In the Montcrest School Middle School program, we are working to build community culture and foster prosocial habits such as gratitude, empathy, and awareness of others. This is taught through a combination of a strengths approach, mindfulness practices, and plain old conversation. At Montcrest School, we have also recently committed to using The Third Path to guide and inform our teaching practice, and we are working to nurture relationships in our classes, among our faculty and staff, and within our school community. With the restrictions due to the Covid pandemic, we are, as a staff, trying to meet the challenges using our own strengths as teachers to see and to lift up each other. My goal is to transfer that to my students through strengths awareness and deploy it to build class culture and connection. Through explicit teaching, small moments, and modeling, I am working towards building greater resilience and agency in the face of our physical and social limitations. I would love to share with all who work with children a variety of activities that I have tried (and am still trying!) to help my students learn about being a little kinder with themselves and with others, as citizens of our schools, families, and the larger world. This will be a hands and minds-on workshop, and there will be time for questions and sharing ideas.