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FRIENDS final conference: Promoting Inclusive Education through Wellbeing
On December 4th 2019, the Final Conference of the FRIENDS project was held in Sky Room 1 of the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. It was a unique assembly during which the FRIENDS consortium shared with school communities, experts and other stakeholders in the...
Free Conference ‘SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH EDUCATION’, UK
On Thursday 26th September 2019 there was a free public conference, ‘SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH EDUCATION’, at which the interim results of the FRIENDS project, aimed at promoting respect for diversity, tolerance and social inclusion in the learning environment, were...
1st FRIENDS seminar “EDUCATION FOR INCLUSION THROUGH QT/TM” and 2nd face to face dissemination meeting in Lisbon
Our 2nd FACE TO FACE DISSEMINATION MEETING was held in Lisbon on the 9th of May 2019 at the Auditório Armando Guebuza of the Lusófona Library. This followed the first seminar of the FRIENDS project on “EDUCATION FOR INCLUSION THROUGH QUIET TIME/TRANSCENDENTAL...
FRIENDS! Fostering resilience and non-discrimination in schools now is possible through the Quiet Time with Transcendental Meditation programme in educational systems across Europe!
The FRIENDS project saw further advancement with the second Partners Meeting which took place in Brussels on November 30th 2018. On this occasion, partners met at the headquarters of Maharishi Institute of Vedic Science in Brussels to discuss the next steps of...
2° #Newsletter: The FRIENDS project is currently being implemented in schools across Europe!
In the schools that joined, trough the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM), during the twice daily 10/15 minutes Quiet Time breaks, students have been proven scientifically to become less aggressive, more inclined to establish positive relationships...
First face-to-face dissemination meeting in Brussels
How can schools benefit from the Quite Time based on Transcendental Meditation programme, easy to learn and favouring social inclusion in classrooms? The practice of the Transcendental Meditation within the Quite Time programme allows students, teachers, head teachers...
Transcendental Meditation in schools: less stress and more inclusion in the classroom with FRIENDS
How to promote social inclusion, tolerance and counter discrimination in schools? The new FRIENDS project started in January 2018 aiming at introducing an innovative whole school approach known as the Quiet Time based on the Transcendental Meditation programme (TM®)...
1° #Newsletter: “I love my school, with F.R.I.E.N.D.S.!”
Meditating at school now is possible. The FRIENDS project - acronym for ‘Fostering Resilience-Inclusive Education and Non-Discrimination in Schools’ - aims at introducing in schools an innovative but well researched approach to foster tolerant, inclusive...