 workshop okay and we're going to start by doing body scum meditation very short just for three minutes so please adopt the posture that you already know sit on the verge of your chairs backs upright in upright position so let's start with a brief mindful meditation practice to relax your body and focus your mind you can do this guided meditation on your own three to six days per week for four weeks and so research suggests that people who practice the body scan for longer rip more benefits from these practice the body scan can be performed while lying down sitting or in other postures and this one is designed to be done while sitting so close your eyes and let's start begin by bringing your attention into your body you can close your eyes if that's comfortable for you you can notice your body is seated wherever you are seated feeling the weight of your body on the chair on the floor whatever you're sitting take a few deep breaths and as you take a deep breath bringing more oxygen and life in the body and as you exhale have a sense of relaxing more deeply you can notice your feet on the floor notice the sensations of your feet touch in the floor the weight and pressure vibration heat you can notice your legs against the chair pressure pulsing heaviness lightness notice your back against the chair now bring your attention into your stomach area if your stomach is tense or tight let it soften and take a breath notice your hands are your hands tense or tight see if you can allow them to soften notice your arms feel any sensation in your arms and let your shoulders be soft notice your neck and your throat let them be soft relax soften your jaw let your face and facial muscles be soft and notice your whole body present and take one more breath be aware of your whole body as best you can and take a breath and then when you're ready you can open your eyes good morning welcome back okay so welcome again to this workshop as you can see on the first slide the title of this workshop is past butterfly posing active listening emotions and meditation in the bilingual classroom and let me start by drawing your attention to the quote that you can see on this slide by Tran Tzu who is an Oriental wise man an Oriental sage as you probably know the old India in their knowing ancient wise men knew that sometimes it was hard to draw a clear dividing line between the waking world and the world of dreams so Tran Tzu once said I dreamed I was a butterfly fluttering either and either then I awoke now I wonder am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man there's a very puzzling story as you can see and in subsequent years this story was revisited by other amin and man of letters such as the Argentinian what he Luis Borges who also wrote short stories about the same notion the notion that at times is difficult to say where dreams end and where reality begin okay why this title for this presentation why post post butterflies posing and I want to I want you to pay attention to post and posed this is different they are causing homophones but they are not well a post butterfly stops flying for the fraction of a second it sits on a flower petal on a tree bow or on a blade of grass to simply exist as it out of time for a while whereas a post butterfly is something different a post butterfly is the term that we used to refer to our yoga posture to a yoga asana and well we need to be paused and posed at the same time to make the most of these experience in this workshop so now forget about the world and just be present here and now that's why we have studied this session with a body scan meditation well this is what we are going to do in today's workshop our goals our objectives are three of the first one is to introduce you to active listening skills active listening is fundamental when it comes to doing mindfulness when it comes to cultivating design thinking in a classroom and it is of the essence in your everyday personal lives as well so that's the first thing active listening skills the second objective is going to be to do a bit of meditation different kind of different kinds of meditation practices and the third goal has to do with time management so you probably know time is one of the main sources of stress in our everyday lives because we always have an endless list of things to do every day but our time is limited every day has just 25 hours and we have to try and learn to make the most of them so we look at different ways of making the most of time and we'll introduce the concept of the time matrix so those are the three objectives for this lesson of course we'll be talking about emotions that was the luminous metaphor that I have tried to explain to you before so what are emotions and why are they important let's have a look at these three different definitions that we have come across in different dictionaries according to the Oxford English Dictionary an emotion is an instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reason in our knowledge according to the Marianne Webster Dictionary an emotion is a conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced a strong feeling usually directed to work specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavior changes in the body and the last definition is a composite definition drawing on a number of definitions that we have come across in different sources emotions are responses to significant internal and external events they're usually brief in duration and consist of a coordinated set of responses which may include verbal physiological behavioral and neural mechanisms when emotions as you probably know as well are different from feelings for moods and from effects when going and we're not going to go into these details but you should know that they are not the same feelings aren't something completely different feelings are a subjective representation cultural representation of emotions as experienced by an individual but interestingly enough the word emotion is very curious it goes back in time according to some experts on emotion research to the very origins of language human language and actually you you find the word emotion in lots of different languages across the world and it looks almost the same the first appearance of the word as such happened in the 16th century in French but if you look at the root of the etymology of the word emotion comes from from the Latin a mobile which means to move outside so it is as if you were projecting certain states of mind outside of yourself towards the world why are emotions important well basically they are a survival mechanism and we need them which are the universal emotions can you name them happiness is it a universal emotion sadness anger fear is love a universal emotion or is it a feeling could be both well there's no consensus amongst researchers but love is not one of the basic universal emotions sorry those are seven basic emotions so we have mentioned some of them already happiness sadness anger fear surprise disgust ask this universal as well and some scholars at a seventh universal emotion which is content the pressure there's a very interesting scholar by the name of Paul Eggman he has been doing research on emotions for over 40 years and one of his most important findings is that people all over the world regardless of their linguistic or cultural background can recognize this seven emotions even in pre-literate societies in societies where people have not been exposed to the media or to writing people can recognize these seven emotions in other people in other people's faces facial expression that's very curious and well he he did a very intensive research in Papua Guinea New Guinea and he found out that people can recognize them straight away right a few years later 1986 this man Robert Plutnik came up with the wheel of emotions according to Plutnik there are eight universal emotions and he decided to group them on a positive or negative basis he said there are four pairs of emotions joy versus sadness anger versus fear trust versus disgust and surprise versus anticipation but have a closer look at this wheel of emotions if you pay attention to this well you will realize that emotions exist on a sort of continuing of intensity so for example look at rage anger is the universal emotion but in much in much the same way you combine primary colors to produce secondary colors you can combine primary emotions to produce or to make more complex emotions so you've got anger rage which in terms of intensity is you know much stronger and then you've got anointment so the same applies to all eight basic emotions according to Plutnik just have a look at this wheel again and try to position yourself within this will of emotions how do you feel right now are you experiencing joy or serenity just talk to your partner for one minute where do you position yourselves within the wheel of emotions talk to your partner right now yes why don't we take another breath together is it okay with you okay let's sit in the meditation position okay we are going to breathe together in the group this is a way of taking everybody's in so if you're in class it is a way of fostering the feeling of belonging to the group so I really recommend you to use this activity whenever you're in class and students are tired nervous they feel unease so when they are in an unease situation or feeling nervous or they're not able to connect bring them together just by asking them to seat putting their feet on the floor staying in upright position and then why don't you try to say good morning to everyone just by looking at people so I look at people and don't say anything just look I pass my eyes through everybody's faces I look at them and then I close my eyes and when you close your eyes you put your hands in your lap you feel your body sitting right here in this moment trying to bring your mind which may be wandering away moving far away jumping from one thought to the other in a monkey fashion our monkey mind is going up going down jumping here going there but we find these doing that and we bring it back to our breathing and to our body and to our present moment now together I want to invite you to wish a very good morning to everybody by taking one deep breath are you ready inhale good morning guys exhale good morning guys how are you today one more time inhale good morning how are you today exhale you can now in your eyes smile good morning okay now when we talk about emotions we cannot talk about emotions from here we cannot use our minds to talk about emotions because emotions are not here if we talk about emotions from here not from here we are not doing anything so by asking you as we do it in which emotion are you today you would start thinking well I am so your monkey mind goes crazy trying to find a nice word to say today I'm happy today I'm bored today I'm so we start mixing up emotions feelings moods my partner my colleague she has just explained to you this list of emotions which are said to be universal these emotions are universal and for example Echman and also the other scholar they were trying to explain all these emotions when we distinguish between a good emotion and a bad emotion we're making a mistake do you believe that emotions are either good or bad they are not all of them are necessary all of them why then do you think that we say that emotions are good or bad because of which feeling so you are having an emotion and where do you feel emotions you feel emotions in your bodies which is the difference between an emotion and a feeling an emotion is universal and it is felt in your body a feeling appears when we humans develop language so some some feelings exist in some languages but not in others so these feelings are cultural but emotions are universal when we talk about good and bad do you remember that we were saying that we have to adopt a beginner's mind a beginner's mind means that we should try to avoid attaching to things because they are really pleasant or saying no to things because they are unpleasant don't you remember when we were saying be with the unpleasant be with the pleasant trying to adopt perspective well when we have unpleasant feelings these feelings are associated with those emotions that we call bad emotions they are not bad they are absolutely necessary to survival humans need emotions we are now going to play a short video clip from a very very interesting film that we believe that you may sing inside out have you seen it yes no well those of you who haven't seen the film I really recommend it is amazing not just for children I have to say not for children so I'm going to invite you to take a look and to observe and to watch and to inhale the film and then I'm going to ask you some questions about the emotions that we have there and we're going to be talking about these emotions we're going to be working on emotions and then I will go deeper and deeper in you so you will have to explore yourselves if you don't want to share you don't have to share because this is private so we will respect at all times your privacy but we're going to invite you to do this because if we want to make sure that our children our students become familiar with their own emotions are able to recognize them are able to talk about them first we adults need to do this all right