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Event
Power of Mindfulness to Schools
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Aruna Manathunge |
Aruna Manathunge, Dr Piyanjali de Zoysa and Dr Harsha Alles, Chairman
Gateway Group of Organisations at the introductory sessions to parents
of Grade 10 students of Gateway College, Rajagiriya, about an eight-week
Schools Mindfulness Program scheduled to begin shortly.
The immense value of the Power of Mindfulness to enhance productivity
in schools was realized by Sri Lankan mindfulness practitioners who got
together to develop methods to share the value of this powerful practice
with young students of Sri Lanka. The training program being introduced
to Gateway was developed and implemented by Aruna Manathunge, a
practitioner of Mindfulness Meditation, with the support of Dr Tara de
Mel, former Secretary Ministry of Education and a former senior lecturer
Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Saroj Jayasinghe, Head of the Department of
Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo, and Dr Piyanjali de
Zoysa Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine,
Colombo.
Pix by Lalith C. Gamage
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