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8 week class dates: April 4, 11,18,25, May 2,9,16,23,      Spaces limited; for students 5-7th grade THE LOVE4LIFE PROGRAM Delivers easy to use interactive mindful tools to help students think, act and live with compassionate and confident choices for increased success in their life outlook, happiness, school, career, personal friendships and other relationships. SELF-AWARENESS: Recognizing one’s emotions, thoughts, and strengths leading to confidence and optimism; be mindful SOCIAL-AWARENESS: Ability to empathize, be open-minded and recognize how/when to ask for help from others SELF-MANAGEMENT: Ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors with stress, anger, motivation and achieving personal and academic goals RELATIONSHIP SKILLS: Ability to create healthy happy relationships through communication, listening, cooperation, respect and conflict resolution RESPONSIBLE DECISION MAKING: Ability to make healthy respectful and ethical choices for self/ others What is SEL? SEL is short for social and emotional learning. Per CASEL definition, its “the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.” Today, academic performance is not enough to stay successful, happy, healthy and optimistic in today’s competitive and stressful world! And, with numerous research and reports supporting the need for SEL, educators across the country strongly agree that teaching these life skills positively impact students’ academic performance as well as enforce critical character traits for a child’s success in life. (Casel.org) But, do you wonder if your child is being taught these necessary social and emotional life skills to lead an optimistic, conscientious, confident and compassionate life? Is your child equipped to persevere, be authentic and successfully manage emotions and relationships? Well, if your family is like most; very busy with academics and sports that sometimes family talk of critical topics like respect, gratitude, integrity happiness self-acceptance, open minded and responsibility seem to fall through the cracks. PS I Love You can help! REGISTER your child today for Love4Life’s invite-only 10 week Social and Emotional Intelligence Program. Give Life Skills! www.Love4Life.Life When: Mondays/April 4th – May 23rd Time: 3:30pm-4:45pm Where: MB Library Ages: 5th-7th graders Cost: $200 for 8 classes Bring: a snack and water Guests: Kerri Walsh, Mayor Burton, AJ Delagarza (schedules may change)

8 week class dates: April 4, 11,18,25, May 2,9,16,23,      Spaces limited; for students 5-7th grade THE LOVE4LIFE PROGRAM Delivers easy to use interactive mindful tools to help students think, act and live with compassionate and confident choices for increased success in their life outlook, happiness, school, career, personal friendships and other relationships. SELF-AWARENESS: Recognizing one’s emotions, thoughts, and strengths leading to confidence and optimism; be mindful SOCIAL-AWARENESS: Ability to empathize, be open-minded and recognize how/when to ask for help from others SELF-MANAGEMENT: Ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors with stress, anger, motivation and achieving personal and academic goals RELATIONSHIP SKILLS: Ability to create healthy happy relationships through communication, listening, cooperation, respect and conflict resolution RESPONSIBLE DECISION MAKING: Ability to make healthy respectful and ethical choices for self/ others What is SEL? SEL is short for social and emotional learning. Per CASEL definition, its “the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.” Today, academic performance is not enough to stay successful, happy, healthy and optimistic in today’s competitive and stressful world! And, with numerous research and reports supporting the need for SEL, educators across the country strongly agree that teaching these life skills positively impact students’ academic performance as well as enforce critical character traits for a child’s success in life. (Casel.org) But, do you wonder if your child is being taught these necessary social and emotional life skills to lead an optimistic, conscientious, confident and compassionate life? Is your child equipped to persevere, be authentic and successfully manage emotions and relationships? Well, if your family is like most; very busy with academics and sports that sometimes family talk of critical topics like respect, gratitude, integrity happiness self-acceptance, open minded and responsibility seem to fall through the cracks. PS I Love You can help! REGISTER your child today for Love4Life’s invite-only 10 week Social and Emotional Intelligence Program. Give Life Skills! www.Love4Life.Life When: Mondays/April 4th – May 23rd Time: 3:30pm-4:45pm Where: MB Library Ages: 5th-7th graders Cost: $200 for 8 classes Bring: a snack and water Guests: Kerri Walsh, Mayor Burton, AJ Delagarza (schedules may change)

Do you have a digital camera and want to know how to get the best photos of family, friends, get-togethers and parties? Professional wedding, event, and food photographer, JP Cordero, will teach a 2 hour clinic on all of the above April 26, at Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach. The clinic will include a short lecture and lots of hands on photography, demos and activities.  instagram: @shutterStylesPhoto

Are you ready to meet face-to-face with the best and brightest personal transformation and buisness authors in the world? Then look no further than Inside the Mind of an Author, my new speaker series and meet-up in Los Angeles. On Monday, April 25, 2016, I invite you to spend the evening with TEDx speaker and author Light Watkins (The Inner Gym: A 30 Day Workout for Strengthening Happiness). Light lecutes internationally on how to find happiness and live stress-free in today’s moden world.    What people are saying about “Inside the Mind of an Author”:   There are two ways to participate at the event, one is attending the VIP dinner, an conncted and intimate experience with the author (limited), and the other is attending the networking event and program. Either way, I look forward to seeing you at the event! Alicia 

Toddler Storytimes will begin Tuesday January 12th and Wednesday January 13th at 10:15 and 10:45 AM. This series will run for 10 weeks, every Tuesday and Wednesday until March 15th and 16th.Children, ages 0 to 3, and their parents and caregivers are invited for songs, rhymes, stories and movement. In the best interest of the enjoyment of the children and families at our storytimes and equal opportunity to attend, the series will have a limited attendance and families will be admitted on a first come, first served basis. On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings tickets will be distributed outside the library beginning at 10 AM. For more information please contact the children’s librarians.

8 week class dates: April 4, 11,18,25, May 2,9,16,23,      Spaces limited; for students 5-7th grade THE LOVE4LIFE PROGRAM Delivers easy to use interactive mindful tools to help students think, act and live with compassionate and confident choices for increased success in their life outlook, happiness, school, career, personal friendships and other relationships. SELF-AWARENESS: Recognizing one’s emotions, thoughts, and strengths leading to confidence and optimism; be mindful SOCIAL-AWARENESS: Ability to empathize, be open-minded and recognize how/when to ask for help from others SELF-MANAGEMENT: Ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors with stress, anger, motivation and achieving personal and academic goals RELATIONSHIP SKILLS: Ability to create healthy happy relationships through communication, listening, cooperation, respect and conflict resolution RESPONSIBLE DECISION MAKING: Ability to make healthy respectful and ethical choices for self/ others What is SEL? SEL is short for social and emotional learning. Per CASEL definition, its “the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.” Today, academic performance is not enough to stay successful, happy, healthy and optimistic in today’s competitive and stressful world! And, with numerous research and reports supporting the need for SEL, educators across the country strongly agree that teaching these life skills positively impact students’ academic performance as well as enforce critical character traits for a child’s success in life. (Casel.org) But, do you wonder if your child is being taught these necessary social and emotional life skills to lead an optimistic, conscientious, confident and compassionate life? Is your child equipped to persevere, be authentic and successfully manage emotions and relationships? Well, if your family is like most; very busy with academics and sports that sometimes family talk of critical topics like respect, gratitude, integrity happiness self-acceptance, open minded and responsibility seem to fall through the cracks. PS I Love You can help! REGISTER your child today for Love4Life’s invite-only 10 week Social and Emotional Intelligence Program. Give Life Skills! www.Love4Life.Life When: Mondays/April 4th – May 23rd Time: 3:30pm-4:45pm Where: MB Library Ages: 5th-7th graders Cost: $200 for 8 classes Bring: a snack and water Guests: Kerri Walsh, Mayor Burton, AJ Delagarza (schedules may change)

Join Historian and Heritage Conservation Consultant Alison Rose Jefferson, PhD, for the third in a series of monthly Community Interactive Forums highlighting significant events (recent or from the distant past) that influenced or continue to change our way of life, culture, beliefs, practices, and values as a coastal-dwelling community. *Sponsored by the MB Senior Citizens Resources Committee, MB Parks & Recreation Older Adults Program, MB-Cultural Heritage Conservancy, MB Historical Society, and Manhattan Beach Library