When I’m mindful it feels good walking outside and I love listening to the birds and to the silence. I look around at everything that I was missing out on in the world like the flowers, the sky and everything else. – Tim, a grade ten student Every year I teach summer...
In order to facilitate a culture of curiosity we can provide students with opportunities to open their minds to questions and discussions about who they are and what they believe. Epiphanies usually come from curious minds. Once experienced, our minds are opened up a...
If all that we can control in life are our reactions to life…then meditation might just be the answer to reacting more favorably to any given situation. It is a brain strengthening tool to center us and to help us manage our reactions better and thus live more...
Research has proven the wide range of psychological benefits of meditation. For example, a 2012 review of 163 studies that was published by the American Psychological Association concluded that the Transcendental Meditation technique had relatively strong effects in...
Hello! It’s Jodi, founder of Imperative Education. You know, ever since I can remember I’ve been interested in how people communicate… how relationships are formed. At McGill University, I studied Communications so that I could take this focus from intuition to fact, and from serious interest to passion. I decided to become a teacher, like so many, to make a difference and that initial goal hasn’t paled at all throughout the years