Using Mindfulness and Meditation with Kids

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Learn how to use meditation, mindfulness, and imagery (MMI) to help kids and teens access their inner wisdom. You’ll learn how to:

• Adapt mindfulness and other “adult” practices to various stages of cognitive and emotional development in kids
• Enhance your ability to help kids cope with uncomfortable emotions like anxiety, anger, sadness, grief, and fear
• Increase kids’ capacity to focus their attention and better achieve peak performance in school and other areas of life
• Involve parents in therapy and make sure they support their children’s use of mindfulness and imagery practices at home

OBJECTIVES

1. Learn how to adapt mindfulness techniques to work for young clients.

OUTLINE

• Child Therapy Approach
• Foundational Tools
• Balloon Breath Technique
• "Special Place" Technique

• Meditation