Benefits
Mindfulness In Schools
Mindfulness practice gives children the opportunity to settle and calm themselves and develop focus. It builds resilience by helping children manage difficult thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness creates space, changing impulsive reactions to thoughtful responses.Children find it easier to get along with their peers and choose kindness and optimism.
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Mindfulness In Schools
Mindfulness is now taught in thousands of schools around the world due to its effectiveness in transforming the classroom into an optimum learning environment.
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Mindfulness Schools
Mindfulness skills can be developed in very short (2-3 minute) classroom sessions, repeated several times a day, usually during transitions or when the class is particularly restless. The basic skill islearning to listen to a resonant sound (chime, bell), followed by focusing attention on belly breathing, followed by listening again to the sound. Extension mindfulness activities, including basic neuroscience, observation of the senses and social emotional learning are easily incorporated into the daily curriculum. Longer mindfulness lessons are taught in many schools.
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Mindfulness in Schools
Mindfulness instruction in schools “takes advantage of a natural window of opportunity during childhood, when the neural circuitry that allows us to pay attention, calm ourselves and attune to our own and other’s feelings takes shape”. Professor Richard Davidson, founder of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisonsin
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Research findings on Mindfulness in Schools:
• Increases the brain’s executive functions: working memory, planning and organisational skills. This leads to improved academic performance.
• Reduces stress, anxiety and aggression and fosters more peaceful behaviour in classes and playgrounds
• Increases self-awareness, empathy, kindness and pro-social behaviour
• Resilient childrenmore easily bounce back from life’s difficult experiences
What the students say
- “Mindfulness is a great class because you can chill out, relax. It will cool you down and make you less stressed. You should try it if you are mad or sad or just want to feel better. That’s what I do. Try it!”
- “Mindfulness has helped me before homework because it relaxes me so I do a good job with my homework.”
- "Being mindful calms me down when I am angry. It helps me not to get in a big fight because I don’t want to hurt my friends. It also helps me focus on my work.”
- “The mindful seeing practice helped me at school. Now I really look into all four corners of the computer if I don’t understand something, and that’s helped me find my way around.”