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Thought for the Day: should mindfulness be taught in schools?

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The long summer holidays are almost over and school is back just next week. How many children listen to Thought for the Day on the Radio 4 Today programme at 7.50am as they pull on school uniforms and pack sports kits and musical instruments at the start of a new school day? I’m guessing probably not that many… But they miss out on some good stuff about them! Last Thursday I was in my kitchen piling fresh sandwiches into my lunch box as Vishvapani Blomfield read his latest Thought for the Day . I was stopped midway between slicing camembert and beefsteak tomatoes by some very thought-provoking words. Vishvapani is a Buddhist writer and mindfulness teacher based in Cardiff. According to his Wise Attention website his work explores how “time-honoured Buddhist practices such as mindfulness and meditation can be accessible forces for social change in the modern world”. My rhubarb yoghurt hit the lunch box. And Vishvapani was on to the recently published The Good Childhood Report – r...

Diwrnod yn Eisteddfod 2015 Our day at the Eisteddfod 2015

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Ar 5ed Awst bu ein tîm yn helpu ar stondin PAVO a Chyngor Gweithredu Gwirfoddol Cymru (WCVA) ar y cyd yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru . Cynhaliwyd yr eisteddfod eleni ar gaeau Mathrafal ger pentref Meifod yng Ngogledd Powys. I’r rhai hynny ohonoch sydd heb ymweld â’r Å´yl, gweler isod disgrifiad ohoni: On 5 August our team helped staff the joint PAVO and Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) stand at the National Eisteddfod of Wales which this year was hosted by the village of Meifod in North Powys. For readers who have yet to visit the annual Eisteddfod Festival, it is described as: “Uchafbwynt calendr diwylliannol Cymru, sy’n teithio o le i le, sy’n ymweld â’r Gogledd a’r De bob yn ail, a thrwy hynny’n rhoi cyfle i gymunedau ar draws y wlad groesawu hyd at 160,000 o ymwelwyr dros gyfnod o wyth niwrnod.” “The pinnacle of the Welsh cultural calendar, it travels from place to place, alternating between north and south Wales, giving communities across the country a chance to welc...

Freda Lacey on her new role in the Health and Social Care (H&SC) team, PAVO

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Handing over the role - Senior Officer Health & Social Care L - R: Trish Buchan (now on Powys Teaching Health Board), Freda Lacey (new in post) One of my Health and Social Care team colleagues recently said to me that I should introduce myself to the Sector and tell people who I am. Because I’ve worked for PAVO in the Mental Health team for several years, I’ve assumed people know who I am. However, I recently met and had a very good conversation with the manager of the Brecon Volunteer Bureau who hadn’t heard of me before, so, I thought it probably was time to make myself more widely known. The role I have been recruited to fill the vacancy of Senior Officer Health & Social Care, as left by Trish Buchan who is now the Third Sector Organisation rep on the Powys teaching Health Board. At the time I started the nature of the role needed to shift to respond to current changes within procurement and commissioning, both in terms of the national context with new European Union gui...