Last weekend, we attended, for the second consecutive year, the meeting organized by ASEDEM (Spanish Association of Emotional Education) in Seville, with about 600 people who convened this interesting and motivating event.

This is an opportunity to create a network among professionals, share ideas and initiatives, and, ultimately, continue to promote emotional education among all, especially those who accompany children daily.

From our school, we have been committed to this educational dimension since the beginning of the project, which we consider fundamental to the integral development of children.

Each school year, we include in our reflection and planning processes the team training tools, materials, and dynamics that help us put into practice the objectives that we consider priorities in this aspect.

We appreciate all the proposals from the speakers at the Congress. We have collected and shared them with our colleagues, and we have already begun to implement some of the ideas shared in our school’s Montessori environments, such as dancing with the letters of our name to generate connection and trust among primary school children at the beginning of the school year.

From everything they shared, we would highlight the importance of adults in this process. As Miriam Tirado said, we come from centuries of emotional illiteracy, of inhibiting and denying emotions because they were annoying. Now, we want to recognize them, accompany them, and give them their place. However, as Carlos Odriozola made clear in his presentation, it is not always easy for us as adults since it requires a lot of self-observation and personal work.

It was a good reminder to listen to the importance of attachment, bonds, movement, and art in the service of education, nutrition as a critical factor in physical and mental health, and the recognition of emotions in our body “beyond naming emotions,” as the title of Gorka Saitua’s presentation read.

We were very pleased with ASEDEM’s recognition of the winners on Saturday afternoon, especially for the colleagues of “Rumbos Educación Emocional”, with whom we collaborate in different ways with our school’s students and families.

We encourage you all to look inside yourselves, as we do every day, to know ourselves better and offer our children the best possible support.