C1 – LTT1          Happy mind, happy life! (Slovenia)

               23. 2. – 24. 2. 2022 

AIMS:

The project promoted forming a good value system and social competence. The students developed multilingual competences, self-awareness and emotional skills, intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, personal expression, responsibility, confidence, flexibility, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, fellowship and teamwork skills as well as public speaking and presenting.

CONTENT:

* WHO ARE WE? (Each school presented their school and region via video.)

* Workshop: Get to know me – About me (A communication game, played in small, mixed groups which developed multilingual competence, social and communicative skills, cross-cultural skills, intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, personal expression, confidence, flexibility, critical thinking and ICT literacy and mindfulness.)

* Project’s Logo (Each country presented their logos. We voted for the logo of the project.)

* Workshop: Magic Stones (A meditation and self-reflection workshop. The students and teachers practised mindfulness, intrapersonal skills, personal expression, self-confidence, self-worth, self-awareness and the feeling of hope. The students gained some basic knowledge of guided fantasy meditation and colour psychology. This workshop helps with depression, anxiety and being overstressed. The students also became artists with using art as the means of personal expression. They also learnt what a person can find out about their personality and inner thoughts from the art work.

Have a look at the art works and some explanations of meaning according to colour and shape pshychology here.

* Mindfulness – Stairway to Happiness (An inspiring talk about mindfulness, positive self-talk, values and finding inner peace in today’s world.)

* Brain Breaks activity (Practising mindfulness through physical activity.)

* Workshop: Teamwork makes the dream work (A problem-solving team building game for developing multilingual competences, personal expression, responsibility, confidence, flexibility, solidarity, fellowship, teamwork skills, problem-solving skills and ICT literacy.

Have a look at the funny and interesting results of the solved tasks here.

METHODOLOGY:

We used ZOOM for the virtual meeting. We used Break rooms for groups work (one student per country). We pre-shared materials in Google Drive (each team watched longer videos in their classrooms). We also used many mobile apps for executing the activities.

RESULTS:

The students and teachers communicated with people in foreign languages (German and English), they spoke publically and presented their own ideas and opinions, they were encouraged to think about their attitude, values and their own strengths and weaknesses, they worked on their positive self-esteem and self-worth, they all actively cooperated in different social and team building activities fostering mindfulness.

PARTICIPANTS:

The people that participated in the meeting were teachers and students from the Erasmus+ Team from each school, the principles, other teachers as well as the Slovene project advisor from the NA.

INTEGRATION IN THE SCHOOL WORK:

The meeting was a part of each school’s annual plan. It was a part of Erasmus+ Club activities at each school.

THE BENEFITS OF THE PARTICIPANTS:

The main goal of the project is producing as many useful materials and exchanging good practises relating to mindfulness and overcoming teenage problems that can be further used at each school. The Slovene Team presented and executed different activities and provided all the needed materials, instructions and aims of activities and shared them with other teams over Google Drive and regular mail. Some of the activities were pre-recorded and are available for further use. The students involved in the meeting gained new skills, experiences and made new friends. The greatest benefit for all schools that participated is a pack of ready-made materials that can be used with other students in the future.