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June 2020
Welcome to our June Newsletter. Another month has come and we still lack clarity about when children can return to school! Hopefully, a sensible and practical way forward can be found through consultation with all concerned very soon.
       There is, however, clarity now regarding Summer Courses. You may recall we ran a very successful Summer Course last year called Mindfulness & Meditation for the Well-being of Teachers and Children. The course has been approved again and the wonderful news is that this year we expect to be able to offer it via Zoom. That will mean the course will now be accessible to teachers anywhere in Ireland! The course will run from Wed, 1 July to Tues, 7 July 2020 with three facilitators Noel Keating, Bryan O'Reilly and Noirin Kelly; as last year, registration will be through Kildare Education Centre.
       As of today, they have posted only their online courses but we expect that face-to-face courses which are approved for Zoom will be added very soon. Come back and click here in a few days to find and register for our course. The photo below shows last year's participants on the final day of the programme last year.

Our online Zoom meditations for teachers continue each Wednesday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m GMT. Click here to let me know if you would like to join and I will send you an invitation at 7:25 before each session starts.
Last month I drew your attention to a series of videos which were part of an international project.introducing meditation to young children and teenagers during the pandemic. The videos will remain a valuable resource for many years to come. They can be accessed by clicking on the image below and have been viewed over 4000 times so far.



Some of the videos are for older children and are equally suitable for young people attending secondary school. Over the summer I will work on the videos again to create a set with a clearer progression from one video to the next, each one bringing children a little bit deeper into the practice.
I would love to hear how you managed to encourage children to continue to meditate during the lockdown. Please do keep the feedback coming. Click here to send - a few words will do!
Given the widespread coverage of the inequality experienced by people of colour in the media in recent weeks, teachers may be minded to explore the topic with their classes over the coming year. I came across these videos recently - if you have other resources on the topic that you can share, please let me know.
All of our previous Newsletters can be found by clicking here.
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