Scarlett Lewis announcing Choose Love Awareness Month.
Choose Love Awareness Month will kick off on February 1, 2023, for a month long celebration of Love-in-Action! Each week will focus on the Choose Love Formula pillars: courage, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion-in-action. Benefits of each character value, including ways to incorporate these essential life skills and tools into every day situations, will be on our website, social media, blog, and newsletters.
Choose Love programs offer the solutions that are desperately needed in schools today. More than 80 percent of U.S. public schools report the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted student behavior and socio-emotional development, according to National Center for Education Statistics. Specifically, respondents attributed increased incidents of classroom disruptions from student misconduct (56 percent), rowdiness outside of the classroom (49 percent), acts of disrespect towards teachers and staff (48 percent), and prohibited use of electronic devices (42 percent) to the COVID-19 pandemic and its lingering effects.
Choose Love gives children the skills and tools they need to have healthy connections and manage their emotions. It’s a proactive and preventative mental health initiative that teaches students:
How to get along
How to have healthy and positive relationships
How to have deep and meaningful connections
Skills and tools for resilience
Emotional management
Conflict resolution
“We celebrate Choose Love and the benefits of character development and social and emotional learning all year long, but February has been officially designated Choose Love Awareness Month. We welcome everyone — students, educators, families, and communities around the world — to learn and share the Choose Love Formula,” said Scarlett Lewis, Chief Movement Officer, Choose Love Movement.
Throughout the month, Lewis will create short videos on how each of the Choose Love Formula pillars will make your life more fulfilling. “When we mindfully practice the Choose Love Formula and model the behavior that can positively impact those around us daily, we can make the world a safer, more peaceful and loving place,” said Lewis.
Our goal is to get our Choose Love community to take action, and help us promote the Choose Love Formula, reach more students, and help more people learn our essential life skills.
Ways to Participate and Help Grow Awareness of our Movement:
Tell three people about Choose Love. Ask your school’s administrators and teachers if they Choose Love!
Sponsor a Choose Love Awareness Month gift basket for a class, school, or a district. Gift a Kit HERE.
Choose Love Awareness Month Kickoff Event for Kids
New this year, Join Scarlett on Friday, February 3 from 2-2:30PM as we celebrate Choose Love Awareness Month with our Love-In-Action theme. ‘Have a Lot of Fun’ with Scarlett as she talks about Choosing Love and announces our artwork contest.
Register for the free event and join us live. We encourage teachers to tune in with students.
How To Turn Anxiety Into Positive Action with Scarlett Lewis
Scarlett Lewis will be hosting a parent and educator workshop on Monday, February 27, 2023 from 7-8PM EST. Scarlett will be discussing inspiring ways to turn our children’s and student’s anxiety into positive action by using the Choose Love message and formula every day in your classroom, homes and communities. Register for this free parent event.
Love In Action Artwork Contest
This year we will be holding an artwork contest on how to use the Choose Love Formula to create positive experiences. Select artwork will be featured on social media, the Choose Love website, and in promotions.
Choose Love Awareness Month Toolkit
A toolkit will be available for educators and families with resources to help celebrate Choose Love all month. The toolkit contains fun activities, materials, and artwork contest information.
Stay tuned for more about Choose Love Awareness Month.
The Choose Love Movement is a community-led movement offering free character social emotional programming to help people take their personal power back by thoughtfully responding to any situation or circumstance.
Nearly 11,000 schools have registered with Choose Love. Over 3.5 million people from all 50 states and DC, and from 120 countries have accessed our materials. It has also been translated into multiple languages.
Its signature program, Choose Love for Schools™, is a comprehensive, no cost, character social and emotional development program for Pre-K through 12th grades, designed to teach students, educators, and staff how to choose love in any circumstance thereby creating a safer, more connected school culture.
Scarlett’s chapter, “Healing Love,” shares the story of how she lost her son in a horrific tragedy and was able to overcome the pain and anger and experience healing through forgiveness.
In this New York-Times bestseller, Scarlett tells her story of how she created a worldwide Movement to Choose Love and encourages everyone to be kind, to be grateful, to forgive, and to uncover the courage we all have within us.
This powerful best-selling book recounts the captivating life story of Yannick Kabuguza, a Choose Love Ambassador, who endured great pain and tragedy as a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.
Lavin focuses on the indomitable human spirit and how Yannick forgave those responsible for his disfigurement and the death of his family members and healed himself through gratitude and compassion. The book includes how Lavin established a deep connection with Scarlett and the Choose Love Movement.
This book helps readers move from their own “dark night of the soul” and into a brighter future. This book plots the path of healing and flourishing in six words: Why bother? Lament. Hope. Lead. Persevere. Jordan shares wit and wisdom gathered from both her own life as an innovation expert to the teachings of great leaders in such diverse locations as Scarlett Lewis in Sandy Hook, Connecticut to the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo. These leaders were ordinary people until life pushed them to its edge. In their darkest moments, they reached for the further shore.
This book features a wide selection of stories and insights into Scarlett’s story is featured in Chapter VI, Renew the Face of the Earth: A Call to Love. The stories in this book offer readers a book of wisdom to inspire during hard times and guide them in finding the light in any crisis.
Alex Woodard weaves his own journey through true stories, including Scarlett’s experience of losing Jesse, as he travels from the congested confines of Southern California to the wide open wild skies of Southern Idaho.
Scarlett’s letter to Jesse is included along with songs she and Alex wrote together about the letter.
In the chapter, Jesse in the Sky, Scarlett shares her story of losing her son in the Sandy Hook tragedy. Scarlett’s story is one of 101 true stories of amazing coincidences, answered prayers, awesome charity, and love that show miracles and good happen every day, giving hope whenever people need it most. This is a book of stories about powerful hope, wondrous connections, divine intervention, and answered prayers.
Scarlett’s story is one of 101 miraculous stories featured in this book that shares real people’s stories about their incredible, personal angel experiences of faith, divine intervention, and answered prayers.
The stories reflect on hope, healing, and help from angels.
In Chapter 6, Growth and Protection, of Bruce Lipton’s 10th anniversary edition of The Biology of Belief, the author shares Scarlett’s story to explain how people can heal through the power of love.
Dana Liesegang’s riveting memoir details how she was sexually assaulted at age 19, thrown off a cliff and left for dead, and was paralyzed. That didn’t stop her from forgiving her attacker. Dana harnessed her inner resilience to survive and overcome and the power of forgiveness to set her free. In Chapter 21, Forgiveness, Dana shares how Scarlett inspired her to let go of her painful burden by forgiving her attacker and setting forth on a path to healing.
This book captures the thoughts, feelings, emotions, and views of four men. Men from different backgrounds and circumstances who find themselves connected through their stories; their lives within the prison system. This book is a collective display of their artistry; the canvas for their voices, both separate and united, on their pasts, present and futures. It amplifies and sheds light on the encumbrance their sentences bear on their lives, the lives of their loved ones, and the world around us.
Improved ability to express oneself and one’s feelings
Increased self-awareness
Willingness to try difficult tasks
Forgiveness
Scientifically Proven Benefits
Healthier relationships and deeper connections
Better emotional self-regulation
Less aggression and anger
Better able to handle personal/social issues that arise
Improved resilience
Improved decision-making skills
Heightened self-management
Gratitude
Scientifically Proven Benefits
Positive attitude towards self and others
Improved attitude about school and learning
Showing appreciation and kindness towards self and others
Increased mindfulness
Ability to see other perspectives and show empathy
Compassion in Action
Scientifically Proven Benefits
Enhanced connections and relationships
Able to respond in a loving manner
More caring and concern shown to others
Improved social skills
Social and Moral Awareness
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Scarlett Lewis announcing Choose Love Awareness Month.
Choose Love Awareness Month will kick off on February 1, 2023, for a month long celebration of Love-in-Action! Each week will focus on the Choose Love Formula pillars: courage, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion-in-action. Benefits of each character value, including ways to incorporate these essential life skills and tools into every day situations, will be on our website, social media, blog, and newsletters.
Choose Love programs offer the solutions that are desperately needed in schools today. More than 80 percent of U.S. public schools report the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted student behavior and socio-emotional development, according to National Center for Education Statistics. Specifically, respondents attributed increased incidents of classroom disruptions from student misconduct (56 percent), rowdiness outside of the classroom (49 percent), acts of disrespect towards teachers and staff (48 percent), and prohibited use of electronic devices (42 percent) to the COVID-19 pandemic and its lingering effects.
Choose Love gives children the skills and tools they need to have healthy connections and manage their emotions. It’s a proactive and preventative mental health initiative that teaches students:
How to get along
How to have healthy and positive relationships
How to have deep and meaningful connections
Skills and tools for resilience
Emotional management
Conflict resolution
“We celebrate Choose Love and the benefits of character development and social and emotional learning all year long, but February has been officially designated Choose Love Awareness Month. We welcome everyone — students, educators, families, and communities around the world — to learn and share the Choose Love Formula,” said Scarlett Lewis, Chief Movement Officer, Choose Love Movement.
Throughout the month, Lewis will create short videos on how each of the Choose Love Formula pillars will make your life more fulfilling. "When we mindfully practice the Choose Love Formula and model the behavior that can positively impact those around us daily, we can make the world a safer, more peaceful and loving place," said Lewis.
Our goal is to get our Choose Love community to take action, and help us promote the Choose Love Formula, reach more students, and help more people learn our essential life skills.
Ways to Participate and Help Grow Awareness of our Movement:
Tell three people about Choose Love. Ask your school's administrators and teachers if they Choose Love!
Sponsor a Choose Love Awareness Month gift basket for a class, school, or a district. Gift a Kit HERE.
Choose Love Awareness Month Kickoff Event for Kids
New this year, Join Scarlett on Friday, February 3 from 2-2:30PM as we celebrate Choose Love Awareness Month with our Love-In-Action theme. ‘Have a Lot of Fun’ with Scarlett as she talks about Choosing Love and announces our artwork contest.
Register for the free event and join us live. We encourage teachers to tune in with students.
How To Turn Anxiety Into Positive Action with Scarlett Lewis
Scarlett Lewis will be hosting a parent and educator workshop on Monday, February 27, 2023 from 7-8PM EST. Scarlett will be discussing inspiring ways to turn our children's and student's anxiety into positive action by using the Choose Love message and formula every day in your classroom, homes and communities. Register for this free parent event.
Love In Action Artwork Contest
This year we will be holding an artwork contest on how to use the Choose Love Formula to create positive experiences. Select artwork will be featured on social media, the Choose Love website, and in promotions.
Choose Love Awareness Month Toolkit
A toolkit will be available for educators and families with resources to help celebrate Choose Love all month. The toolkit contains fun activities, materials, and artwork contest information.
Stay tuned for more about Choose Love Awareness Month.
The Choose Love Movement is a community-led movement offering free character social emotional programming to help people take their personal power back by thoughtfully responding to any situation or circumstance.
Nearly 11,000 schools have registered with Choose Love. Over 3.5 million people from all 50 states and DC, and from 120 countries have accessed our materials. It has also been translated into multiple languages.
Its signature program, Choose Love for Schools™, is a comprehensive, no cost, character social and emotional development program for Pre-K through 12th grades, designed to teach students, educators, and staff how to choose love in any circumstance thereby creating a safer, more connected school culture.
