Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Schools, “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: in the present moment, on purpose, and non-judgmentally.”

I’m surrounded by teachers. Members of my family are teachers. Many of my friends are teachers. Hundreds of my former students are now teachers. Even my next door neighbour is a teacher. That’s a lot of teachers in my life. The words I hear many of them say is “this is by far the hardest year of teaching I’ve ever had.”