A one day workshop
How to use mindfulness as a tool to help manage students with specific issues in schools. Filled with strategies to implement in the classroom aimed at improving concentration, self-regulation, emotion management, and focus. Many of these strategies can be utilised with the general class population. A hands on, interactive course.
This PD teams perfectly with the PD 'Calm Kids - Teach Mindfulness to Students P-12', providing a logical flow on and progression from this PD. Both courses however, function robustly as stand alone PD's.
​Content:
  • ​Choosing the best mindfulness tool and strategy for a student with special needs
  • Issues to address before implementing a program for children with specific needs – defining the purpose of your program
  • Linking the relevance of mindfulness practice to a child’s life particularly important for late primary and teens
  • How to evaluate the efficacy of your program
  • Mindfulness strategies to strengthen ability to self-calm & self-regulate; improve concentration
  • Strategies to help manage Autism & Asperger’s students in your class
  • Loving Kindness mindfulness & its benefits
  • Mindfulness strategies to manage anxiety
  • Sound Mindfulness & Music
  • Games & activities for all ages to incorporate into your mindfulness program
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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