The rising implementation of Mindfulness in education across Europe and America, is showing increasingly beneficial results for students, teachers and the institutions overall.
Studies have shown the impact of Mindfulness on concentration, memory, emotion regulation and social interaction, and its encouraging implications for education. Due to social stress, instant access to information and increasing stimulation from technology, children are showing lower levels of attention and positive social interactions, and higher hyperactivity, drug use and body image issues.
Mindfulness cultivates & nurtures our children's minds
A large emphasis is put on the physical body (diet, exercise, clothes) but often neglects the vulnerabilities ours, and particularly our children´s minds, need addressing. Mindfulness training in attention and awareness provides children with a personal toolbox of skills, which they continue to use throughout life building resilience, autonomy and a healthy awareness of their body and thoughts.
Studies done on schools where Mindfulness programmes have been implemented have shown the students to have:
- ॐ Greater resilience and autonomy
- ॐ Increased attention, memory & focus
- ॐ More empathy and compassion with each other and their teachers
- ॐ Better coping at exam time
- ॐ Better emotion regulation
- ॐ Increased calm and compassion
- ॐ Better overall health & immunity
- ॐ LESS stress, impulsivity, anger and anxiety
Teachers trained in mindfulness also show lower blood pressure, less negative emotion and symptoms of depression, and greater compassion and empathy.
The BBB (Break.Breathe.Begin) Mindfulness Method teaches children to understand Mindfulness and how to use it daily, leading to better attention, learning and memory. It induces a greater sense of resilience, autonomy and calm, decreasing the likelihood of peer pressure, stress or addiction.
Training programs can be tailored to your particular needs. For example:
Implementing Mindfulness In an Education Training Programme
The B.B.B (Break.Breathe.Begin) Mindfulness training programme has two main components
1. Introduction seminar
CHF500 (FREE if signed up to the training program/deducted from cost if signed up after)
- What is Mindfulness?
- Why practice it?
- How to apply B.B.B Mindfulness in your day
- Benefits of implementing mindfulness in educational institutions
2. Implementing Mindfulness in Education Training Package
CHF30 per student enrolled at the school (this reflects the benefit received for each student). Minimum CHF2000, maximum CHF15,000.
This course consists of 2 training sessions to be held a minimum of 4 weeks apart and a maximum of 8:
1st Training Day (2 hours):
- The benefits of Mindfulness for students & teachers
- Creating a Mindfulness programme for yourself – practice what you preach!
- Introducing Mindfulness in the classroom
- Mindfulness in different subjects/disciplines
- Using Mindfulness to calm & centre a classroom
- Creating a 1 week Mindfulness programme for your students
- The pitfalls & issues teachers may encounter
2nd Training Day (2 hours):
4 weeks from 1st training day
- Analysing your own Mindfulness practice
- Simple Mindfulness especially for 2-10 year olds
- Mindfulness for children 10 years old -> university
- Implementing an 8 week mindfulness programme in your classroom
- Further Mindfulness techniques
- Building your students’ tool box & your own
NOTE:
-Teachers must attend ALL three training sessions to receive a certificate of completion.
-The school must provide the space and chairs for all participants and the set-up for a power point presentation.
Results schools have reported from implementing Mindfulness:
- Greater resilience & autonomy
- Increased attention, memory & focus
- Increased empathy and compassion
- Better relationships with each other and their teachers
- Better coping at exam time
- Better emotion regulation
- Increased calm & compassion
- Better overall health & immunity
- LESS stress, impulsivity, anger & anxiety
- Less illness, misbehaviour and bullying
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