I am an Educational Strategist & Eco Mindfulness Guide.
I offer insightful and practical acts of nature-based mindfulness tailored for busy professionals. My approach is designed to seamlessly integrate into your demanding schedules, bringing a sense of calm and environmental connection to your daily life.
I serve busy professionals and adult students navigating the complexities of modern life. They are individuals committed to their education and work while harboring a deep-seated concern for the environment. My clients are acutely aware of the challenges posed by technology and its impact on the natural world and are seeking sustainable, mindful practices to integrate into their hectic lives. They value personal growth and environmental stewardship and are driven by a desire to live more harmoniously with nature, even in a digitalized world.
They seek guidance and strategies to achieve:
- A sustainable balance between their professional, educational, and personal lives.
- A deeper connection with the environment, understanding its profound impact on their well-being.
- The ability to make impactful, eco-conscious choices that do not compromise their professional and educational goals.
Through our collaboration, clients find renewed energy, a stronger sense of purpose, and practical ways to integrate eco-consciousness into their daily routines.
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Practical and Informal -- I split my time between New York City and Paris, France. I am a trained spiritual director. I teach research process and methodology at New York University. I take an annual week of solitary retreat and silence to hike the Camino de Santiago (usually along an extended path in France), and I love to read fantasy novels while writing poetry about our engagement with the environment. Voila for my humanity!
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Email - jeffrey@jeffreykeefer.com
Website - https://jeffreykeefer.com/
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I am an Educational Strategist & Eco Mindfulness Guide.
I offer insightful and practical acts of nature-based mindfulness tailored for busy professionals. My approach is designed to seamlessly integrate into your demanding schedules, bringing a sense of calm and environmental connection to your dai…
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Most important? Everything is optional 😄 Skip lessons & modules that aren't interesting to you!
You're welcome to simply come to a Q&A call, and tell me your situation (briefly) and ask me my recommended next step :)
As a teacher and autistic person I feel this video is mindblowing! I have always been a linear rule follower, and to understand this - that everything is optional, is a game-changer to me! Who would know I would learn something so fantastic at 65 years of age! I thank you!
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How to share someone's IG story (@mention them!) and appreciate someone who shared yours 😊
Why you might want to share other people's IG posts as part of your Stories: It shows your audience that you're a curator of interesting content! Some of your audience might start interesting conversations with you in DM's. It creates gratitude for the person whose post you're sharing. Potentially creates a new connection / nurtures connection with that person. You can easily share someone else's IG post as one of your Stories by doing this: Just below the post you want to share, there's a paper-airplane icon -- click on it Then at the bottom of the screen click "Add to story" Be sure to add an @mention of their username, so that (if they want to) it's easy for them to reshare your share :) Any other tips about sharing people's stories, comment below 🙏🏼
How does this work if we share a post to our posts themselves and not just to our Stories?
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🤩 Whose IG presence do you admire... and why?
As part of our co-learning, let's share below some effective ways to use Instagram, by commenting with any examples! When you share the example, also tell us why you think it's effective or resonates with you. If you see no comments below, and no ability to comment, first log into this course.
I think this is a fascinating question, "Whose IG presence do you admire... and why?" I am not sure if anybody else can resonate with this, but I really do not use social media, so cannot say I really follow anybody on it, including on Instagram.
I think back to what George has suggested over the years, about focusing on our own work and contributions and how our own authentic voice will ultimately be found (yes, I know that social media may be the means for outreach), and it may be helpful to learn from others without getting swept up into them. I am prone to comparisons, and I think if I spent a couple of hours scrolling through social media, I would likely need weeks of detox. I can say I really understand how young girls (per the research) are especially susceptible to negative self-perceptions from scrolling Instagram.
All this to say it is helpful seeing what others here find helpful as I would not know how to see "good" authentic examples in any other way as I do not have the network for this otherwise. Seeing some of the examples that resonate above are helping for me.
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Stabilizing your walking videos / selfie sticks
Newer phone cameras have video stabilization built into the software. Try walking and recording and see if the background looks smooth or bumpy. Example of video that is using stabilization software Example of video that uses selfie stick for less bumpiness Example of video that uses neither (thank goodness I was barely walking at all) Hardware that helps stabilize... Selfie sticks (cheap option - good enough for most people) Phone stabilizers (more expensive and pro) Cheapest: use your arm and it'll get stronger ;-) Or how about stand in one place and slowly pan around if the background is beautiful? Here again is the outdoors video I made about outdoors videos ;-)
I find using my iPhone on a selfie stick works quite well outdoors or just about anywhere.
Do you not have issues with wind making noise in the recordings?
Are you making videos outdoors? My tips...
Click here for my tips on that Additional tips re: stabilizing your video
Nice. Also using a good audio system, see my comments on the audio. It could remove the sound in the background, like you have with the cars in this video.
I have found that taking or leading 2-hour work retreats is a wonderful opportunity to focus. I am not terribly fond of the randomness of working with people on FocusMate, as I find being paired with somebody I do not know with a video on for an hour or so to be awkward. George’s space here for Work Retreats feels much safer and more aligned with my approach to work.