Mindfulness in Schools
At school, in our experience mindfulness is best presented as a secular discipline from which pupils benefit in many ways. Click here for what they have said about the course. The video below gives an introduction to mindfulness in schools.
For some, lessons in mindfulness are appreciated simply as a way to help them relax and be calm. However, for many the benefits extend well beyond this, helping them cope with exam stress, get to sleep, manage anger, deal with difficult relationships, improve their performance in sports, or simply handle the increasingly stressful pace and pressure of adolescence.
The benefits of teaching mindfulness to adolescents were explored and confirmed in research between Tonbridge School and the Cambridge University Well-being Institue in 2007. Click MA Dissertation 2009 for more about this.
