Mindfulness – What is it, how might it help children, teachers and schools?

In this second podcast with Professor Willem Kuyken, we explore mindfulness - what it is, how it can be practised and how it can benefit mental health. We debunk the idea of mindfulness as a panacea and explore instead for whom and under what conditions it might be helpful. We consider the many facets of mindfulness such as curiosity, kindness and compassion and how we learn mindfulness through our everyday lives and other people.  We discuss how our attention has become a commodity that social media successfully harnesses and that perhaps mindfulness is a way to claim back our attention.   Finally we start to think about the best ways to introduce mindfulness in schools, revisiting the idea of school climate.     If you want to hear more about codesign do listen to the RE-STAR podcasts