Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/30/2014
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Online
Categories
This 10 session online training is designed to support teachers and health care professionals interested in offering mindfulness to children and adolescents. The sessions will involve viewing video of a 4th grade Still Quiet Place course (via the web at a personally convenient time), engaging in home practice and partner practice, and participating in a 2 hour web based group discussion. Each course participant will receive a copy of A Still Quiet Place: A Mindfulness Program for Teaching Children and Adolescents to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions, and access to recorded, age-adapted, audio practices.
During the training we will:
- discuss skillful adaptations for teaching mindfulness to children and adolescents
- emphasize language and practices which are inviting and accessible to youth
- observe and discuss a 10-session course for 4th graders from beginning to end
- discuss variations in curriculum for younger and older children
- engage in an in-depth exploration of ways to facilitate children’s and adolescents’ embodied experience of mindfulness
- guide practices for partners and the group as a whole
- review the current research regarding teaching mindfulness to children and adolescents
- inquire together about personal readiness to offer mindfulness to children and adolescents
Course times: The next course will begin September 30th 4:00- 5:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time
For those for whom the above dates and times don’t work, you may still participate in the course. The webinar will be recorded for you to replay at your convenience, and you will be able to email questions and comments in advance of class for discussion and response during the webinar.
Course Fee: $600; a limited number of partial scholarships are available.
Please email dramy@stillquietplace.com for an application. Applications are due on or before September 16th, 2014.