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EW SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

Evergreenarians Mindfully Breathe

in the Power of Now

students share success stories of how
the intervention helped them to overcome
their limitations, complete rarities, build
enriching relationships at the workplace
and home, gain stronger coping skills,
enhance learning prowess and superior
capabilities, the school average also
showed exponential growth.
Post-Covid, the school is continuing
with the programme with focus on the
most emotionally vulnerable group -- the
Board students -- even as she gets her
school counsellor trained in NLP for a more
efficient handling of the mental well-being
of students and staff.
vergreen Public School, Vasundhara Enclave, Delhi believes Guided by her inner calling and the strong scientific evidence
in consistent and systemic evolution of its students and staff available today, she began her quest on ways to integrate
Eso that the butterfly effect is felt through its ever-growing mindfulness into the school curriculum. The school management
ecosystem across all dimensions. is the wind beneath her wings as she busies herself in designing
The school principal Priyanka Gulati who is currently a new curriculum for preschool-class VIII students based on Thich
undergoing training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a Nhat Hanh’s principle of mindfulness as she strives to empower
staunch believer in the power of the unconscious mind and on how little minds on the power that lies in their breath.
this can be utilised to clearing the cobwebs of limiting beliefs and Students look forward to each day of enriching life experiences
negative patterns of thinking and coping, to unleash the genius as they engage in an immersive learning culture using all their
lying dormant in every individual. sensory organs for a wholesome bountiful education. They
The profound negative impact of social media on young minds, are learning to identify and differentiate between thoughts and
the insanely intense stress of the times on the community coupled emotions, to park aside baggages of bitterness, anger, resentment
with the high rate of suicide among students due to poor coping etc. and understand that happiness does not lie in accumulation
skills, lack of interpersonal communication and a weak emotional of goods or good outcomes but can be found in simple everyday
fabric interwoven with threads of fear, phobia, low self-esteem, is acts of love, caring and sharing. Her team of committed teachers
a matter of grave concern and this is what prompted her to seek is undergoing training on the power of NOW as she co-creates
NLP experts so she could work on each student appearing for class with them, a happy community in pursuit of her vision of the new
X-XII board examinations and their teachers. tribe of torchbearers who will together ring in a new collaborative,
The results were for all to see. Not only did the staff and peace-filled, happy and harmonious world.

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