lesson 7: Mindfulness and Positive Psychology
- My mind feels/my body feels?
What is mindfulness?
- Moment to moment awareness
- Non-judgement
- Acceptance
- Breathing meditation
- Rooted in Eastern meditation traditions but secular in outlook
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Professor Katherine Weare
- Professor Mark Williams
- MiSP (Mindfulness in Schools Project, see Richard Burnett above)
- Proven to reduce anxiety, depression and improve executive brain function, empathy and behaviour
positive psychology and schools
What went well why?
Think of three things that you can appreciate and be happy about today:
- Doesn't matter how small
- Can be to do with how you responded to a situation
- Identify 'why' it went well
- Martin Seligman et al
- Authentic Happiness; happiness is something we can create and nurture
- 'Flipped' version of psychology that doesn't focus on pathology
- Focus on developing positive emotion through 'interventions' and self-awareness: WWW? Gratitude
- Key to happiness is nurturing and cultivating character strengths and using them more in day-to-day life
- Resilience, grit, mastery instead of 'learned helplessness'; if something goes wrong responding to it positively, perseverance (see meta-cognition and building learning power)
- Identify areas of FLOW and integrate more of them in to your working life
In groups try and think of ways in which you could promote POSITIVE EDUCATION in the following contexts:
- Practical/workshop activities
- Lesson design including structure, pace and students being 'active agents'
- BTEC
- Assessment strategies
Seligman outlines principles of Positive Psychology...
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