Kate Berger
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first heard Apr 2016
last heard Apr 2016
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But definitely my emphasis is on working with children.
And, you know, I think, well, there are many reasons.
But one of the things that we've discovered, and I say we because I feel sort of a part of this movement that's bringing mindfulness to sort of more mainstream, you know, institutions and things like that.
And kids nowadays have so many – there's so much for them to have to pay attention to and think about and distractions and video games and busy schedules and just lifestyle is so hectic that it's become really difficult for kids to focus, to concentrate.
We see this in kind of –
shifts in sort of looking at prevalence of ADHD and things like that.
And mindfulness is really useful because what you're doing is training the mind, training the brain to come back to the present moment, to create this awareness for what's happening.
And the reason that kids actually tend to be so good at it, if you could say that, is because there's a huge component of it that's about being open and curious to what you find in the present moment.
So this sort of curiosity, almost like a curious George for what's happening, if you know that children's story.
And kids are a little bit better at...
at this open curiosity than we are as adults because it comes more naturally to them if you think about you know babies exploring the world for the first time picking up a new food or um you know feeling different textures of materials and things like this this is that sort of curiosity that we're talking about that we're trying to cultivate through mindfulness practice um
that kids are doing inherently because all these experiences are new to them.
And it's really neat because where I was kind of going with the attention and concentration, what we're seeing is that there's a lot of research going on, neuroscience, looking into children.
There's definitely more with adults, but a little bit with children looking at sort of
implications and and how mindfulness practice is useful for them in a school setting so looking at sort of test scores and and you know things like this and and how their ability to pay attention to focus to concentrate is actually um seen as improving through exposure to mindfulness practice so it's really exciting
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so exciting because, um, there's some really terrific programs that are kind of running this force, um, towards having mindfulness be incorporated into, into mainstream curriculum.
Um, so you have, you know, for in the UK, there's the mindfulness in schools project, um, in the States, mindful schools and, and many, many more that are trying to bring mindfulness into the classroom.
Even if it's a moment, a mindful moment, you know, we're, we're, um,
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