Everybody present
Subtitle: mindfulness in education
By: Nikolaj Flor Rotne, Didde Flor Rotne
Contributors: Rotne, Didde Flor
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781937006433
Subjects: Reflective teaching; Teacher-student relationships; Psychological aspects
Work titles: Mindfulness i pædagogikken
Description: "Everybody Present seeks to create a new kind of culture in our schools: one that counters stress and facilitates learning. It reframes the student-teacher relationship, showing teachers how to supplant antagonism and foster strong relationships by planting seeds of mindfulness in their students and encouraging them to embark on a mindfulness practice of their own. Illustrating the transformative effects of mindfulness on educators, students, and their classrooms, Everybody Present shows how mindfulness helps to strengthen inner peace and prevent stress, foster contagious joy and an ethic of altruism, improve understanding between student and teacher, and fortify competence in educational relations. A working manual addressed to everyone in the educational universe, Everybody Present presents real-world applications grounded in solid research. Stories, exercises, and case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of mindful practices across all areas of education. Everybody Present is intended to contribute to the creation of a culture throughout the educational system writ large, working against stress and victim mentality to set in motion a revolution of silence, allowing each individual the experience of inter-being, inner calm, and joy. By exploring the challenges of teaching, Everybody Present will help all educators transform feelings of inadequacy into experiences of abundance"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A new approach to education; title: Combining personal and social change; title: What is mindfulness?; title: Rediscovering our educational ideals; title: From vicious circle to virtuous circle; title: Mindfulness as educational practice; title: How to practice mindfulness; title: Deep breathing creates inner calm; title: Stress reduction through mindfuness; title: How mindfulness strengthens our relationships; title: Mindfulness and anger management; title: Children and mindfulness; title: What mindfulness is not; title: The insights of mindfulness; title: The revolution of Silence; title: The somatic markers; title: Coherence; title: Stress: when the amygdala runs wild; title: Mindfulness creates density in the brain's gray matter; title: Mirror neurons