Full Course Description
2-Day Experiential Workshop: Activity-Based Mindfulness for Kids:
Teach Attention, Emotional Balance & Compassion in Schools and Clinics
Program Information
Objectives
- Present an introduction to the theory and practice of mindful awareness in the classroom and the clinic.
- Teach practical, mindful tools that can be applied in your professional work with children, teens and families.
- Observe demonstrations of mindful games that impact attention, emotional balance and compassion in the classroom and the clinic.
- Explore age-appropriate, secular, mindful games and activities from the perspective of a child or teenager in small groups through role-play.
- Discern the connections between mindfulness, stress-reduction, attention, regulating emotion, regulating behavior, and learning.
- Determine ways to integrate mindfulness into existing programs and/or routines.
- Illustrate mindful awareness and its general applications in psychology and education.
- Present the Inner Kids evidence-based model and how it supports education and psychotherapy settings.
- Explore ways to integrate mindful life-skills into personal and professional life for self-care.
- Compile mindful strategies to ignore distractions & build flexible attention.
- Design mindful games and develop perspective talking.
- Incorporate mindful games to help strengthen the behavioral health of your clients.
Outline
INTRODUCTION:
- An Exploration of the Inner Kids Model and Activity-Based Mindfulness
- A fun, pragmatic approach to mindfulness and meditation using games to develop six essential life skills:
- Quieting
- Focusing
- Seeing
- Reframing
- Caring & Connecting
- Experience mindful games: lecture, demonstrations and dyads
DEMONSTRATIONS AND ROLE PLAY IN SMALL GROUPS
Quieting: Calming and Self-Regulation
- Explore mindful strategies to:
- Develop restraint
- Release nervous energy
- Calm and self-soothe
- Experience a mindful activity: A Cooling Out-Breath, Shake It Up, and Gratitude Walk
Focusing: Attention and Concentration
- Explore mindful strategies to develop:
- Concentration
- Help kids ignore distractions
- Build steady, flexible attention
- Experience mindful games/activities: Mindful Breathing, Counting Breaths, Tic-Toc, Slow and Silent Walking, and Visualizations
Seeing & Reframing: A Wise and Compassionate Worldview
- Explore mindful strategies to explore:
- Cause and effect
- Develop perspective taking
- Open-mindedness
- Appreciation
- Experience mindful games: Duck! Rabbit!, Pinky Pointing or Thumbs Game, Life is Good, and Three Good Things.
Caring & Connecting: Speaking and Acting with Wisdom and Compassion
- Explore mindful strategies to develop:
- Age-appropriate discernment
- Self-care
- Capacity to let go of old hurts and disappointments
- Offer a roadmap for speaking and acting in a way that’s helpful to self and others
- Experience mindful games: Is it Helpful?, The Three Gates, What Did I Hear?, Resting and Noticing, Stargazing, Pink Bubble
Copyright :
30/11/2017