Graham Doke is founder of leading wellness centre Anamaya and the first and only mobile full-curriculum mindfulness course for young people - Anamaya for School. He has practised mindfulness meditation for over 17 years and is passionate about its ability to enhance learning and develop key social and emotional skills.
When I talk to people about mindfulness, and mindfulness in schools, I find a lot of people know of the idea, but that they don’t really know much about what it means. There’s a vague idea of it meaning you pay more attention to what's going on around you, which seems a fine idea for a teacher, but not much real detail. So, what does it really mean? Is it really beneficial? And if it is, what can be done to get it into the classroom when the school doesn't have a proper mindfulness programme?
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