The Schoolfocusproject
Led by: Jos van den Brand, Focus trainer for children and adults
Marta Stapert and Jos van den Brand developed the schoolfocus-project. The project has been developed to teach children and their teachers focusing in primary schools in the Netherlands. I will tell you something about the genesis of the project. We had to deal with problems such as: a teacher is not a therapist, education is not psychotherapy. But it was our experience that in the Netherlands a group of primary school teachers is motivated to teach children how to deal with emotions that have a negative influence on the learning process. For example: how to deal with fear, tension, anger or sadness.
Teachers feel responsible to take care of these children. The match between focusing and education is: how to deal with negative and positive emotions in the classroom?
In this presentation I will you tell you something about the development of the program and my personal experiences with the schoolfocusproject.
I will show a video of a teacher in training that teaches a small group of young children focusing (5 years old).