The first scientific study on the method was made by Ole Henning Sommerfelt at the Peace Study Centre at the University in Tromsö in Norway. (Ole Henning Sommerfelt: The Dream of the Good – A Peace education project, 2004) The results were improved ability to react with calm and non-violence in provocative situations, improved empathy and a developed group harmony with less provocations. Observations in pre-school confirmed that also the younger pre-school children had become less aggressive.
The practices were later researched by Yvonne Terjestam, (PhD and Associate professor at the Linnaeus university) in two projects Children in Balance I (2004) and II (2012) with very good results: reduced mental ill health, less emotional problems and stress, improved peer relations, and well-being, less psychological problems and a tendency toward improved self-image.
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