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“Transition is part of life…the only thing you can rely on in life is impermanence. If you try and hold things still too much and set them in stone, then change won’t happen. We need to be prepared to deal with change.”
This week we talk to Major Pat Burgess, MBE, The Armour Centre Bovington and Sara White, Principal at Bovington Academy (part of The Aspirations Academy Trust).
Major Pat has been delivering mindfulness sessions to pupils at Bovington Academy to help them deal with anxiety and prepare for their transition to secondary school. We hear about how the army and the school work in partnership and the benefits of applying mindfulness techniques in a school setting.
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Major Pat said: ”“I don’t remember having any problems sleeping as a child, but I was struck when I asked children ‘how are we sleeping?’ Lots of children put their hands up and expressed anxiety and sleeplessness, worried about what was going to happen the next day.”
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