"I loved the glitter globe because it looks magic!"
"At home I found the mindful breathing good when I’m getting annoyed with my brothers."
"I liked the Snow globes – I found it easy to concentrate and watch it settle."
"When I take deep breaths it calms me down."
"I think the breathing keeps me calm because when I do my homework I stress."
"I think the snow globe keeps me really calm because when I do Literacy I get angry."
"When we did the movements in the hall it was really relaxing and calming."
"Good things about this experience which I have enjoyed was doing the mindful eating as I finally had a chance to savour food and I’ve carried that on at home."
"I liked the mindful watching because it is relaxing when you are down in the dumps."
"We liked the mindful breathing because it calmed us down in difficult and rough times."
What people have said about the Wellbeing Workshop
All of it was brilliant. Great fun!
Fun, light hearted. Made you stop and think.
A really good morning – enjoyed by all. Great tasks, lots of good discussion, lots of laughs.
Fun, interactive, great opportunity to work/play with people we don’t see often.
Fun, good for team building. It was a really good session, time flew.
Brought everyone together. Good to have time to spend with colleagues that’s relaxed.
Fun, encouraged interaction and enabled creativity.
Fun to spend time with lovely people and be allowed to be the creative people we so obviously are!
In my teaching career, one of my work friends affectionately referred to be as being a bit ‘Hippy Jo Jo’. I’ll take that, I always have kept an open mind when it comes to introducing an approach that may be seen as alternative. It was the same friend who put me on to mindfulness some years back, ‘See what you can find ...
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