The aim of the project was to achieve an improvement in the soft skills (deepening self-knowledge, improving emotional wellbeing, improving attention and concentration processes, strengthening self-esteem, improving the capacity for effective and creative problem-solving) of all the school staff, both teaching and non-teaching, to whom the project was addressed. These skills, through the development of emotional intelligence and self-awareness, as well as being fundamental for creating a quality relationship with students and colleagues, greatly reduce the stress that often results from working in a school environment. The implementation of methodologies based on self-awareness and emotional control such as Mindfulness, in fact, are not only useful for the language teacher or the CLIL teacher, but for all staff who wish to improve their level of well-being, their relational systems and consolidate their method with the new good practices already widespread in other European countries.
Our institute participated in the Erasmus KA101 call because, as a result of the Improvement Plan, students have difficulties in English. It was therefore necessary for teachers to adopt innovative methodologies to stimulate their interest and improve their performance. From previous analyses, we had found that one of the teachers' training needs was to acquire a greater and more concrete awareness of their environment and working context in both personal and institutional terms. This is why strategies to deepen self-knowledge, improve well-being through emotional regulation processes, improve attention and concentration processes, and strengthen self-esteem to promote effective and creative problem-solving skills could have been useful for our primary target: the students.