Mindfulness and Mediation as Tools for Educational Leaders

Educational Leaders
Adv. Dr Manish Das

Empowering Leadership Tools

We are very much aware of terms like Mindfulness and Mediation which play a very vital role in day-to-day life. Mindfulness in simple layman’s terms means being aware of the surroundings and not overreacting whereas Meditation means two different parties mutually agree to negotiate with a common resolution.

In today’s scenario as we all know proper education is the foundation of the nation and it is building the better tomorrow as a society at large. Moreover, if we talk about good education then we need good educational institutions with good infrastructure, books and most importantly good Educational leaders.

We firmly believe that without good educational leaders, a quality education cannot be delivered and shared with the present learners. As we know many of us will admit that today what we are in our lives is because of good educational leaders or mentors who had really given us a source of belief in us to pursue our potential or talent and really help us to move forward.

For Educational Leaders to deliver a better prospective outcome, Mindfulness and Meditation are very important tools for delivering calm, accurate, value-added, impactful, and result-oriented output.

We need to do a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats) Analysis

Strength

  • Discipline: Helps to maintain a standard to obey rules and regulation.
  • Focus and Re-focus: Helps in concentration and focus again from distraction.
  • Perseverance: To stick to something even in tough or difficult times.
  • Artificial intelligence: To fill the gap when inexperience human intelligence fails to deliver.
  • Emotionally Confident: Helps to deliver even in emotional state, stress or workload environment.

Weakness

  • Mental Emotion: This helps to rejuvenate and help others to move ahead.
  • Communication: Sometimes there may be lots of barriers like good.communication skills to make others understand but with these 2 tools it will be highly helpful.
  • Constraints: It may be place, technology, time, etc.

Opportunities

  • Accessible: If it is accessible and if we can make it a part of our life with the help of artificial intelligence
  • Applying on Time: It will be of no use if it is not applied on time.
  • Connecting the dots: If one cannot connect the dots and make it gets going with the available tools for a better breakthrough.

Threats

  • Time: If this tool is not used timely then it will not be helpful at all, so the timing is very important.
  • Update of the tools: Proper utilization of tools with new inclusion of different methodology.
  • Global Awareness: Future upcoming which can be treated in the growth of the education learning process or the education which might be not resourceful.

Conclusion

Besides this analysis, these tools are highly effective and worthy for a better tomorrow and building a great nation with a strong educational background of teachers and quality learners and can be future global representatives, leaders and ambassadors of high values. These tools not only enable one individual mentally, physically and emotionally but also quick decision-makers and buoyant for a better tomorrow in the field of quality education globally.

Article Credits: Adv. Dr Manish Das

Author cum Advocate at Supreme Court of India