Calm Start

Five quiet minutes to settle in.

Click the dice, or press Space
Roll the dice to pick a calming activity for the class.
Each face of the dice is a different kind of calm.

All activities

The dice lands on one of six kinds of calm, then picks an activity from that group. Click any activity to choose it directly.

Guided meditation

A two-minute visualisation that you read aloud while students sit with their eyes closed. Choose a script, or write your own to lead into today's lesson.

Leading the meditation

  1. Settle the room first. Screens off, hands empty, feet flat. Dim the lights if you can.
  2. Ask for eyes closed (or a soft gaze at the desk for anyone who prefers). Point to the eyes on screen.
  3. Read slowly – slower than feels natural. Drop your voice to just above a murmur. Each is a breath-length pause; each is a full, silent breath in and out.
  4. Do not rush the pauses. The silence is where the calm happens. Two minutes of reading should feel unhurried.
  5. Bring them back gently. Every script ends with the same return: notice the room, wiggle fingers, open eyes. Wait for the whole class before you speak at normal volume.

2:00
The bar is a pace guide: if you finish well before it does, slow down next time.

Write your own

A meditation that arrives at today's lesson makes the transition into work feel natural. Keep it to about 220 words and follow this shape:

  1. Arrive (2–3 lines): eyes closed, feet on the floor, two slow breaths.
  2. Go somewhere (3–4 lines): one place, described through the senses. What is under their feet? What is the air like? What sound is furthest away?
  3. Something to notice (3–4 lines): a small detail they can hold their attention on – light on water, one leaf, a single sound.
  4. Link to the lesson (2–3 lines): a gentle image, not an instruction. Networking? "Imagine every raindrop finding its way to the same river." Debugging? "Picture untangling a piece of string, one loop at a time, without pulling."
  5. Return (2–3 lines): the room, the chair, fingers and toes, eyes open when ready.

Tips: second person and present tense ("you are", "you notice"); say what they can sense, not what they should feel; one idea per sentence; put a pause after every one or two sentences; avoid anything scary, cold or lonely.

Meditation prompt tool (beta mode)

An AI model runs inside this browser tab – nothing is sent anywhere. It downloads once (about 1 GB) and is then cached by the browser.

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