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Elementary Students Practicing Mindfulness - A Meeting of the Minds (Hardcover)
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Elementary Students Practicing Mindfulness - A Meeting of the Minds (Hardcover)
Series: Mindfulness in Education
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Much of the literature about stress and its effects on children is
focused on how these various groups can learn how to "cope,"
"adapt," and/or "manage" stress. Practicing mindfulness, on the
other hand, is about becoming familiar with how one responds to
stress and, as important, how one can differentiate between
stressors that generate beneficial actions and ones that escalate
distress and discomfort. It was the latter approach that
characterized the year-long mindfulness project that a group of
racial, ethnic, and culturally diverse fifth graders in a local
Boston public school participated in during the AY2016-2017. The
facilitator of the project met with participating students for an
average of 75 minutes, once per week. In large and small group
discussions and numerous creative techniques and processes (e.g.,
photography, symbolic art) the participants explored, documented,
and assessed how they experienced various forms of mindfulness and
how those processes informed their thinking, emotions, and actions.
As important, participating in the project provided the young
people with opportunities to become 'mindfulness ambassadors' who
brought mindfulness into their families, school, and respective
communities. Engaging in mindfulness practices provided the young
people with opportunities to develop life-long, skillful ways to
become familiar with their minds, increase their self-awareness,
more effectively respond to difficult thoughts and emotions, and
provide strategies to foster positive connections with others. In
addition, sharing and exploring strategies for developing a mindful
perspective contributed to creating an environment for learning
that intersected with young people's capacity to be critical
thinkers and thoughtful decision-makers. The greatest contribution
of the book is that it is threaded with the voices of young girls
and boys who speak about themselves, their thoughts and emotions,
their experiences with fear, anxiety, success, and failure with
directness, honesty, and a confidence in their skills and
abilities. Their participation in the project demonstrates the
possibilities classroom teachers have to integrate mindfulness
practices into the school day. As important, teachers are invited
to hone their own mindfulness practices to ensure that they are
intentionally working with their own thoughts, emotions, and
assumptions as they relate to the students they teach.
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