WELLNESS AT ST PATS
Wellbeing is connected with how we accept ourselves in the NOW. Whatever we are feeling will ultimately affect the way we see our world. If we are happy then life is amazing and we are energetic conversely if we are sad life is drab and our energy is stagnant. How we move through our feelings is the key to our happiness. All feelings are neither “good” nor “bad”. Feelings are our human bodies way of warning, releasing and responding to stimulus from our world. Our job is, over a lifetime of practise, to manage how to express our feelings in an appropriate way so as to be true to ourselves. This term 4 our focus is on Friendship and in my role as Wellbeing Coach at St Pats I have been facilitating workshops unpacking the idea that friendship is not about the other person but about our own self esteem and tapping into our strengths. Questions like;
Challenge students at St Pats to seek out those students who model friendship naturally, ask them the questions above, so as to gain insight into what friendship looks and feels like. More insights coming soon.
The students in the Empowered Program are well underway on their journey of self-understanding. For the first two week the students were invited to LISTEN…..listen to what others said to them, Listen to their own self talk and listen to their heart. As we were discussing how the mind tries to trick us but that the heart never lies, Zoe a student from Grade 1/2 R put up her hand and shared her insight:
A mindfulness challenge is given at the end of each session and under the listening theme all students were invite to say the following words before they go to sleep and the first thing they do in the morning:
This week the theme was FEEL. Having two Empowered sessions this week the students explored energy vibrations. The students listened to the vibration of a singing bowl and pointed to where on their body they felt the vibration. They were also given thermal photographs of 14 different emotions and were asked to make conclusions about the colours predominantly showing on the upper part of the body. The most fascinating emotion that multiple students observed was the blue colour of the emotion depression whereas love was yellow and red. On a worksheet with the outline of a body the students were invited to place five different colours representing five different emotions inside the outlined body. The mindfulness practise was to;
These challenges are given to build up your child’s resilience and power throughout the Empowered Program. For true power comes from within and we are the only person who can give ourselves this internal strength.
The clubs began this week and were well attended. The clubs on offer for the next three weeks are; Disney Club, Fun and Fitness Club, Handwriting Club, Basketball Comp, Nature Drawing club and Arts and Craft Club.
