SMART Programme in Denmark
The Art of Living SMART stands for
- stress management
- rehabilitation training
SMART besteht aus einer Kombination von Meditation, Atemtechniken und Körperübungen. Das Programm wird jungen Menschen angeboten, die straffällig wurden, Drogenprobleme haben oder durch aggressives Verhalten auffällig wurden.
The S.M.A.R.T. courses offers a unique stress management program is a valuable tool for those working to end the cycle of violence, abuse and hatred in society whether through law enforcement, social rehabilitation or human development.
The cornerstone of the program uses dynamic breathing techniques to release the accumulated effects of stress from the nervous system and helps to manage negative emotions in a safe and non-violent manner.
Reported benefits include improved sleeping patterns, ability to accept responsibility for past actions and ability to handle conflict and stressful situations non-violently. By gaining the ability to handle stressful situations with more calm and clear thinking, participants report improved confidence and self-control to make positive changes in their behavior and in their lives.
Project management
The Project manager are
Jakob Lund, Breathe/Prison SMART instructor and
Helle Balsby, Breathe/Prison SMART instructor.
Jakob Lund is Director of the SMART programs in Scandinavia, this includes Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. He is instructor in marshal art and conducting courses inside and outside prison for persons who have problems with drugs, crime and violent behaviour; and for prison staff, psychologist, social workers and other persons involved in this area. He is working mostly in Scandinavia and Morocco. In his house in Holte he has a treatment centre for marginalized youngsters using meditation, marshal art, social support work together with the SMART courses.
Activities
Beside monthly courses for social marginalize young people Jakob Lund has during the last 5 years been conducting programs for:
- Inmates in The Governmental Prison of Horserød, Governmental Prison of Ringe and The Lysholmgaard Prison Pension
- The DAC school of Copenhagen educating Addictions Counselors
- Staff of the Prison and Probation service in Copenhagen
Employs in the public social sector, such as social counselors, social workers have been taking courses themselves as well. Also staff from the police have taking the course.
Talks
Jakob Lund has been giving public talks in DK regarding how to deal with drug abuse, violence and criminality in the society, in:
- Prison and Probation service in the city of Ballerup, Helsingør, Hillerød and København
- Public municipal centers of Lyngby, Hørsholm and Hillerød
- Treatments center for drug abuse in Søllerød and Lyngby
- Alcohol ambulatories in Copenhagen
- Rotary Club of Søllerød
In cooperation with project coordinator Marie Louise Jørgensen from Department of Justice Jakob Lund has been giving a seminar concerning how to deal with drugs, criminal and violent behavior in the gipsy society in Prague.
Helle Balsby, Master in philosophy and psychology worked 4 years as drug abuse researcher at the university in Denmark. She ist also instructor in boxing. She is conducting courses together with Jakob and alone in the same area also with youngster with drug problems (15-18 years). Furthermore she is working together with Jakob in the treatment centre.
SMART in Dänemark
The first SMART course was taught in Denmark, in the beginning of the year 2000. The affectivity of the courses is now being recognized by the Danish Department of Justice and the municipality (local authority). Several courses is each month been giving in both the Danish prison of Horserød (Prison SMART) and in his SMART institution in Holte (Breathe SMART).
The participates on the Breathe SMART courses is mostly young people having problems with drugs, aggressive behavior and criminality. They are sent from the public social offices, the department of social services or from the Prison and Probation service to do the course.
Inmates who have done the Prison SMART program while serving there prison sentence, is, in the last period of serving sentence, giving permission to do follow-up-program (rehabilitation) in the SMART institution outside of prison.
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