Children love to meditate. Madeline Simon has described children as “born contemplatives” suggesting that children take to meditation “like ducks to water.” John Main says that meditation opens the human heart and that this is as natural as the opening of a flower.
We believe that to teach meditation to children is to give them a gift for life. Typically children meditate for one minute per of age.
In November 2012 we began to promote the practice of silent meditation with children on a whole-school basis. By March 2020, when the pandemic struck, there were over 250 schools participating in the project and over 50,000 children had been introduced to the practice of meditation.
We offer free in-service training to primary schools, without obligation. The in-service program is informed by Noel Keating’s doctoral research into the child’s experience of meditation and its fruits. To find out more about this free offer, please download our information leaflet by clicking on the appropriate image below. If you wish to apply for the free training, please download the application form and return the completed form children@christianmeditation.ie
When we receive an application we will contact the school to arrange a date for a two-hour in-service session which normally takes place after school during what are known as ‘Croke Park hours.’ To find out more about the in-service programme, click on the first icon below.
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