This course will not only give you the skills to deliver mindfulness to children in the classroom, it will also help you develop a personal practice for the benefit of your own well-being. Get instant access to the full course – over 100 videos for one year!
We’re Better Together
Would you like to be a part of a community dedicated to improving the lives of children by delivering mindfulness in the classroom? Could you benefit from the emotional support of your peers? I created Now Children to do just that. I believe that teachers can benefit deeply from cultivating a mindfulness practice in their own lives, and through this foundation they can then extended the wonderful benefits of mindfulness to the children in their classrooms.
~ Kate Munding
An Overview of the Training Modules
Teaching Mindfulness to Children
Introduction & Teaching Mindfully
This is your introduction to what it means to teach mindfulness to children. Learn how to define what mindfulness is and is not, its benefits in education, and how mindfulness affects the developing brain. You’ll learn about the importance of teaching from presence and how to integrate your own mindfulness practice into your teaching. (13 Videos)
The Fundamentals of Mindfulness
Learn how to introduce mindfulness to younger and older children as well as the quintessential lessons to any mindfulness program. Each lesson is broken down into three parts, an introduction, a demonstration, and a reflection. (23 Videos)
Honing Attention and Regulation Skills
This module builds off of the techniques offered in Module 2, emphasizing building the student’s ability to strengthen and sustain their attention. This set of units also focuses on ways students can use mindfulness to regulate their nervous systems, sensory input, and emotions. (24 Videos)
Cultivating Empathy and Well-being
This module combines mindfulness practice and heart practice. Its purpose is to offer a set of lessons to address the need for compassion, co-operation, inclusivity, and respectful regard for others in the classroom. These lessons hold the perspective that having empathy for others in-turn cultivates personal well-being and happiness, making these practices holistic instead of punitive responses to difficult or challenging classroom relationships. (18 Videos)
Social-Emotional Learning Through Mindfulness
This module unites the theory of SEL and mindfulness practice by using mindful awareness to understand the intrapersonal processes (awareness of one’s own emotions, thoughts, and ideas) and interpersonal processes (empathic relating to others). This set of lessons advances a mindfulness program, bringing depth and life long skills to any student. (21 Videos)
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Join Our Community Events
In addition to receiving over 100 training videos in this course, participants are also invited to join regularly scheduled “live” programs. These events are generally broadcast on Zoom and the video recordings are added to the resources section of the course.
Who is this training for?
We support the teachers and education professionals who work with children, including administrators, educational support professionals, and mindfulness leaders interested in integrating mindfulness into educational settings. Together, we are building a community responsible for preparing children to enter a world filled with monumental challenges skillfully. We know that mindfulness is a fundamental support tool for everyone involved in the K-12 classroom setting.
Teachers
Classroom teachers often hold the educational and emotional needs of individual students and the class as a whole. They are unique in integrating direct daily mindfulness teachings into their existing curriculum, offering continuity and sustainability to a mindfulness program. Our training supports teachers in integrating mindfulness into their own teaching style and current curriculums. Lessons are designed to teach an entire class but are easily adaptable to individual students’ needs.
Mindfulness Instructors
People who have already been trained to professionally teach mindfulness may not have the training or experience to teach to children. This will prepare you to bring mindfulness programs to classrooms or other children’s programs by providing you with a complete curriculum, how to teach and adapt to different ages, and classroom management skills.
Educational Support Professionals
Creative arts teachers (music, art, theater, language, etc.), learning specialists, school therapists, and social workers often work in various conditions. You might go to the students and teach in their classroom, or they may come to you. You might work a lot one-to-one or in small groups. This training offers enough guidance and support to adapt the mindfulness curriculum to your needs and make the content relevant to your student’s learning goals.
Administrators
Principals, Heads of School, and other administrative support staff are not only working hard to support a healthy learning environment school-wide for students but a collegial work environment for staff, teachers, and parents. Our training supports administrators to find more balance in their work, better support the wellbeing of their teachers, and gain skills to work with students in groups or one-to-one.
Interested in One-on-One Mentoring?
Would you like some additional support in your efforts to cultivate mindfulness in the classroom. Whether to support your own mindfulness or hone skills learned in our educator training programs, one-on-one mentoring support can be very helpful to deepen your understanding and practice with mindfulness for educational settings. Reach out to ask us about this opportunity today.
Customized Learning Opportunities
Ask us about our customized learning opportunities. We offer the following learning formats:
- Group training programs for your school or organization
- Personalized mentored cohorts for groups of 10 or more people
- 3-day training workshops held in-person where those who attend get access to our online course material for one year
- One-on-one mentoring with trained mindfulness leaders
- Are you interested in a customized option? Inquire today!
Customized Learning Opportunities
Ask us about our customized learning opportunities. We offer the following learning formats:
- Group training programs for your school or organization
- Personalized mentored cohorts for groups of 10 or more people
- 3-day training workshops held in-person where those who attend get access to our online course material for one year
- One-on-one mentoring with trained mindfulness leaders
- Are you interested in a customized option? Inquire today!
Have you already completed a similar course?
Join the Alumni Circle
Cultivating a community of competent leaders in the field of mindfulness education is at the heart of what we do, and the Now Children Alumni is at the center of that community. Our alumni are professionals who have completed our Mindfulness for Education training program (or a comparable program) and continue to engage as the Now Children community members. We recognize their diverse experience teaching mindfulness in the classroom and are honored that they choose to contribute back to the greater Now Children community.
Join Today and Get Full Access for a Year
Are you ready to join a community dedicated to the well-being of children everywhere? This course will not only give you the skills to deliver mindfulness to children in the classroom, it will also help you develop a personal practice for the benefit of your own well-being. When you sign up today, you get:
- Instant access to over 100 videos
- Virtual, group meetups with Kate
- Access to regularly added new content
- Instant community with like-minded professionals
- Opportunities to attend events and workshops
- A course designed to be completed in 6 months with 6 months of additional access!
