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Promoting Inclusive Education through Wellbeing: Register now to FRIENDS final conference
On the 4th of December starting from 09:00 am, the Final conference of the FRIENDS project will be held at the Sky Room 1 of the Royal Library of Belgium - Brussels. It will be a unique moment during which the FRIENDS consortium will share with school communities,...
Next face to face dissemination meeting in UK
The next ‘Face to face dissemination’ meeting of the FRIENDS project will be held on Thursday 26th September 2019, starting from 4.30 p.m. in the beautiful location of the Maharishi Peace Palace, in Rendlesham – UK. Here, local learning communities implementing the...
Free Conference ‘SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH EDUCATION’, UK
You are warmly invited to an afternoon 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, will be presented....
2° Face to face dissemination meeting in Lisbon
Are you involved or interested in education and inclusion? Would you like to know more about a special programme that improves social relations in schools, fostering social inclusion? Come to our 2nd FACE TO FACE DISSEMINATION MEETING that will be held in Lisbon on...
1° Free Seminar of the FRIENDS project
The 1° Free Seminar of the FRIENDS project will be held on Thursday the 9th of May in Lisbon! The FRIENDS Seminar of the 9th of May entitled “EDUCATION FOR INCLUSION THROUGH QUIET TIME/TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION” will start at 2:00 p.m. and will be held at the...
FRIENDS! Fostering resilience and non-discrimination in schools now is possible with the Quiet Time/Transcendental Meditation programme in educational systems across Europe!
The FRIENDS project has seen its further advancement through the 2° partners meeting taking place in Brussels on the 30th November 2018. On this occasion, partners met up at the headquarters of Maharishi Institute of Vedic Science in Brussels in order to discuss the...
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...