Mindfulness Wrap Up
Good afternoon Parents,
Please see the email below from Jo Edmonds who undertook our Mindfulness learning this term.
Thanks,
Caitlin
Dear Dear
Parents/Carers,
I feel privileged to have been welcomed
into the year 6 class to share mindfulness.
We have taken a journey to explore how to
build healthier, happier brains through considering and understanding emotion,
compassion, mindfulness and meditation.
We presented the students a simplistic
understanding of how the brain is wired and in turn, how our emotions, when
negative, can affect and cloud our thinking. One tool for mindfulness we practiced
was belly breathing as a way to calm down.
Through mindfulness, we can learn ways to
calm down when we are upset, allowing us to make better decisions, have clarity
to think and help better regulate our emotions resulting in healthier, happier
brains.
We introduced the students to new ABC’s for
mindfulness. Attention, Balance and Compassion. Your children were introduced
to mindful eating and we also investigated mindful movement through taking the
children on a silent walk and asking them to share what they “noticed”. We
discovered another form of mindful movement through Tai Chi.
In our last session, we integrated all our
mindfulness learning into powering for our best performance. We also looked at the
mindfulness pyramid (similar to the healthy eating pyramid), a tool the
students can use for powering themselves for their best performance.
We have given the students some handouts to
take home with them and trust that they have enjoyed the journey of
mindfulness. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any queries or thoughts
about the journey for your children. I would also like to thank Caitlin Delane
and OLC for allowing me to share this passion and to Rochelle Randles my
wonderful Psychology student who is also on a learning journey.
Joanne
Edmond
PSYCHOLOGIST
B.A. Psychology, P.G. Dip
Psychology, MAPS
