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Stop. Breathe. Pay attention. “Our mental health and well-being are profoundly affected by where and how we place our attention”. In this enlightening talk, Richard guides through a short mindfulness meditation, and shares his experience of teaching mindfulness in schools. He reveals some of the amazing benefits being mindful can bring to the classroom and inspires the audience with simple ways to bring more awareness to how we respond to our everyday experiences.
Richard Burnett is co-founder of the Mindfulness in Schools Project. With Chris Cullen and Chris O’Neill, Richard wrote the highly-acclaimed 9 week mindfulness course, .b (pronounced dot-b), designed to engage adolescents in the classroom. He is a teacher and Housemaster at Tonbridge School, the first school in the UK to put mindfulness on the curriculum, an event covered by press, TV and radio in early 2010. Since then, thousands of young people have been taught .b in a wide range of educational contexts, from independent girls’ schools like St Pauls to Young People’s Support Services for those excluded from school. .b is now being taught in the UK, USA, Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Thailand. For more information on the Mindfulness in Schools Project go to www.mindfulnessinschools.org
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I am watching this at home because my teacher told us to watch this!
Mindfulness in eating is extremely important too. Paying someone to torture and slaughter an animal and then grabbing a hamburger/chicken sandwich at lunch is NOT mindful. ALL sentient beings want peace. GO Vegan.
One of the best videos i have seen in many years of my life explaining mindfulness in easiest way
Do not participate in this. You are opening yourself up to demonic spirits. If you are a parent, please do not allow your children to participate in this at school. This does not come from God. This is of satan. One of his many deceptions. This is a hindu spiritual practice that does not belong in schools. School is for reading writing math and spelling. Not spiritual things. It should be an optional extra curricular activity separate from school curriculum. Not a mandatory practice or graded school work. I encourage everyone to thoroughly research everything and educate yourself. Do not take anything at face value. God warms us to be stay away from things like this for a reason. He is trying to protect us from danger. Please heed his warning
this bloke was one of my mates house masters
I wonder if we are mindful all the time it means that we have to stop thinking and focus to the sensory. My creativity comes from mind racing and mindfulness disturb it. When I focus on something it involves thinking and developing the thought but trying to be mindful makes me more harder to that process. I may be wrong about mindfulness and I wanna know if it is good tool for all situation.
Thank you for this beautiful talk. I would like to translate it to French for a community of meditation teachers here. Could you please enable community contributions so I can add them? Cheers!
I was beginning to wonder why there are so many psychotic actions by kids getting into the news. It is because we are training their faculties outside the context of moral obligation. We are enabling them to utilize their faculties to full potential without aim, and to be capable of putting it to the use of whatever they decide. It's like if I teach my little brother how to use a gun before ensuring his psychological profile as sound or ensuring that his character is morally upright and dedicated to what is good. Instructing children in harnessing their consciousness as an amoral tool is making them readily weaponizable by anyone who can convince them to obey them – and extremely capable of executing an action for any cause – very good or very bad, without distinction.
This was a very good teaching for me sir as my mind used to wonder too far away. Thank you very much.
Is he the voice from head space?
did anyone translate this talk to hebrew
or arabic ?
This should've been a TED talk !
Yes, I totally agree! More needs to be done to bring mindfulness into schools, and it needs to be inclusive for all abilities. You may be interested in my new book: ‘Mindful Little Yogis: Self-Regulation Tools to Empower Kids with Special Needs to Breathe and Relax’ 🌺
we need u in Saudi schools, God bless your breath
Mindfulness stresses me out and gives me a headache.
Loved it! Speaks directly to teachers…..
what a superb piece of communication
It's a fantastic idea but the major problem is that a teacher has to go down to London for 9 weeks to learn this for their school. Doesn't help when you live in Newcastle, Manchester, or Glasgow. Needs to be more available across UK
is there some way i could get allowed to translate this and add danish subtitles?
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.. You start at a younger age.. but THIS is wonderful! YES… SO VERY TRUE… ALL of this is TRUE!!
Word Up Eric Oostdjick…Start the children at the very least by Kindergarten. We Must! watch this world fix its turvy self atop again. So positive to see this Energy Force empowering millions, believe this is the knowledge that counters THEIR indoctrination.
Important work! Good share and inspiration
donde puedo encontrar la traduccion ?gracias
donde puedo encontrar la traduccion ?
donde puedo encontrar la traduccion ?
This is great, will be using in my HU 100 class (Human Interaction)
Dit heeft het onderwijs van de toekomst zo nodig en dat onderwijs van de toekomst begint vandaag, het is er al! Maar hopen dat we dat onze leerlingen en kinderen ook mee kunnen geven.
Excellent!!!
Traducción en ESPAÑOL!! , please
Meditation is Mindfulness!!!! whoa
I be. I be. I be. IB!
Thanks for sharing this important information. As a middle school nurse I have first hand experience with children that could use mindful education at school. I will look into this program.