Meditation in the classroom setting Let’s face it, life can be challenging, especially today with the change that is occurring across the planet. When teens experience challenges in their personal lives it can affect how they behave in class, how they engage in learning and ultimately how they perform academically. Meditation is evidence based and …
Mental Health Symptoms and Teenage Development Recent studies have shown that symptoms of a diagnosed mental illness in adults are more likely to develop in their teenage years. In fact, Joinson (2017) found that 75% of adults with depression reported their mental health problems had started in adolescence. This is obviously a cause for concern, …
Digital Wellbeing should be taught in schools Recent surveys report that nine out of ten teenagers between 13-17 are active on social media. To parents of teenagers and secondary school teachers across Ireland this figure will probably come as no surprise. Equipped with mobile phones, computers, tablets, and online video games, teenagers are more interconnected …
Teacher Student Relationships News flash – recent research is backing up what most of us already know! As students, we’ve all experienced teachers who were in bad form at one time or another, and a teacher in a bad mood can really affect the mood of individual students as well as the whole class. If …
Youthreach Program We’re very proud of our partnership with Youthreach centres. We’ve grown from delivering to 2 centres in 2019, to 13 centres last year, and we’re set to grow again this year. One of our speakers is a Youthreach graduate, who has since gone on to become a wellbeing researcher in Maynooth University, but …
Mood Food Now more than ever, our mental health has been massively tested due to Covid-19. As we adapt to the new normal, we’re spending more time indoors and away from those we love, things that are far from normal. We’re taking it hour by hour and day by day. We’re spending more time in …
8 Things Your Teenagers Can Do to Be More Mindful The school year is winding down, there’s been social distancing graduations, classes, and lessons via Zoom, plenty of home schooling, online learning, learning in different shapes and forms. Family have become teachers and learning has been so much more than opening a book. It’s taken …
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The need to teach social and emotional intelligence has come about as a response to our rapidly changing world and in particular as a solution to the growing mental health crisis amongst teenagers. This provides us with an opportunity; if we really understand and properly teach young people about what it truly means to live …
A response to Bishop Cullinane’s letter to schools In Bishop Cullinane’s letter to schools in his parish, the christian methods of prayer and meditation on Christ are offered as paths to freedom, but all others are dismissed, by referencing a homily by the Pope. This is problematic; an authority figure’s words no longer impress like …
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