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A Grand Success for New EnglandNEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE On Children’s Health and Education This past week teachers, principles, and guidance counselors across New England heard presentations on how the TM program can improve academic achievement, learning ability, and prevent and treat stress, anxiety and depression in their schools. From Connecticut to Maine, conferences in many of New England’s metropolitan areas inspired a wave of excitement and interest in the vision of possibilities for children when schools adopt and promote the TM program. Here are photos and comments from the many events across the region.
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50-60 Fairfield County, CT educators and administrators at Fairfield University.
Short but impressive presentations by the conference speakers generated substantial interest in Maharishi’s Consciousness-Based® approach to education.
20-25 VIPs at a private luncheon.
After the VIP luncheon, many wealthy community leaders became interested in the TM Program for Hartford schools.
Over 170 educators attended the conference in Avon, CT. Fifteen schools would like to implement our programs. A university professor who trains guidance counselors felt the TM technique was the tool that he’d been looking for to help students handle stress. The president of the Hartford Teacher’s Union expressed an interest in offering the TM program to its members.
More than 100 educators gathered at the Biltmore Hotel in Providence, RI. The Head of Guidance from a local school said everyone from his school wanted to learn the TM program. The Providence Journal, New England’s second largest newspaper, published an article about the conference.
Maharishi Vedic School students related their experiences with the TM program and learning. The vice principal of a Providence middle school said “I know that the children (in my school) would get so much out of the experience.” 
Over 100 educators at the Harvard Club listen to Dr. Ashley Deans.
Members of the tour at the Harvard Club, Boston. The principal of a public high school, who was already considering creating a pilot meditation program for ninth-graders, said, “We all talk about how we want to create an environment conducive to learning. This sounds like this is it.”
Dr. Alarik Arenander speaks to over 40 educators at the Essex Hotel in Burlington, VT. 
Maharishi School student Amelia Freeberg told the educators, “If our generation can have this experience of Transcendental Meditation, and we can grow up to become intelligent, stable, balanced, and peaceful, we won’t just be the leaders of the most powerful country in the world—we’ll be the leaders of the most peaceful country in the world.”
110 New Hampshire educators attended the conference at the Wayfarer Convention Center near Manchester. One educator commented, ”I now understand the value of the TM program in education — and I want to learn myself.” 
Dr. Ashley Deans demonstrates brain wave coherence to 70 Maine educators at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Portland, ME.