Category Archives: emotional intelligence

Pre-school Neuroscience Summit

August 28, 2020amygdala, anxiety, behaviour kids, challenges, child development, emotional intelligence, grounding, mindfulness in schools, neuroscience, parenting, pre-school, resilience, resources, stresshow brain works, meditation and brain kids, mindfulness preschool, neuroscience, pre-schoolorraine

How does the young brain work?

I’m delighted to let you know that I’ll be speaking at the pre-school neuroscience online summit

My talk is aired on Friday 4th September 2020 and is free until the 5th September 2020.

The founder of these summits (Helen Maffini) is a passionate, lovely and professional advocate for bringing in powerful speakers to help us educate, learn and share good practice when it comes to pre-school childrens’ needs.

I hope you can join us!

Curious about teaching meditation?

Free meditations to download for kids or teens (including SEN)

Mindful Parenting – learn how to bring resillience, strength an calm into your parenting world.

Professional Training – to become a certified Kids Meditation Teacher

Teach Children Meditation Books – learn more about the

Mindfulness to help kids and teens with big emotions

February 26, 2020anger, anxiety, Blog, calm kids, challenges, child development, emotional intelligence, emotional literacy, emotions, grief, loneliness, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, mindfulness in schools, stresschildren, emotional feelings kids, emotional literacy, kids, meditation, meditation emotions teens, mindflness emotions kids, mindfulness, teenslorraine

A useful (mindful) tool to help kids and teens with difficult emotions

Use this link to download your copy of the Wheel of Emotions mentioned in the video.

If you want to become a kids/teens meditation teacher

Professional Training – to become a certified Kids Meditation Teacher

Teach Children Meditation Books – learn more about the benefits of meditation for kids including those with SEN/Autism/Anxiety/ADHD

School holidays – 2 ‘mindful’ books for kids/teens

June 20, 2019anger, anxiety, behaviour kids, breath, bullying, challenges, compassion, creativity, educating, emotional intelligence, emotions, getting started, gratitude, holidays, loneliness, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, parenting, resources, teensmindful books kids, mindful books teenslorraine

I’ve just finished reading…

…A book called ‘Eva and the Universe‘ by D. M Green.

It’s the 2nd (the previous one is ‘Jim and the Universe‘) and they are a perfect read to help introduce mindful awareness in a fictional way for kids who have big changes/struggles.

Eva is about a girl (I’m guessing 10) who always gets into trouble at school and then has a big life change where her father dies.

Jim is about a 12 year old boy starting high school and how he meets someone who helps him (mindfully) cope with the pressures.

Both books really touch on the importance of gratitude, energy and how children can bring self awareness to their lives more mindfully to achieve their potential and have more self compassion and self esteem.

I simply loved them and know (having read them to kids we have in our care) how they really like them too.

I hope you enjoy them!

(P.S. I’ve just posted ‘5 mindful tips for the summer holidays’ on our FB page and group)

Getting started…

Take the Foundation course – to teach your kids and teens mindful meditation

Professional Training – to become a certified Kids Meditation Teacher

Teach Children Meditation Books – learn more about the benefits of meditation for kids including those with SEN/Autism/Anxiety/ADHD

Free Meditation downloads for children/teens/autism – created by the international trainer, expert and founder of Connected Kids programme.

Star Meditation for kids of all ages – free

May 1, 2019anxiety, Autism, behaviour kids, bullying, calm kids, challenges, change the world, compassion, creativity, emotional intelligence, emotions, getting started, loneliness, meditation, mindfulness, mindfulness in schools, parenting, planting the seeds, pre-school, sleep, special needs, stress, toddlers, world peaceanxiety kids, bullying kids, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, star meditation kids, stress kidslorraine

I was meditating one day and I was inspired by this star meditation idea to help kids relax, reduce anxiety and feel a stronger, peaceful connection with the world.

It may be ideal for bed time or to help kids simply relax. It may help with bullying too.

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15 seconds to change schools with meditation and mindfulness

March 16, 2017ADHD, anger, anxiety, behaviour kids, Blog, calm kids, challenges, child development, educating, emotional intelligence, emotions, gratitude, heart-centre, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, mindfulness in schools, rick hanson, schools, self regulation, stress, teens, toddlers, world peacechildren, education, kids, meditation, mindfulness, mindfulness in schools, rick hansonlorraine

One of my friends is an experienced mindfulness teacher.

She sent me her weekly newsletter and within that there is mention of Dr Rick Hanson – the psychologist – with a link to one of his excellent presentations.

It was so good I thought I would include it in my regular blog (see below).

But it got me thinking.

Dr Hanson talks about the importance of him learning meditation skills, especially to help him recover from the difficult times he had growing up – you know the regular growing pains most of us go through and the feeling of not fitting in or being quite good enough.

He talks about how mindfulness has helped fill the ‘hole in his heart’ that these experiences created. Continue reading →