Mindfulness as a tool for reducing harm and building social emotional intelligence in schools, Pt. 1
By Anna Brinkhuis As the old cliché goes, “If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” People often disparage so-called “band aid solutions because they only temporarily treat the symptoms of the problem, rather than the problem itself. But what if the man dies from starvation before you can teach him how to fish? What if the patient bleeds out on the way to the hospital before you can stop the hemorrhage? The an