AFT Voices: Mindfulness: A Way of Being
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Kathy Flynn-Somerville’s journey started in high school, when a substitute teacher introduced her class to mindfulness meditation. That was 45 years ago. Now Kathy is a leading mindfulness practitioner and teacher herself.
Kathy has devoted her career to embedding mindfulness meditation in public education.
“It began with personal exploration and progressed to ongoing formal, extensive trainings and developing routinized formal and informal practices,” she explains. “Then I talked with anyone who would listen, for years — including my union, teachers, parents, administrators and the school board. Working with these people from all walks of education, I was able to begin weaving mindfulness training into class time.”
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