Thursday 10th October 2009 is mental health day and is a fantastic opportunity to educate and raise awareness on issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing. It is an opportunity for us as teachers to turn inwards and access our wellbeing. As teachers we naturally focus on the wellbeing of the children in our classes. We […]
Now that we are back in school, it is a good idea to prioritise our own wellbeing and get the new school year off to a healthy start. STOP is an easy way to remember this four-step mindfulness practice. Stop whatever you are doing. Take a moment to just sit or stand with awareness, concentrate […]
Beginning in silence… It’s called starting again, it sounds familiar. We start again and again; indeed my whole life seems to be a series of new beginnings, false starts, half heartened attempts to become my better self, to being the perfect me, whole and fully content. However my desire to fit in translates to […]
If you would like to bring mindfulness to pupils, parents or staff, you can use the website map on www.aframeofmind.ie to engage an independent .b or Paws b teacher to deliver a taster session, the .b or Paws b curriculum. All of the teachers successfully completed a .b or Paws training course with Mindfulness in […]
For those of us in Primary schools we are still busy but the promise of summer allows us the opportunity to move a lot of our learning to the outdoors, to the school gardens and back into the classroom again. I am looking forward to sports day, school trips, yoga outdoors and perhaps some simple […]
Welcome to the Club Whatever way we come to parenthood; planned, unplanned, IVF, surrogacy, fostering, adoption or other means; we know we are blessed, and bravely set off on a lifelong journey, not knowing exactly which paths and directions we will have to navigate. We may have some ideals about parenting, family and relationships but […]
New Course For Primary Teachers-Professional Training in the Applied use of Mindfulness for Primary Schools For those of us in Primary schools we are still busy but the delights of Spring and the promise of Summer allow us the opportunity to move a lot of our learning to the outdoors, to the school gardens […]
Wellness Packages were launched in the INTO Learning Centre, Parnell Square, autumn 2015. The 3 week packages consisted of experiential workshops and were a great opportunity for those of us in attendance to prioritize our health and wellbeing. The Thursday afternoons provided a much needed pause in our busy week. Feeling nourished, we floated into […]
A Frame of Mind offers Relationships and Sexuality Training Parent Information Evenings to primary schools in the Dublin region. In addition to her teaching Kay works as a Relationship and Sexuality facilitator for the PDST. She works with teachers in education centres and within their own school settings. Kay delivers parent information talks to parent groups […]
What we communicate by who we are can be as significant as what we say and I had a prime example of this last week. I was teaching my usual Friday morning class when one of the girl’s asked if we could make smoothies the following week. Having heard her request and sensing the enthusiasm […]
