Presenter: Nimrod Sheinman, ND
Objectives: Participants completing this presentation will be able to:
- Understand how much mindfulness, mind-body and imagery skills can influence children's learning, behavior, self image and self talk.
- Appreciate the benefits of the mind-body and imagery intervention in Israeli schools.
- Evaluate our 10 years accumulated experience of teaching mindfulness and imagery to thousands of kids, their learning responses to the project, and their teachers observation of them.
Description: Ten years ago, an Israeli
school principal asked us to design
a mind-body intervention for her violent school of 500 kids
in South Tel
Aviv. More schools have joined since, to what has become
the largest
intervention in Israel - integrating mind-body, mindfulness
and imagery
with whole classes and whole schools.
"Sfat Hakeshev" (The Mindful Language) is a holistic,
experiential and
mindful learning program based on a unique integration of
guided
imagery, mindfulness meditation and mindful yoga, with
emphasis on
building and developing mind-body awareness and skills.
The program was developed by the Israel Center for
Mind-Body Medicine,
with support of the Israel Ministry of Education and the
Israel Psycho
Educational Services.
Our accumulated findings show a significant influence of
the intervention
on the kids' descriptions of what they have learned and
gained, in the
areas of self image, self talk, self awareness, improved
learning abilities,
sense of control, relaxation, concentration, reactivity
reduction and dealing
with stress.
This presentation will outline the basic principles and
ingredients of the
work, with emphasis on what the kids say about their
experiences,
learning, transformation and self
development.