Date: 10th October, 2022
Time: 08.30 am -01:00 pm.
Venue: Multipurpose Hall (St. Teresa’s Institute Of Education)
Name of Co-ordinators: Dr. Joan Lopes & Dr. Reshma Rodrigues
Names of resource people: Mrs. Rakhi Arora, Mrs. Poonam Gupta, Mrs. Kavita, and Mrs. Kirti.
Details of resource people: Trainers of the Heartfulness committee.
Total Number of Students and faculty: 48

Objectives: To encourage the students to be more heartfelt and to include heartfulness in everything they do in their day to day life, to practice meditation and pay attention to each and every part of their body and mind, to relax the entire body and soul by developing heartful communication skills.

Heartfulness is a heart-centered approach to life, where you will ideally be able to live each moment by the heart. It is to live naturally, in tune with the noble qualities of a heart, enlightened and refined through spiritual practice. Heartfulness is a simple and subtle practice of meditation that connects each of us with the light and love in our hearts. A heartfulness workshop was organised at St. Teresa’s Institute Of Education on 10th October, 2022. The workshop was held in the multipurpose Hall, at 8:30 a.m. in the morning. Four members from heartfulness committee came to conduct this workshop, Mrs. Rakhi, Mrs Poonam, Mrs. Kavita and Mrs. Kirti; they were the trainers of the workshop committee.

The workshop started with a brief introduction of all the 4 resource person by the co-ordinators of the workshop i.e., Dr. Reshma Rodrigues and Dr. Joan Lopes, they introduced and welcomed all of them who came to conduct the workshop for the day. The first speaker of the day Ms. Rakhi Arora came and introduced herself and then addressed the FY.B.Ed students about heartfulness and what exactly does it mean. She also introduced about their heartfulness committee, their mission, who are they and about their present work. She started the talk with a question and then gave information on the 2 main elements of the heartfulness workshop which was practicing heartfulness as a person and as a teacher.

She also addressed the audience on heterogeneous learners and gave an in depth knowledge about the heartfulness tool for day 1 of the workshop and then led the audience into a meditation exercise which continued around 20 minutes till 11:00 am. After this there was a break of 15 minutes and then the session continued from 11:15 am. The second speaker for the day was Poonam ma’am. She started her talk with a question to the audience i.e., “Who is a teacher?” and further addressed the crowd on importance of a teacher, moulding the students, teacher as a mentor, guide & mother. She also gave information about the present life of a teacher and how teaching is a demanding and the most noble profession among all the other professions.

After this, all the students were asked to stand in their respective places and a fun filled exercise called head, shoulders, knees and toes was done which was followed by a group activity where all of them were divided into 4 groups and a group activity called pair and share was conducted. The session came to an end with a Formal Vote of Thanks was proposed by Sanida Nunes. The feedback form was given to all the students to know their liking and disliking of the workshop and also their inputs. The workshop was a grand success and it really led an impact on each and every student.