Languages understood: |
English, German, French, Dutch |
| With which level of education are you involved? |
Primary education |
| What discipline do you teach (mainly)? |
N.v.t. |
| Does your school, college or faculty teach for a specific discipline or is the education more general? |
General education. |
Are you yourself working with pupils/students or are you otherwise involved in education, (e.g. educational policy)? |
Other: headteacher of a primary school |
| 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? |
Varies widely. |
| Can you describe briefly what you are doing with your pupils/students to integrate mindfulness in your educational work? |
I don't work with the pupils anymore. I practice to be a mindful headteacher, which often is not the case. That is my main practice. and in a beginning stage, I organise workshops and trainings for my team in order to work on stress reduction. I don't use words like mindfulness. My team is very critical. I talk about stressreduction but not about the buddhist background. With some really interested people I tell more about my inspiration.
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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? |
I am looking for other people to build a network, to find a way to make mindfulness more common in (primary) schools.I like to exchange experiences and to develop programmes for children and teachers, because I believe that teachers should be a role model. It is not a matter of a program only. Theachers, so Thay once said, should be dharmateachers. |
| Have you noticed or heard of any changes in the behaviour of your pupils/students? |
Not applicable. |
| What is the base of the mindfulness practise you are using in your educational work? |
Buddhist based. |
