The Department of Education takes the MIndfulness to the schools of the municipality

Mindfulness, the technique of meditation that helps concentration of attention and awareness, reaches the classes of the schools of the municipality through of a cycle of workshops that the council of Education, aimed at students in 6th grade of Primary Education.

The workshops, which began successfully last Monday at the CEIP "El Recuerdo" and that they will repeat every Monday in the rest of the centers, they are taught by a psychologist who shows how to create a Space of Silence in the center, where to promote the practice of meditation and attention full in the day to day.

Once created by the promoters of the workshop, the Space of Silence will be self-managed by the educational community of each center whose members Interested parties will receive a small introductory course.

Recent studies have highlighted the usefulness of Mindulfness among the youngest to improve concentration, regulation of emotions, compassion and kindness as well as prosocial skills such as empathy, patience or joy. In the day to day of the center Spaces of Silence can serve as relaxation and preparation