{"id":14054,"date":"2019-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/nyvitun-i-skolastarfi-meiri-samkennd-minni-streita\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:02:29","slug":"innovation-in-school-work-greater-empathy-less-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/nyvitun-i-skolastarfi-meiri-samkennd-minni-streita\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness in schoolwork: More empathy \u2013 less stress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mindfulness introduced into Sm\u00e1ralundur's work<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second year of a project to introduce mindfulness into the work of the Sm\u00e1ralundur nursery school has begun. In the first year, the focus was solely on the staff, who experienced first-hand what it is like to use mindfulness in their daily work. According to Inga Fr\u00ed\u00f0a Tryggvad\u00f3ttir, the head teacher, the staff can already feel that the children are being given certain tools to have better control over themselves and to lengthen their reaction time to stimuli. The local paper, Hafnfir\u00f0ingur, paid a visit. <\/a>
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Inga Fr\u00ed\u00f0a says that two years ago she had a friend give a staff meeting at the nursery school to discuss positive psychology, yoga and her experience of mindfulness. \u201eAfter listening to her, the staff were very keen to work with this and subsequently we applied for a grant from the Public Health Fund, which we received. After that, the ball started rolling and the first year was dedicated solely to working with the staff. This autumn, all the staff attended a training course with the \u201cThe Gift of Now' curriculum, and this winter we will be introducing that curriculum with the children.\"<\/em> Both parents and teachers of the eldest children completed questionnaires last September and will do so again this spring. \u201eThen we will see if there is a significant difference in the children's well-being and behaviour. But we can already feel that we are giving the children certain tools to have better self-control and to lengthen their reaction time to stimuli. We are therefore really excited to be entering this second winter of the project.<\/em><\/p>\n

A significant positive change<\/h4>\n

In the first year, the work was carried out exclusively with the staff, who experienced first-hand what it is like to use mindfulness in their daily lives. They completed questionnaires before and after the intervention. Between the measurements, there was a significant positive change in three assessment factors; self-compassion, general executive function and perseverance, which increased significantly. Stress and depression were factors that decreased somewhat between measurements. The average on the so-called \u201chappiness question' also increased significantly, from 7.3 to 8.6,\"<\/em> says Inga Fr\u00ed\u00f0a. This spring, the nursery staff went on a study trip to Tossa De Mar where they took part in a mindfulness course with Brynd\u00eds J\u00f3na J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir. There, they looked at how to maintain work with mindfulness, worked with the staff team and brought them together.<\/p>\n

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Guided mindfulness sessions<\/h4>\n

Last autumn, the staff team attended a teacher training course on the curriculum for children called The Gift of Now \u2013 a mindfulness and wellbeing curriculum for nursery and primary schools, by the author Sara Silverton. We learnt about specific themes in the curriculum and also looked at the daily schedule, how we can utilise mindfulness sessions, e.g. whether we could adapt it and give certain elements more space. We have now started targeted mindfulness sessions in the classrooms, where we are exploring the themes from the curriculum. We also use every opportunity in our daily work for mindfulness. After the winter, the questionnaires will be answered again and it will be exciting to see if there is a significant difference in the children's well-being and behaviour,\u201e says Inga Fr\u00ed\u00f0a, optimistic and composed.<\/p>\n

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N\u00favitund innleidd \u00ed starf Sm\u00e1ralundar Hafinn er annar vetur verkefnis \u00fear sem innleidd er n\u00favitund \u00ed starf leiksk\u00f3lans Sm\u00e1ralundar. Fyrsta \u00e1ri\u00f0 var eing\u00f6ngu unni\u00f0 me\u00f0 starfsf\u00f3lki\u00f0 \u00fear sem \u00fea\u00f0 fann \u00e1 eigin skinni hvernig er a\u00f0 n\u00fdta s\u00e9r n\u00favitund \u00ed dagsins \u00f6nn. A\u00f0 s\u00f6gn Ingu Fr\u00ed\u00f0u Tryggvad\u00f3ttur sk\u00f3lastj\u00f3ra finnur starfsf\u00f3lk sk\u00f3lans n\u00fa \u00feegar a\u00f0 veri\u00f0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14054"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}