Meditation with Children: A Resource for Teachers and Parents

Children today are living in a fast-paced world where one solitary voice can easily get lost amid the din. Regular meditation helps children to relax, generate energy and confidence, become aware of their innate goodness and engage more compassionately with their peers. Meditation with Children: A Resource for Teachers and Parents is a helpful guide to Christian meditation for children. The book encourages adults to experience meditation for themselves and equips them with the tools to introduce the practice to children, including simple lesson plans that can be implemented at home, in the classroom or on a whole-school basis. Noel Keating explores what the wisdom traditions and religions of the world say about meditation and identifies the practical rewards and spiritual fruits that arise from regular meditation. Featuring excerpts from interviews with Irish primary school children who have practised meditation regularly in the classroom, the book also gives voice to their first-hand experiences of its benefits, both psychological and spiritual. 

Dr. Noel Keating has spent forty years in the education sector in Ireland, as a teacher, principal and education officer. Now retired, he is voluntary coordinator of the Meditation with Children Project, which involves thirty-two thousand children, who meditate several times each week on a whole-school basis, across one hundred and fifty primary schools throughout Ireland.