Welcome to the world of the modern emerging adult (young adults roughly nineteen to thirty-three.) Some young adult rites of passage are timeless, like getting your first apartment, navigating the world of work, and finding love and community. Yet we live in an age of rapid change. The 21st century young adult is a pioneer of the digital age, in need of unique coping skills and unique mentoring.
Mindfulness for Emerging Adults is a groundbreaking resource for Emerging Adults and their mentors, including teachers, employers, family members and health care professionals.
In Mindfulness for Emerging Adults, readers will be introduced to Author Donna Torney’s Center Points model for well-being – a tool for optimizing adult development in the digital age that includes exercise to help find:
Learn how master to daily rhythms, including diet, sleep, exercise, time in nature, and balanced use of technology.
Learn how to manage emotions, how to feel safe and accepted by making healthy connections with friends, family, partners, and community.
Learn how to foster positive brain activity, decreasing distractions, cultivate thoughtful action.
Get clear about your heart’s deepest longings through values exploration. Get on the path to values-based work, love, and community connection.
Finding balance, belonging, focus, and meaning in the digital age.
Throughout Mindfulness for Emerging Adults, readers will hear young adult voices through true stories of universal young adult struggles, like finding intimacy, a trustworthy community, managing finances, discovering a fruitful and worthwhile career path, managing uncertainty, and difficult emotions.
Stories to help mentors respond productively
Throughout Mindfulness for Emerging Adults, family members, healthcare professionals and educators will find sections called Thoughts for mentors – highlighted segments designed to help mentors remember their own young adult journey and foster productive communication with emerging adults.
Even in the best of circumstance, setbacks are a normal part of the human experience. Knowing how to ask for help is an important life-skill. In Mindfulness for Emerging Adults, mentors and young adults will find resources, both traditional and mindfulness-based to help bounce back from setbacks.
We are living in a time of accelerated change and global competition. Isn’t it counterintuitive to ask emerging adults to slow down? In Mindfulness for Emerging Adults, you will find personal motivation to practice mindfulness. Whether your goal is communicating with your boss or feeling more personal peace, the Center Points exercises are for you. Learn how to get more done with less effort, and view the world, and yourself, with more kindness and compassion.
“This wonderful book offers vital, timely wisdom and tools for young adults and those who love them, and for anyone who wants to live a more present, engaged, and meaningful life. That means this is a book for everyone.”
– Kristi Nelson, Executive Director, A Network for Grateful Living