Calm Kids - Teach Mindfulness to Students P-12
A one day workshop
Mindfulness is a state of calm reached by learning how to manage your awareness of the present moment while accepting your current state of emotions and bodily sensations. Stress management, clarity of thought, better health – these are some of the benefits research has found in the practice of mindfulness. This program will introduce you to the fundamentals of mindfulness for adults and children and then build on this understanding to focus on the strategies required to teach them. Techniques for children with ADHD will also be discussed.   P-12.
​Content:
1. Introduction to mindfulness
  • The purpose of mindfulness
  • The relationship between mind and body
  • Supporting research and studies
  • The benefits for adults & children
  • Strategies to introduce mindfulness to your class​
2. Methodology for teaching children
  • Creating the Mindfulness environment
  • Concepts useful to integrate into the session
  • Useful resources
  • Strategies for ADHD students
  • Practise of a variety of techniques with opportunity for discussion
​​3. Further techniques & integration into the school
  • Managing different age groups
  • Optimum timing and use of mindfulness during the school day​
About the Presenter Kate Cooper
With a background of over 25 years of experience as a psychologist Kate specialises in training that helps people tackle the complex challenges to their physical and psychological health. She has worked as a mediator, counsellor, trauma manager, facilitator and public speaker. Her work has been across Education, corporate and not for profit sectors such as beyondblue.
Workshops in areas such as mindfulness, anxiety, depression, sleeping better, stress management, neuroscience and resilience have been engaging and filled with ideas participants can immediately apply to their work and to their own life.
​Kate has presented mindfulness to a diverse range of organisations from the Victorian Supreme Court to the Glen Eira Council.
​As a professional communicator, she is passionate about maximising benefits to participants and ensuring they experience an optimum learning environment in all of her professional development workshops.
Kate is a member of the Victorian Psychologists Registration Board and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society.
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Just a quick note to let you know how much I gained from yesterday. If I go to a PD and come away with one new thing to enhance either myself or my teaching practices, I think that I have done well. Yesterday exceeded my expectations by miles. I have got so many things that I can use with my kids - both my own and the students that I teach - that I really don't know where to start. What I do know, is that the road that I have been heading down, has been affirmed by your PD.
Thank you so much.
Regards,
Jenny Slusher, Emerson School