Recently I was a guest speaker in one high-school on which I was supposed to introduce teaching Mindfulness. Since I usually teach about Mindfulness to youth who are familiar and motivated to learn about it and most of the time in small groups, I didn\u2019t prepare anything special. I just do my usual talk and a few simple exercises. After a few minutes, I\u2019ve noticed that most of the class in which there were more than 30 pupils aged around 17, were completely unaware of my existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of them were talking, making jokes, sleeping and of course not listening. One of the students even said to me:\u201cMaybe you are not interesting enough for us to listen to you.\u201d When she said it I had a thought in my head: \u201cOkay this is your chance to connect with them\u201d, so I asked the group in a calm way: \u201cOkay, maybe I am not so interesting, but as far as I can see, you are not listening to each other that much as well\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we started to talk about how much we are listening to each other, about our awareness, how we are dealing with different emotions, in which part of the body we can feel some specific emotions etc. When the class finished I\u2019ve realized how at the beginning of the class I went in a wrong direction by trying to explain the theory of Mindfulness, and the moment we started to talk about them and connection of Mindfulness with their lives everything changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inspired by this experience I\u2019ve come up with some advice which you may find useful when teaching youth about Mindfulness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve read somewhere: \u201cremember that you are just planting seeds\u201d. If you meet with students for two months once per week, it\u2019s not much time. Some students will see the benefits of Mindfulness and meditation straight away and maybe some of them, later in life, will remember what you taught them and appreciate it in a new way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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