Terri Allen visited to our school where she conducted an impactful and wonderful mindfulness visit with her award-winning book Magical Garden. Terri also held training with our staff on the Mindful Garden Program that we purchased for our school.  I think my favourite thing about this book is the fact that it is so child centred from the point of view that it helps them to address their emotions and the many things that can happen in our lives everyday lives by using characters and images throughout the book.

Exploring their emotions by just choosing a colour or a tree and it’s something that children can really understand it’s something concrete for them to be able to imagine and to use in their everyday life and that’s part of the book that I really enjoyed the fact that they are using the fundamentals of colors and

associating those colors with their emotions in creating their own garden, plus the appendix at the back of each to read about what’s going on emotionally it’s a powerful tool for any teacher. The teachers found these books a fantastic tool for them to use within the classroom, as they are dealing with very young children, it helped them identify how there where feeling and it was a wonderful tool for them to use on a daily basis to bring mindfulness into the classroom.