Mindfulness in Action: How Honoring Our Pace Leads Us Towards Empowerment

As a new volunteer with Back 2 Youth, I had the recent privilege of watching its mindfulness-based curriculum come alive in real life. On my very first day of camp, we visited the Salem Ropes Course — a place filled with challenges of varying heights, each designed to test both physical and mental limits.

Two courses, in particular, stand out in my memory. The first was a dueling course…