UNESCO press freedom prize.
An independent organization for journalists in Sudan has been honoured for its commitment “to deliver accurate, lifesaving information” amid the ongoing civil war, the UN educational and cultural agency UNESCO announced on Thursday.
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Pamela would not start by calling the student distracted. She would start by noticing that the body is holding what the fragmented system has not been able to contain. In her Vajrayana and somatic tradition, the body holds what the mind avoids — and that held energy is not a defect but raw material. When the system names depth and care while producing fragmentation all day long, the body carries the cost.
From there she turns to the heart's intelligence. The question is not how to dominate attention. It is how to include the body in the response, so that what feels like a problem with the student can be seen as a truthful reading of a disordered learning environment — and the body can release what it has been holding.
That is the reframe: what feels like a personal fault — me, broken, wrong — is often the body accurately holding conditions that no learning environment should normalize. The problem is that the system and institutional structure keeps generating what the individual then carries alone. The practice is not to empty the body of feeling but to meet what is there so that the person can return to the work from steadier ground.
Pamela Fellows has seen this shift in practice rooms. It may help you as well.
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