{"id":14057,"date":"2019-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/brenna-fyrir-innleidingu-nuvitundar\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:02:28","slug":"passionate-about-introducing-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/brenna-fyrir-innleidingu-nuvitundar\/","title":{"rendered":"Passionate about introducing mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the winter of 2017-2018, \u00c1slandssk\u00f3li was offered the opportunity to take part in a research project on the implementation of mindfulness in primary schools, in collaboration with the Mindfulness Centre and the Office of the Chief Medical Officer. The project was funded by the Public Health Fund and its aim is to evaluate the impact of the mindfulness implementation on the well-being, resilience, general executive skills (e.g. emotional regulation and concentration) and mindfulness skills of pupils and staff. The town newspaper Hafnfir\u00f0ingur<\/a> met Krist\u00edn J\u00f3n Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir and Hj\u00f6rd\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, department heads at \u00c1slandssk\u00f3li, who are overseeing the project.<\/p>\n

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\u201eThere is a great deal of pace in society, and it is therefore extremely important that students and staff are given the tools to train and calm the mind. Foreign research has shown that mindfulness training increases well-being, resilience and general executive skills (e.g. emotional regulation and concentration) in pupils and teachers, and the introduction of mindfulness in schools has proven to be a positive experience for both teachers and pupils. We are therefore extremely grateful at \u00c1slandsk\u00f3li to be able to take part in this project,\u201c<\/em> say Krist\u00edn J\u00f3na and Hj\u00f6rd\u00eds, who are passionate about primary and nursery schools introducing mindfulness into their work. As part of the Healthy Community initiative in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, an agreement was made for them to visit the town's nurseries and primary schools with an educational talk about mindfulness and \u00c1sland School's implementation of it.<\/p>\n

Workshops, courses and training<\/h4>\n

The research project is for two years and began in January 2018. Initially, the focus was on mindfulness training for staff on an 8-week MBCT mindfulness course, with 40 staff members enrolling and 35 completing the course. The teachers who completed the course also had the opportunity to attend training in teaching mindfulness to children and adolescents. A team was assembled to manage the project, and Brynd\u00eds J\u00f3na J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir from the Mindfulness Centre is the school's liaison. Workshops in mindfulness, training in leading mindfulness exercises and teaching training based on the curricula of, among others, Brynd\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, Sara Silverton and Michael Bready have been offered. In addition, the teachers Krist\u00edn J\u00f3na and Hj\u00f6rd\u00eds attended a teacher training course run by the Mindfulness Centre and Bangor University in the UK, for which they received a grant from the Health Promotion Society of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The course is called the Teacher Training Pathway, which is professional teacher training for mindfulness professionals.<\/p>\n

Mindfulness introduced in school<\/h4>\n

Following these courses, work began to introduce mindfulness into the school. This was done, on the one hand, by offering pupils in Years 7 and 8 an 8-week mindfulness course\u2014as these year groups are participants in the research project\u2014and on the other, by introducing mindfulness techniques into general teaching. Parents were also introduced to what mindfulness entails and how its techniques can be used in daily life. This winter, it was decided to introduce structured mindfulness sessions for certain year groups; Years 3, 4, 5, 7 and 10, with the aim that every child who goes through 10 years of schooling at \u00c1slandsssk\u00f3li receives targeted mindfulness teaching in all departments. In addition, teachers are weaving mindfulness into lessons as appropriate, and there are plans for regular mindfulness exercises for the staff, partly to help them take better care of themselves.<\/p>\n

Hj\u00f6rd\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir recently discussed mindfulness on Vitanum, the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's podcast. <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veturinn 2017-2018 bau\u00f0st \u00c1slandssk\u00f3la a\u00f0 taka \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed ranns\u00f3knarverkefni \u00e1 innlei\u00f0ingu n\u00favitundar \u00ed grunnsk\u00f3lum \u00ed samstarfi vi\u00f0 N\u00favitundarsetri\u00f0 og Emb\u00e6tti landl\u00e6knis. Verkefni\u00f0 var styrkt af L\u00fd\u00f0heilsusj\u00f3\u00f0i og markmi\u00f0 \u00feess er a\u00f0 meta \u00e1rangur innlei\u00f0ingar n\u00favitundar \u00e1 l\u00ed\u00f0an, seiglu, almenna st\u00fdrif\u00e6rni (t.d. tilfinningastj\u00f3rnun og einbeitingu) og n\u00favitundarf\u00e6rni nemenda og starfsf\u00f3lks. B\u00e6jarbla\u00f0i\u00f0 Hafnfir\u00f0ingur hitti  Krist\u00ednu J\u00f3nu Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17052,"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-14057","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\/14057","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=14057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14057"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}