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Minutes your children have given on Nov. 25th.

On November 25th, 2009, a total of 71,862 minutes of stillness were pledged and given by children in schools all over the world. Many who took part commented on the power that stillness gives to unite people and to provide deep happiness. Next year, let's make it a million.

Exploring Stillness with Children and Young People

This page is intended to help introduce the idea of stillness to children, enabling teacher and child to discover that stillness is a place of happiness. It is a discovery process and the lesson plans on the website are to help teacher and child find an easy and natural way to find that happiness.

Stillness is a universal resource, utterly natural but easy to miss. It enhances concentration for the individual, practised by a whole class, settles the group allowing space to communicate and learn. At a deeper level it helps create a quiet atmosphere.

The lesson plans and ideas below are designed for younger children, they are simple but imaginative, allowing children to make their own discovery. The plans build up to an Assembly on November 25th when children can be aware of joining in a world wide stillness.

Please join in, register your school and we will put it on the map. You can pledge minutes of stillness in advance of justthisday and then send us the record on November 25th.

Interactive Map of schools around the world who have pledged minutes for Just This Day.

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Give minutes and put your school on the map by submitting the following form:

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