 Do you mind putting all your papers on the floor? Can you see the way I'm sitting down? The soles of my feet are touching the floor. I am sitting on the edge of the chair. Do you see how I'm sitting down? Do you see? It doesn't have to be a tense posture, but it has to be a posture that means that you are aware, conscious that you are here. Are you here? Yes you are. Okay? Is it alright if I ask you to close your eyes? Would you feel comfortable if you close your eyes? If you don't want to, it's okay. You can have your eyes open, but if you close your eyes, it will be more intense. I'm going to ask someone to put the lights down. Can someone put the lights down? Thank you. And now you can take a nap. It's a joke. Now I'm going to make a very short meditation to start this workshop. So I will start the meditation by playing the gong, and the meditation will end up when I play the gong again. Meanwhile, just listen to my voice and relax. Sitting down in your chairs, gently closing your eyes, and listening to my voice. I will start this short activity, and we will finish maybe in 5-10 minutes. Focus now on concentrating on the flow of air coming in and coming out of your nose through your nostrils regularly, feeling the cool air coming in and coming out. Notice how when it comes in, it is cooler, but when it comes out, it is warmer going out of your body without trying to change the rhythm of your breathing. Just observing it. Just observing your breath, taking now your attention to those parts of your body in contact with the chair. How does it feel? Do you notice any pressure? Keep on breathing with your breathing. Focus on the soles of your feet. Notice the feeling of the word. Notice your knees. Notice your thighs. Feel how your breathing is going through your body, to your legs, your breath is coming in, your breath is going out. Move now to your belly. Do you feel the air in your belly? Does your belly go up and go down with your breath? Notice your hips. Notice your genital area. You are here. You are breathing in this moment. Pay attention now to your back. Is your back tense? Is it relaxed? You don't have to do anything. Just be with what you have. Don't change. Just accept what you have. Go now to your chest. Do you feel your breath in your chest? Is your chest moving? It doesn't have to. Whatever your chest does is okay. Moving now to your shoulders. Do you feel anything in your shoulders? Do you feel anything in your arms, in your elbows, in your wrists, your hands, your fingers? Are your fingers cold? Are your fingers warm? Are you feeling in your hands? Is your breath moving through your body and going to your arms? Whatever you feel is right. Just be with it. Accept what you have in your present moment now. Let me now invite you to go back to the place in your body where your breathing feels stronger. Maybe you feel it stronger in your upper lip, or maybe you feel it stronger in your chest, or maybe you feel it stronger in your belly. Just concentrate on that place where your breathing feels stronger. Follow your breathing in that part of your body. Connect with the sensations in your body. The air keeps coming in and keeps coming out. I have a question for you. I want you to consider the answer. My question is what is your intention for taking this workshop? Considering this for a moment, thinking about your intention when taking this workshop, I'm going to ask you now to move this intention aside. Let this answer be aside. I'm going to ask you now another question. The second question is what is your intention for taking this workshop? Going deeper. Considering this new intention, hold your intention in your mind. I'm going to ask you to move this intention aside again. I'm going to ask you now a third question. The third question is what is your intention for taking this workshop? Breathe now with your third answer. Breathe with it. Be with your answer. Maybe you would like to thank yourself for devoting time and energies to be here. Taking one deep breath with your intention or with your intentions. Welcome. My name is Kristina. I feel honored to be here today with you. I always say that I have a cup like a glass. Imagine a glass of wine. A glass came here today empty. And hopefully I will take this glass with me completely full when we finish this workshop. How do you feel? Are you reconnected with yourselves? Yes? This is the first mindful experience in this workshop. We are going to be working on concepts and terms related to mindfulness and coaching. I will mainly focus on mindfulness only in two hours. I don't have time for more. So I bring some activities. We will do some of them, some others we may not do. But this will be the tone of the session. Are you here? Are you now? Yes? Okay. Why don't we take all of us one deep breath together. Close your eyes. Get ready. Feel the wooden floor in the soles of your feet. Feel your body in this meditation posture. And now let's take one deep breath together. Do you mind putting the lights on? Or at least one set of lights? Maybe... Thank you. Okay. I'm going to ask you to befriend the person who's next to you. But what you are going to do is just to look at that person for three seconds and smile. Don't say a word. Just look and smile. Okay. Is it possible? Is it possible not to speak? Just smile. Yes, just smile. And now and now if you have already smiled and connected with the person now you can whisper. Now I'm going to ask you to share your intentions. Do you remember? We were thinking about our intentions. Now I want you to share with your partner your intentions. Maybe only one. Maybe only two. Maybe three. I want you to share what is your intention for taking this lecture. Did you have the same intentions or different intentions? More or less the same. Did someone have different intentions? Same intention? Can I know your intentions? Can someone tell me? Volunteer? We want to learn and then try to put in practice what we have learned and see if it works to continue. Do you have the same intention or a different intention? More or less? Do you have a different version? Okay, alright. Something different? Can we take the mic, the other one at the same time? We have to not give it back to the other one personally and fill it on our line and then transmit it to our students. So first fill it inside and then teach it. Do you agree? Yes. Any other intention here? That's okay. I'm just asking because I'm very curious. That's okay. Very good. I'm going to ask you now to go to your handouts, the handouts that I have given you and I'm going to ask you to go to the second page. Go to the second page. Now that you are in this mood more connected to yourselves now I'm going to propose you to do an activity which is a very private activity. I want you to think and feel very deeply in your hearts and feel in this table that you have in activity too. It says daily experience which new situations do you face in clear settings that you haven't experienced in your regular teaching practice. This is the general question. I am going to ask you to think about how this clear change affects children and does it have any relationship with your need to give attention to diversity? I also want you to consider even these clear settings parents have a different problem with teaching with their children. Is this situation different and it causes different feelings and worries on parents and I also want you to consider your clear colleagues your workmates do you notice in your workmates a different attitude is there something different in your colleagues if they belong to a clear setting in contrast to a non-clear a regular setting but most importantly I want you to think about how you feel on what you have in your mind when you are in a clear setting does it create on you a different feeling a different set of worries of preoccupations I want you to think about this just consider one item per column so one thing that you think about children one thing that you have identified or maybe not in parents are clear parents more worried or less worried if they are in which way and in your workmates and above all focus on how you feel and what you think and the challenges that you have ahead you don't really need to write if you don't want to but I want you to have a clear idea of your intention when taking this workshop and these differences that you appreciate in clear settings in all the members of the educative system okay think about that if you want to write no problem I'm going to give you one minute per column and I will play the gong every minute to let you know okay I will start by playing it so you start now with your first column