As part of Mental Health Awareness, St Edward’s College is promoting a Healthy Heart and a healthy Mind. All too often, we tend to justify and compartmentalize our actions. “I had to do this” is something we tend to say, frequently because we are uncomfortable with an action we have taken. Our Heart is not at peace, it is not healthy. When that happens, our mind is stressed. Kindness, on the other hand, brings peace to the giver as well as the receiver creating a healthy mind and heart.
Spearheaded by Nurse Flora, this campaign seeks to promote kindness and awareness of the peace that it brings with it. The students have been given a kindness card where they can fill in an act of kindness and have it acknowledged by a supervisor (member of staff). At the end of the month-long campaign, a Kindness Wall will be displayed so that all students will be able to see what (not who) acts of kindness happened throughout the college.
