Last week the ROCK Center spent time with our friends from The Quality Life Center. We shared the book “I walk with Vanessa” and had fun talking about how we can walk with Kindness each day, including with our pets! #FGCU #TheQ #IWalkWithVanessa
Roots of Compassion and Kindness (ROCK) at FGCU
教育管理组织
Ft. Myers，Florida 805 位关注者
ROCK promotes compassion, kindness, and empathy through education, action, and research.
关于我们
ROCK promotes compassion, kindness, and empathy through education, action, and research. Launched in 2020, our instructors teach FGCU students about compassion, using the best insights from psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists, and scholars from many disciplines. Students then apply what they have learned by going into local classrooms to share what they know through interactive activities: painting rocks, planting gardens, journaling, role playing, engaging in readers' theater, leading guided discussions, and spreading goodwill. Our program fosters positive academic and behavioral outcomes through strategies of empathy and engagement. We are currently partnering with four schools to grow compassion at the roots.
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https://www.fgcu.edu/rock
Roots of Compassion and Kindness (ROCK) at FGCU的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 教育管理组织
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Ft. Myers，Florida
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2020
- 领域
- Education、Community outreach、Nonprofit、Empathy、Compassion、Kindness、Professional Development、Compassionate grading、Leadership、Self-compassion、Self-care和K-12 Education
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10501 FGCU Blvd.
US，Florida，Ft. Myers，33965
Roots of Compassion and Kindness (ROCK) at FGCU员工
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This week the ROCK Center attended the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s National Conference on Youth Justice. The conference included youth and families, leading researchers, and other stakeholders from across the U.S. who are working to transform juvenile justice.?Over 2,500 attendees participated in 72 workshops all aimed at “Shaping the Next 50 Years”?in juvenile justice.?We left feeling hopeful and energized about all the great work that is taking place in our communities to support youth. ?#NCMEC @NCMEC @MelissaMcGee @OJJDP
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Last week, ROCK had the privilege of celebrating World Kindness Day on campus with our amazing community! ?? A huge thank you to everyone who came out to participate and to those who helped make this day a success. Your kindness and support make all the difference! Let's keep spreading positivity and making the world a better place, one small act of kindness at a time. ?? ?? ?? #WorldKindnessDay #Community #KindnessInAction #ROCK #Gratitude #WingsUp
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This past Saturday #FGCU hosted Make a Difference Day where hundreds of students participated in service-learning projects with local non-profits. The ROCK Center received help from our amazing students to help us prepare for our upcoming World Kindness Day Event (November 13th). Students also helped with projects for the Pace Center for Girls and Tice Elementary School. As we told our students on Saturday, the ROCK Center is grateful for all their support as well as our FGCU Service-Learning & Civic Engagement partners! Wings Up!
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Hey, Eagles! We are thrilled to inform everyone about the Kindfulness Grants presented by the ROCK Center at FGCU! This is a wonderful chance for all Florida Gulf Coast personnel—students, faculty, and staff—to come together and share innovative ideas that promote kindness and compassion on our campus. If you have a creative project in mind that can strengthen our university community connection, don’t hesitate to apply! The application process is simple, so submit your ideas today. Let’s make our campus an even more welcoming place together! Don’t miss out—apply now and be a part of spreading kindness at FGCU! Applications have a quick turnaround, so please get creative and apply today! #FGCU #WingsUp?#RootsOfCompassionAndKindness?#Kindfulness
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Earlier this month, the ROCK Center welcomed back our Tice students and families who attended our ROCK Reads after school literacy program in partnership with Lee County Career and Adult Education?@LisaGumm?@WendyChapman, the FutureMakers and Collaboratory. Students listened to Maria Had a Little Llama read by Dr. Meg Norcia and Barbara Peterson, our ESL friend. Families made their own llama decorations and even had llaman-ade to drink for snack time! Our FGCU students, led by Dr. Michelle Byrne from the College of Education, also had fun reading literacy projects for our families. At the end, through our partnership with BelieveNBooks, the students and their families left with a backpack FULL of books. What an amazing evening!! #CollaboratorySwfl?#Collaboratory?#FutureMakers?#BelieveNBooks?#LeeCountyCareerAndAdultEducation
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Education and Community Service at Florida Gulf Coast University
Hi ROCK friends! This week we are welcoming our newest ROCK Star, Joy Paluska Heaps, who will serve as the ROCK Center’s Program Coordinator. In this role, Joy will manage the Center’s day-to-day administrative activities and help grow our Center under the leadership and vision of our Director, Dr. Maria Roca, and our Board. Joy has over two decades of experience working in the non-profit and federal sectors, including service in two Presidential Administrations and at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Joy is a graduate of the City University of New York School of Law and the University of Iowa. She brings a steadfast commitment to learning from and serving her community and is looking forward to spreading kindness, compassion, and empathy, through her work at the ROCK Center! #FGCU
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We put the "active" in "active learning" today with our wonderful The Immokalee Foundation (TIF) campers yesterday! Together we demystified communication, learned empathy skills, practiced teamwork, and applied our knowledge to social media. Thank you to our wonderful Immokalee students, their advocates, Florida Gulf Coast University, and our Roots of Compassion and Kindness (ROCK) at FGCU faculty (Andrea Fortin and Megan A. Norcia) and student buddies (Alyssa and Katie, you rock!)! #activelearning #communicationskills
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A fitting Wisdom Wednesday quote for our strategic planning day! Thanks, Roots of Compassion and Kindness (ROCK) at FGCU student social media team Juliana and Taylor, for the inspo! #kindnessmatters
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Gamifying the search for common ground, playing Kindness Charades, and painting rocks for others kept us busy with our friends at the Quality Life Center last week! Have a great end of the year, friends! #kindness #kindnessrocks
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