Languages understood: |
Dutch, English, German, French |
| With which level of education are you involved? |
High school |
| What discipline do you teach (mainly)? |
Other: painting, drawing, mindfulness meditation |
| Does your school, college or faculty teach for a specific discipline or is the education more general? |
Other: mindfulness |
Are you yourself working with pupils/students or are you otherwise involved in education, (e.g. educational policy)? |
otherwise: teaching mindfulness |
| 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? |
4 |
| On average, what age are the pupils/students with who you are working? |
Variwes widely. |
| Can you describe briefly what you are doing with your pupils/students to integrate mindfulness in your educational work? |
Mindfulness training applicable to the age group, mainly youth and young adults.How to apply mindfulness in your teaching profession. Individual counceling out of mindfulness practise.(www.isvara.nl)
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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? |
Not specified. |
| 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? |
Improvement in selfesteem, stress related to study, making choices, coping with emotions related to difficult situations. People come more in contact with their creative abilities. |
| What is the base of the mindfulness practise you are using in your educational work? |
Buddhist, phenomenological, secular. |
