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COMMON QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

I want to try “The Dream of the Good” in my school. How do I start? What are the first steps?

The best way to start the process depends on the school situation. If you are the only one in your school who is aware of the techniques, we recommend a scientific lecture on site, as a first step.
If a group of teachers are interested, a theme day for the entire staff could be considered. On theme day everyone gets to try the different techniques and is offered an opportunity of deepening the study of the one that attracts them the most.
Another possibility is to arrange a course in any one of the techniques at your school. Please contact us so that we can help you make up you a strategy.

I have positive experiences of meditation and massage in the classroom. I would like my colleagues to understand what possibilities these techniques give, but they are too stressed out to stop and listen. What advice could you give me?

Maybe you could invite your colleagues to try one of the techniques that you have used in your classroom. You could do that at a teachers meeting or on a study day. Most people will find that a moment of relaxation or massage has a positive effect. Another possibility is to ask a student to come and tell, or to arrange a course.

Isn’t stillness and qigong dangerous for young people?

The techniques of The Dream of the Good are adapted to children and youngsters; their effects aren’t so powerful that there is reason for concern. Whereas, according to research, the hectic lifestyle and all the outside stimuli are huge health risks. Research on the Dream of the Good techniques has shown that they have very good effects on children’s and youngster’s the mental and physical health, and so has our experience.

I feel that I can’t make my students practice the Dream of the Good exercises, even though I believe in them. Can you help me?

The Dream of the Good has a big network of resource persons in Scandinavia. On our web site you can find out if there is anyone close to you.

I want to try the Dream of the Good techniques with my grade school students, but how will I get them interested?

Tell them that simple stillness exercises improve your self-esteem and make it easier to handle difficult emotions. We know from research that people who practice stillness exercises become healthier and more positive. Relaxation promotes your creativity and makes you happier! Let the students try the techniques briefly.

If any student is disturbing, give him/her something to read, or try Biodots. You can order them at www.biodots.net.

“Children and young people live in a world of constant and loud information, flowing in from the surrounding world. And it fills up their inner hard drive. No wonder, that it becomes replete and crashes one day. They are very vulnerable to the modern stress-related ill-health such as depressions, sleeping disorders, etc. They need to learn to be still.”

Yvonne Terjestam, PhD. Associate Professor School of Human Sciences, University of Kalmar

"I hope that we, south Africans, will never give up our belief in goodness and that we will safeguard our belief in human goodness as the foundation of our democracy." Nelson Mandela

"Everyone has a core of goodness within that we can touch with our actions and with which we can attain a more loving and open attitude to life.
Rules, group pressures, competition, grades, performance anxiety, puberty, sexuality, split families and stress create a huge need for their opposites in the form of stillness, reflecting attentive presence, fellowship in movement and peaceful touch.
One could say that there are four entrances to the core where love, compassion and peace reign and that you can't make outer peace with other people without this inner peace with yourself.
The path is practice and I tried in my teaching and mentorship to give the student group brief moments of such a practice."

Kjell Olsson, high school teacher, Stockholm

All the teachers agreed that The Dream of the Good methods had a calming effect on the students, and improved their ability to concentrate and focus on their school work.
Inner Peace outer Peace, a study by Marianne Henriksen on teachers using The Dream of the Good methods.
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