Mindfulness and Wellbeing programmes for primary and secondary schools and Higher Education from Coach Lindsay:
- One-off mindfulness workshops.
- A full day of an introduction to mindfulness.
- A 6 Week primary, secondary or college course “Planting Seeds of Mindfulness and Wellbeing” with around 6 students.
- A set of mindfulness sessions, perhaps over the course of a term or a number of weeks, delivered to a class.
- Weekly mindfulness sessions, rotated around different classes within a school.
- Small group intervention, including children and young people with particular anxieties and needs.
- An introductory session for teachers and support staff on mindfulness and its benefits.
- Advice on how to create a mindful enviroment in school/college
Our children’s well-being matters and must be nurtured from a multi-pronged approach by which we care about what they eat, what they are being exposed to, what they are learning and their physical and emotional well-being.
Research has found improvements in anxiety, cognitive functioning and self regulation among children trained in mindfulness, suggesting that the corresponding parts of the brain may be changing as well.
Coach Lindsay offers a safe space for children and young adults to explore their emotions. In the classroom, you definitely see more children worrying about things. These stressful thoughts can snowball and therefore affect the way the child acts in the classroom and interacts with their peers. Children encounter anxiety and worry and are not sure what the feelings are, how to deal with them and what to do with the feeling once its consumed them. They get tummy aches, headaches, begin to feel uncomfortable and sometimes angry. They have no tools for self regulation and therefore can react to situations in a very volatile and disruptive manner.
Training kids to practise self-love, self-care and self regulation from an early age can only be beneficial for their futures. It’s about making those little changes now so that we see less anxiety in adults later on. We all carry wounds in us that we received as children and to have skills shown to us as children to prevent these scars from forming can only be positive.
Prevention is something that is key to my work with children at primary and secondary school age and up into higher education. If we teach kids how to deal with their thoughts and emotions, we’re going to see some pretty healthy young adults.
Planting Seeds of Mindfulness and Wellbeing sessions are specifically written to be used in a school or college setting and can result in:
- An understanding of their emotions
- Tools for how to deal with feelings and emotions
- A knowledge of breathing techniques
- A practice of meditation
- A peaceful energy
- A range of self regulation techniques
- How to be present in the moment
- To be comfortable being still and its benefits
- An understanding of their thoughts
- Increased attention for the classroom
- Tools to take home and use in their everyday lives
- Increased self awareness
- Skillful ways of responding to difficult emotions
- Being empathic and more understanding of others
- Experience decreased stress levels
- Increased calmness
- Improved impulse control
- Reduced remuneration
- Improved concentration
- Detachment from negative thought patterns
- Increased resilience
What is Mindfulness and what does it mean in the classroom.
I am passionate that mindfulness or ‘paying attention’ or simply ‘noticing’ should be on the national curriculum. It should be a staple in everyone’s life. I believe it should be something everyone does everyday with as much urgency and significance as brushing your teeth or eating. As little as 15 minutes per day produces incredible physical results. It is the ability to be able to recognise thoughts as ‘just thoughts’, and therefore ‘snap out of it’ quicker.
I see many teachers and learning support workers trying to calm down a distressed child either in the classroom setting or in the corridor. mindfulness shows children that they already have the tools to be able to calm themselves down and self regulate their own emotional distress. Imagine that, as a teacher, to not have to spend time out with a child to calm them down enough to begin learning again because that child has already accessed their tools to help themselves. They have the knowledge and skills to bring themselves back into the present moment. This can take as little as 90 seconds to achieve.
Contact me on my website, through email, phone or on my social media platforms to enquire how Coach Lindsay can bring Planting Seeds of Mindfulness and Wellbeing into your school or college.