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 ABIDING HEART EDUCATION 

Experiential Contemplative Learning 
 

We offer full time Experiential Contemplative Kindergarten and Primary (class 1-8) teacher training courses, Experiential Contemplative Foundation Studies, and other personal & professional development courses and retreats for educators, teachers, parents and anyone caring for children, including their own inner child.

 

Abiding Heart Education™️ is a new approach to children’s education that embraces contemplative paths of inner development that are rooted in ancient wisdom. The aim of Abiding Heart is to educate towards inner freedom through a journey of re-discovering our innate goodness, our true nature. This unique approach is centred on experiential and contemplative learning, fostering a process of transformation and the development of wisdom and compassion. 

The Abiding Heart Education™️ approach has been conceptualised and developed by Dr Meyrav Mor since 2000. Embedded in this approach is a method to create bespoke curriculums (for kindergarten to class 12) and teacher training courses that meet the specific needs of local communities from diverse global backgrounds. A working example of this adaptable approach is Abiding Heart's bespoke Experiential Buddhist Education for Buddhist communities around the world, which we developed and implemented since 2017 in the Himalayas.               

Founded by Dr Meyrav Mor, Abiding Heart Education™️ fosters transformative learning. This education approach is a fusion of contemplative and meditative traditions that are rooted in ancient wisdom, together with contemporary learning approaches and developmental science. Contemporary developmental science is an interdisciplinary scientific field that brings together paediatric, developmental psychology, developmental neuroscience and neurodiversity, child development, the ecology of human development, sociology and anthropology. Over more than two decades, Dr Meyrav Mor, with the aid of experts and teaching practitioners, have been conducting research that informs Abiding Heart's courses compositions and methodology as well as our children’s curricular content and learning approach.

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"Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind."~Garchen Rinpoche

 

In the Abiding Heart’s curriculum, for kindergarten through to class 12, all subjects taught are immersed within contemplative traditions that focus on developing wisdom and compassion. Our unique awareness and mindfulness meditations, and loving kindness and compassion contemplations are integral to each main lesson theme. These practices are also peppered throughout the day, embracing short times many times style, which is developmentally more suitable for children. Our curriculum content is also grounded in sense of place, nature and local heritage to foster another measure of wellbeing in children. Our learning approach cultivates a balance of the intellectual, affective, meditative and action or doing domains and how that informs our everyday life. In this wholesome education way, the aim of the Abiding Heart Education™️ approach is to nurture in children (and their teachers)  the seeds of progressing on the path to freedom and re-discover their true awakened nature. 

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In the Abiding Heart approach, we celebrate our rich diversity and common humanity as a way of recognising that ,in essence, we all have the same wish, that is, to be happy and not to experience suffering. Therefore, through all our teacher training lessons, be it lectures, art and crafts, or curriculum preparation, we engage in a process of understanding, contemplating and meditating. 

A Centre for Experiential Contemplative Learning 

Our teacher training and other courses are taught by a team of acclaimed local and international academics and experts in education, pedagogy, contemplative studies, developmental science, neuroscience, movement, therapeutic education, healing practices, crafts and the arts.

Full-Time Courses: 

  • Kindergarten Teacher Education Course. This training is for existing teachers, aspiring teachers and educators.

  • Primary (class 1-8) Teacher Education Course. This training is for existing teachers, aspiring teachers and educators.

 

Short Courses:

  • Experiential Contemplative Foundation Studies Course 

  • Human Development Course for educators, teachers, parents and anyone interested in deepening their understanding on nature of reality and human development

  • Designing a Bespoke Waldorf Curriculum: Integrating sense of place, heritage and contemplative education in Waldorf schools. This course is open to Waldorf teachers only. 

Workshops:

 

Becoming: A series of short Contemplative Parenting Workshops

Short Study Retreats:

  • On Tomlin Love and Relationships. For anyone interested in personal development and enrichment. 

  • Teachers Matter: Caring for teachers through learning to be: This personal development retreat for teachers is sprinkled with arts, awareness and mindfulness meditation, loving kindness and compassion contemplative practices, sharing our life stories and meals, socialising, being in nature and rejuvenating. This course is beneficial for all teachers of all education traditions. 

 

Our full time and short courses are a hybrid of online and in-person classes and self study. Our delightful study retreats are in-person attendance only. We cater our courses for local, regional and global communities. 

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Abiding Heart Education is located in Dumfriesshire. Set in glorious, very rural, countryside, our centre is surrounded by pastoral land, enclosed in rolling hills and meandering rivers.  This location is designed to help our students immerse in learning that engages the head (intellectual), heart (affective and meditative) and hand (doing and applying). This area of outstanding natural beauty also supports learning to let go and just be. This is an essential part of the transformative process of integration and embodiment. 

Upcoming Courses

Full Time Contemplative Teacher Education Courses

Kindergarten Teacher Education Diploma 

Primary Teacher Education Diploma

21 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024

Part Time Teacher Training Courses Route

The following 6 short courses form part of our full-time two-year teacher education

programmes and are offered also as stand-alone courses. 

We are offering these courses for students who are unable, at this point, to commit to

our full-time teacher training or would like to try some of our courses first before

deciding whether to continue with the whole programme. 

 

For more information or an informal chat, please contact our admissions coordinator admissions@abidingheart.education

Short Courses

21 Feb 2024

29 July 2024

Dates TBC

18 Feb 2024

We offer short courses in Scotland's Traditional crafts and Himalayan sacred art fused with contemplative ecology, awareness and mindfulness meditation...in celebration of our common humanity.

To learn more, please click on the links above and below.

Dates TBC

Study Retreats

Workshops

5 Jul 2024

Dates TBC

Contemplative Parenting

We offer curated workshops for parents at each stage of their path of parenthood.

 To learn more, please click on the links above and below.

Under the Rose Apple Tree: Awareness Middle

Childhood (age 6 to 10)

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