Category Archives: resilience

Forest of Candy Meditations for kids

March 18, 2021anxiety, breath, calm kids, emotional intelligence, gratitude, meditation, mindfulness, mindfulness in schools, panic attacks, resilience, spanish, stressconnected kids teacher for teens, mindfulness for kids Barcelona, mindfulness for kids Spain, spanish meditation teacher for kidslorraine

Spanish Meditation teacher, from Scotland who teaches meditation

Meet one of our Connected Kids Trainers, Alice Chinn, from Scotland but who speaks fluent Spanish sharing tips about teaching meditation to kids and teens, and how she helps adults do this too.

For more info on our training programme available in Spanish and English Connected Kids programme.

stressed children returning to school after lockdown – parent tips

March 5, 2021anxiety, behaviour kids, challenges, covid-19, emotions, mental health, neurodiverse, panic attachs, resilience, return to school, schools, self regulation, SEN, sensory issues, sensory schools, special needs, transitionsneurodiverse, return to school anxiety, return to school health problems kids, return to school lockdown anxietylorraine

Anxious kids returning to school

Some fantastic resources for you to use if you have children who are anxious about returning to school. Please share.

Anxious Kids returning to school

Kids who are neurodiverse problems returning to school

Kids with long term health problems returning to school

For more info on our training programme about reducing kid’s anxiety and stress with meditation- Connected Kids programme.

Mindful Tips for Trauma Informed Parenting

September 2, 2020adoption, amygdala, anger, anxiety, attachment parenting, behaviour kids, breath, challenges, fostering, grounding, mindfulness, parenting, resilience, traumaadoption, fostering, mindfulness, parenting, traumalorraine

Lorraine E Murray, founder of Connected Kids hosts an Interview with Suzanne Scott, founder of the charity Trauma Informed Parenting Scotland

What is trauma informed parenting?
What difference does it make to a young person if their parent is trauma informed
What difference does it make to the parent if they can be trauma informed
What are your top 3 tips for people to practice to be a trauma informed parent
Can you give us a practical (real life) example of a situation using TIP skills?
Advice on how long a traumatic birth can impact a child and where to source advice to help their kids if they have been through a traumatic birth.

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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

New online talk – this month

November 8, 2018ADHD, anxiety, Autism, behaviour kids, calm kids, child development, getting started, heart-centre, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, resilience, self regulation, special needs, teens, toddlersadhd, autism, child mental health, meditation, mindfulnesslorraine

The 3 things your child needs for mental health – online talk

We’ve just announced our next online talk

It’s about using meditation and mindfulness to support the 3 things your child needs for mental health development.

There are limited places – the talk is live and available as a recording too.

Useful links…

Connected Kids foundation course – online or in-class) (This is the gateway to our professional level)
Books – Calm Kids (beginners) or Connected Kids (working with special needs/anxiety).
Free Meditation downloads for children/teens/autism – created by the international trainer, expert and founder of Connected Kids programme.