The purpose of this blog is mainly to teach students some tools and strategies to manage stress. Mindfulness is one of them. But what is Mindfulness and what are the benefits of [...]
Letting go is the way to freedom In Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat Zinn talks about these attitudes to cultivate and bring to life, which can be tremendously healing: non-judging, [...]
GENERAL: Council of Europe, (2001) CEFRL: Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CUP Council of Europe, (2018) CEFRL: Companion Volume with New Descriptors Alba, C. (2018) El [...]
MAY YOU HAVE A NICE DAY On Valentine’s Day we are all invited to show Love of any kind really, don’t you agree? After all, love is in the air! When I have done this activity in class I have [...]
Give thanks and eat pie Most students will have heard of Thanksgiving and most probably watched movies related to this celebration. They would know about eating turkey and the traditional [...]
Sing along! I am sharing today this song that was once part of the Christmas workshops prepared by both my group and myself. The song chosen for this workshop was Do they know it’s [...]
I find this is a nice and easy way to close up an activity. Like favourite end-of-term dynamics, lesson or anecdote. End-of-course positives and negatives, or proposals and suggestions. Also good [...]
Which one are you? This is an activity I experienced myself as a participant in Positive Discipline + Training Courses. The group dynamics had an impact on us participants when we [...]
With the update of the CEFR bringing new referential areas like mediation and the rise of a new emerging concept of what it is to be part of a team or what it is to get your ideas across, the [...]
someone in your family, someone you get on really well with, someone quite unusual, eccentric or annoying, someone you admire When it comes to family and friends students are always [...]
