As you may have already heard, this year we're working with Kate Janke of the Heart-Mind-Education project to jump-start our mindfulness program (some of our faculty are already teaching mindfulness based on their personal past experience). Kate has been meeting with our faculty once a month since September to help us each develop our individual mindfulness practices, and have a shared vocabulary and experience to discuss mindfulness as practitioners. We also have access to resources on the password-protected portion of her website such as audio files and readings that we can use to assist us between her visits.
Since we love assessment and reflection here at TBS, two weeks ago we asked faculty to complete a simple survey on the training thus far. The thread of the narrative comments can be easily grasped by the following three charts we created based on their qualitative responses: most of the faculty are using mindfulness and find it at least somewhat helpful, AND most folks would like the school to find more ways to support their practice.
In February Kate be leading faculty in an intensive 15 hour training across three days on teaching mindfulness to students, after which she'll support teachers implementing regular mindfulness practice in their classrooms through the remainder of the spring. Stay tuned for news about that, and for a soon-to-be-launched parent mindfulness circle!
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