Languages understood: |
English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish |
| With which level of education are you involved? |
Different / divers levels |
| What discipline do you teach (mainly)? |
Communication |
| Does your school, college or faculty teach for a specific discipline or is the education more general? |
Professional education: teachers, artists, IT-personel, marketeers, office managers. |
Are you yourself working with pupils/students or are you otherwise involved in education, (e.g. educational policy)? |
(mainly) teaching pupils/students. |
| What kind of organisational relation do you have with your educational work? |
(mainly) professional / important source of income. |
| How many years is it since you first started your efforts to integrate mindfulness into your educational work? |
5 |
| On average, what age are the pupils/students with who you are working? |
19 - 21 years |
| Can you describe briefly what you are doing with your pupils/students to integrate mindfulness in your educational work? |
I give full 8-weeks trainings. I use mindful breaks. I share ideas throughout classes. I use mindful yoga in specific project workweeks. I try to communicate from a mindful stance, using the ideas of Marshall Rosenberg (Nonviolent Communication) I have used different exercices in different settings (eg: walking meditation, awareness of breath at beginning of class, awareness of sound in between classes, ...)
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| What is it that would be most helpful to you to (further) improve your work with integrating mindfulness in your educational work, besides deepening your own practice? |
Discuss ideas and results, finding a way to make it seem less 'strange', to make it feel as important as eating, breathing and sleeping .... |
| Have you noticed or heard of any changes in the behaviour of your pupils/students? |
Yes |
| What is the nature of the changes you have noticed in the behaviour of your pupils/students? |
Improved behaviour outside the school environment. More insight in their own possibility to change something in their lives. Feeling more in control. Being able to feel at ease. |
| What is the base of the mindfulness practise you are using in your educational work? |
Secular based. |
