Earlier this week I had a chance to work with year 7 students at a school in Selby. The wonderful folk at nybep had arranged for me to deliver workshops on two themes – Self-Awareness through Breath-Control and Learning New Languages (the fun way). Both themes elicited some interesting and unexpected reactions from students and I will cover them in separate blog-posts.
Delivering the self-awareness session was a challenge simply because these students had never been in a situation before where they had to reflect on their physical/emotional state and that too in the presence of their peers. Whilst I was glad that there wasn’t a wholesale rejection of the various tasks, it was quite a challenge to keep them engaged. And to be honest, when the entire class had to work as a group I was certain the session would descend into chaos. Fortunately my little repertoire of breath-games kept them interested.
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Pillows are for sleeping…
Earlier this week I had a chance to work with year 7 students at a school in Selby. The wonderful folk at nybep had arranged for me to deliver workshops on two themes – Self-Awareness through Breath-Control and Learning New Languages (the fun way). Both themes elicited some interesting and unexpected reactions from students and I will cover them in separate blog-posts.
Delivering the self-awareness session was a challenge simply because these students had never been in a situation before where they had to reflect on their physical/emotional state and that too in the presence of their peers. Whilst I was glad that there wasn’t a wholesale rejection of the various tasks, it was quite a challenge to keep them engaged. And to be honest, when the entire class had to work as a group I was certain the session would descend into chaos. Fortunately my little repertoire of breath-games kept them interested.
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