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Introducing Mindfulness, Meditation, and Calm Corners into Community Schools
Schools are witnessing the benefits of bringing mindfulness practices into education as a strategy for promoting social and emotional learning among students. Check out these easy ways to integrate mindfulness routines for classrooms.
Let Me Think About That
An exercise to improve executive function
It鈥檚 helpful for children to have a strategy to think about an activity or action before they do it. Building 鈥渢ime to reflect鈥 as well as 鈥渋ntent to act鈥 into the thinking process is empowering. This worksheet provides an opportunity for the child to explore the parts of a task, the plan of action to complete the task and the steps to revise their approach in the future.
Yoga and Mindfulness Tools for Children: Grounding and Becoming Present
Get two yoga and mindfulness practices to share with the children in your life. Each exercise comes with matching聽coloring pages and worksheets聽to further enhance the experience and deepen reflection, and you can download these supporting materials for free. Don鈥檛 forget to try these out yourself as well, as we all could use some orienting and grounding no matter what our age!聽
Breath of Joy
A Yoga Practice for Children with ADHD
Sometimes children with ADHD just can't stop moving...Here's a quick and enjoyable strategy to help restore attention and focus.
Inside/Outside Box
A powerful art-based play therapy technique
The Inside/Outside Box is a wonderful tool that elicits powerful emotions and helps tweens and teens begin to see their whole self, creating a launching pad for blossoming self-esteem and self-worth.
How To: Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Self-Regulation with Children & Adolescents
Progressive Muscle Relaxation Worksheet Included
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) is a great technique to use with children struggling with self-regulation because it allows for personalization of the scripted passages we use to guide the exercise. Read more to download your FREE PMR Worksheet...
Video: Emotional Responsiveness with Dr. Tina Payne Bryson
When you nurture your child's emotional world, you help build the connective fibers that make the reactive centers of their brains more readily and easily calmed down. Over time, these repeated emotional responsive interactions change your child's brain in a way that allows them to have better behavior and better emotional regulation. Learn more from Dr. Tina Payne Bryson...
Can鈥檛 vs. Wont: The No-Drama Strategy to Help You Respond to Your Child鈥檚 Needs
Free Worksheet: Distinguishing Can鈥檛 From Won鈥檛
Making the distinction between can鈥檛 and won鈥檛 will help you respond to your child鈥檚 needs, and support him in moments when he is having difficulty managing his emotions and behaviors. Instead of reacting to disobedience, you can respond to your child in a way that builds connection and reduces the unwanted behavior.
Positive Power: A strategy for behavioral challenges in children
Getting a child to follow directions can be difficult. But getting a child with oppositional, defiant or disruptive behavior to follow directions is a full time job. If you work with children that have challenging behaviors, try this easy-to-use Positive Power strategy presented by 小蝌蚪视频 speaker Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, MA, LPA.
Ha Kriya: A breathwork exercise
The leading voice in the children's yoga and mindfulness community, Jennifer Cohen Harper, MA, E-RCYT, presents her favorite way to empower the children she works with. This segment will show you how to prepare a child for challenging tasks using our most powerful tool: breath.