Teaching from the Heart
- Bernard Beitman, MD
- Sep 17
- 2 min read
Adi Vickers shares how mindfulness and heart-centered teaching transform education.
What if education wasn’t just about information, but transformation?
In this week’s episode of Connecting with Coincidence, Dr. Bernard Beitman sits down with educator and counselor Adi Vickers to explore how teaching from the heart can change the way we learn, grow, and connect.
Adi’s journey in education has spanned continents and cultures, from Ireland and Italy to Laos and India. For more than three decades she has integrated spiritual presence, Rogerian counseling, and even hypnotherapy into her classrooms. Her approach is rooted in the idea that education can be a living, breathing exchange — one that nurtures compassion, awareness, and healing alongside traditional knowledge.
In the conversation, Adi shares how she has co-founded innovative projects like Asana International School in Ireland and A Place For Us in India, which brings holistic, heart-centered education to marginalized youth. Her pioneering work with teacher training programs shows how presence, mindfulness, and storytelling can create classrooms that are less about memorization and more about transformation.
Education, she suggests, can be a spiritual practice — not just for the student, but for the teacher as well. By showing up with authenticity and openness, teachers can create spaces where coincidences, synchronicities, and breakthroughs are more likely to occur. These are the “teaching moments” that stay with us for life.
Meet Adi now on the Connecting with Coincidence podcast:
Adi Vickers is an educator, counselor, and co-founder of Asana International School in County Kerry, Ireland, where she has championed holistic and transformative education since 1993. With over three decades of teaching experience across Ireland, Italy, Spain, Laos, and India, Adi integrates Rogerian counseling, NLP, and hypnotherapy into her approach to consciousness-based education.
She co-founded A Place For Us, an educational NGO in India that supports marginalized youth through integrative, heart-centered learning. Her work includes pioneering teacher training programs with the NGO Food For Life, and leading Ireland's first consciousness education initiative with the Alef Trust.
Adi is currently pursuing a PhD focused on transpersonal approaches to secondary education and continues to explore how presence, mindfulness, and storytelling can transform the classroom into a space of shared growth and healing.
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