Kids Meditation Programme prospectus

Foundation – (*1 day)

• understand how stress affects the mind, body and emotions
• explore the benefits of meditation – brain development, reducing stress and anxiety for all ages.
• learn how to create meditation scripts for any age/ability of child/teen
• confidence booster techniques when delivering meditations
• understand the difference between meditation and mindfulness
• develop your intuition to create meditations children will connect with.
• set up a meditation space suitable for children (from toddlers + to teens)
• understand how to adapt meditation for  kids of different ages

Professional – (*3 days)

Includes the foundation course plus…

• Explore a wide range of mindfulness and meditation techniques and apply these to accommodate different abilities/needs in children/teens.
• Learn how to set up a meditation programme for teaching children professionally
• Learn how to teach children meditation who have ADHD, on the Autistic spectrum or have additional support needs.
• Learn how to support the families of those with children with special needs
• Develop a ‘meditation toolkit’ that can structure bespoke sessions (mandalas, mudras, labyrinths, crystals/stones, colour, day-to-day objects)
• Learn how to work more intuitively with a compassionate practice
• tips for teaching kids/teens who don’t want to learn meditation!
• Understand the energy centres and the role they play when teaching meditation
• Learn about which mindful activities are safe to use with different needs.
• Understand how to help young people process strong reactions to meditation
• certified so you can teach professionally
• **NEW** – training on how to run online meditations sessions for kids or teens

*Due to COVID-19 we are only offering our training sessions via our online programme.  We will review this by the end of July 2020