Young people in Australia experience very high stress in schools, which has negative impacts on their academic performance and mental health. It is crucial schools teach students how to identify and best manage stress. These skills will continue to benefit them throughout their lives.

Common Ground – Meditation In Australia

An important online forum exploring the unique nature of meditation in Australia.

This event will gather First Nations Australian practitioners, thinkers and academics to explain and teach ancient Indigenous practices and stories representing the interconnected traditions of meditation, systems thinking and caring for Country deeply embedded in the original spirituality of Australia.

The program will also explore some of the more prominent cross-cultural meditation practices prevalent in this country since the 1960s, emerging from teachers in Indian and South East Asian traditions through to more recent psychologically-attuned approaches.

Saturday 29th May: All day forum, 10am – 6pm

Sunday 30th May: The Hangout, 11am – 12.30pm