SESSION ONE The actual Mindfulness practices begin with the students. We get settled in a beautiful classroom where as soon as we start they ask to sit on the floor. So we sit in a circle [...]
SESSION TWO We begin by summarising our previous session: what did we do? what for? what did we create? what for? what did we talk about? what for? Students give answers: we were [...]
SESSION THREE The boys and girls seem quite familiar with the practices. They are aware of what we are «building the attention muscle» for. The day begins with a new greeting [...]
SESSION FOUR We are right half-way through the training at the moment. I have to say today was s-p-e-c-i-a-l. The students are already familiar with the four different greetings: some ask for a [...]
SESSION FIVE When dealing with difficult emotions like Anger we can learn about ourselves. We can learn how to recognise the feeling in our bodies, identify the kind of feeling it is, or [...]
SESSION SIX The students seem happy and excited with the Monday sessions. They like Mindfulness and have all sort of new questions today … about Miss Frog, Jon Kabat-Zin, and [...]
SESSION SEVEN We are on our very last Mindfulness sessions now. In fact, this could actually be considered the last session as next time we will have a special guest joining us… Stay [...]
SESSION EIGHT To close up our eight-week program and inspired by Eline Snel’s book, a special guest gets invited to join us today: here is a real prompt!! The children are running [...]
On completion of this INTEF training course on emotion regulation and social media we have been asked to create activities to raise awareness on Healthcare and Online safety. The name Dr Walter [...]
This is a complementary note on how we can work with the transition of emotions in the activity «the marshmallow experiment«. Observing the rise and fall of moods after receiving (or not) Likes [...]
