Sonam became emotional when she realised how much care and trust her father-in-law had on her. " I realised that I must study better and prove myself worthy of his trust. I have not been a very good daughter. I assumed he is a bad father to me."
“ I have not been aware until today how I have been reactive to my friends. Knowing that there is a ‘space’ between stimulus and response will help me become better captain.” Sangay Zam shared at the closing session.
While classroom learning is a journey out into the curriculum, SIY is a journey into the heart, awakening conscience to deeper level of reflection, opening vaults of guilt and promises to transform how they live their small life beautifully.
If each of my student is infused with knowledge that their life is not defined absolutely by how they perform in academic performance, and that academics will give a job but to sustain and grow will require skills deeper than curriculum. That skill which will help them navigate school life to graduation to work life to marriage is emotional intelligence.
A tailored 6 hours SIY programme on Mindfulness Based and Emotional Intelligence is provided to student leaders and students of Dechentsemo in cohorts of 30 students. This initiative was undertaken as a result of several suggestion principal received from civil servants on his SIY training facilitation programme in four Dzongkhag. It was suggested that SIY must be provided to students to impact in their behaviour, academic, emotional status and to enable live better and happier lives.
The fact that EI can be trained even at student level opens opportunities to carve empathetic, focused and productive citizens. If adults have reported of life changing experiences from SIY training to revert their mindset and behaviour, it would definitely make an impact on students. Training students in Search Inside Yourself- provides possibilities reduce school behaviour problems and increase academic performance. This intelligence is known to have impacted in higher performance of leaders and deeper happiness in life of people.
The training is a beginning. In the weeks to come the training will be provided to students of classes IX, X and XI. This is facilitated by Lop. Tshering Dema, Lop. Karma Dorji and the principal.
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