Impact of Spiritual Greenery Activities

The Green School for Green Bhutan programme was implemented across all schools in Bhutan in 2010. This programme constitutes eight dimensions: environmental greenery, academic greenery, intellectual greenery, social greenery, spiritual greenery, cultural greenery, aesthetic greenery, and moral greenery. All schools across the country practise meditation and mind training/mindfulness as part of spiritual greenery activities. Additional spiritual greenery activities such as choesed leyram (religious discourse) annual rimdro (ritual), and green day are also implemented. Although spiritual greenery activities have been implemented in schools since 2010, not much is known about their impact due to limited literature. Using a qualitative design, data for the study were gathered from 28 participants from six school in Samtse district, Bhutan using a semi-structured interview. Thematic analysis was used for data analysis. The findings from the study showed that the implementation of spiritual greenery activities has positively impacted for both teachers and students.