article commentary: improving art-of-living trainings: implication of art-of-living trainings for primary school students

This commentary is referred to the studies by lang and schmitz entitled “art-of-living training: developing an intervention for students to increase art-of-living”. art-of- living is described as a mindful and self-determined way of dealing with one’s self and way of life. since art-of-living is based on strategies and attitudes which can be learned, it is possible to influence art-of-living by interventions. lang and schmitz developed a training method for primary school students (8-11) to improve art-of-living in them. a pre- and post-comparison showed improvement of the overall art-of-living as well as single components and quality of life in the case group, compared to the control group. successful training enhanced art-of-living; but, there are still some limitations. the current letter aimed at translating the described limitations into specific implications to develop a new training for primary school students.