Dhamma Sugandha, Bhose near Miraj, Sangli

MITRA Resource Person:

For starting MITRA program in School/College it is essential to have Program Resource Person

To start MITRA Project in school/college, it is useful & necessary to have at least one Trained Teacher as Resource Person responsible for implementation of MITRA Project. A teacher who has completed a 10 day Vipassana course or at least 1 day MITRA Project training be made the Resource Person.

Steps:

1. Formation of MITRA committee/Team – School/college level team may be formed to assist the recourse person in implementation of Mitra Project. Principal /Supervisor, Resource Person, two parent-teacher representatives, two local Vipassana meditators, two students a girl and a boy could form the MITRA team.

2. MITRA orientation Training for teachers : All facility members including Principal, supervisor and interested parents should be given full information about the Mitra Project & orientation training of Anapana Meditation using Mitra Training Material.

3. MITRA orientation Training for students : At the beginning of every semester students and teachers should be given Anapana orientation training. How to practice every day should be explained or any queries /doubts should be cleared.

4. Daily Anapana Practice : This is the main & most important essential activity of MITRA. Every day in the morning & evening at home & at the beginning and end of

Orientation & Training

Sessions I : Training session for Principal/ other teachers & interested parents

Approx time 3 hours
• Introduction to MITRA 5 minutes
• Discourse for parent and teachers: 55 minutes audio CD.
• Introduction of Anapana which will be taught to students: 70 minutes audio tracks.
• Practice session for 10 mins
• Planning & Making Arrangements for Training of students & daily practice

Session II - Training session for Students : Approx time 70-75 mins

• Session I – Introduction 16 min
  1. For students from 5th to 8th standard : Folder 1
  2. For students of 9th and 10th standard : Folder 2

Session III - Daily practice of Anapana : The main activity of MITRA Program

• After completion of initial Anapana Training, daily practice should be started with the students. School teachers, headmaster, staff must also participate.
• This daily practice has to be done for 10 mins when the schools starts during assembly after National anthem and 10 mins when schools ends before students leave for home.
• For 10 mins practice, tracks are provided in the training CD, which may be played through a CD player, or copied on the mobile phones/ PC and played via them.
• In schools where centralized Public Announcement audio system with speaker in each class room/ corridor is available, practice can be in classrooms immediately after national anthem and before closure of school. The Anapana practice sound track can be stored in a mobile phones of teachers & used for daily practice in classrooms.

Session IV : Review & Retraining : The schools committee to check the at least once every semester the changes/benefits to the students & assess the effectiveness of the program.

All primary & secondary schools in Maharashtra , Government or Privately managed, Aided or Unaided and Registered With Any Education Board are covered under this Program. All students from 5th to 10th standard & all teachers are to participate in this Program.

At least one teacher per schools is to be trained as MITRA Teacher to carry out schools level trainings & daily practice which the main activity of the MITRA Project.