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  • Builds educator confidence and understanding in trauma informed strategies

    Capacity of educator to create interpersonal safety, enable students to self regulate

    Proactive strategies minimising likelihood of trauma response

    Adverse childhood experience

    Accessible, understand your own response better.

  • Understanding what is Trauma

    Understanding how Stress, Trauma and the brain are linked

    Trauma informed strategies for the classroom

    How to handle stress when children are triggered

    How to use mindfulness to obtain better mental health.

    Educator self-care and support because we care about educators’ health and well-being.

  • Mindfulness is the practice of focusing awareness by paying attention to the present moment with openness, curiosity and without judgement.

  • As a program to support readiness for learning across all curriculum areas.

    As an important component of a social and emotional learning curriculum

    It is an effective tool for settling and focusing students at the beginning of any classroom activity.

    Strengthens and develops important cognitive skills related to learning.

    Can facilitate the development of important social and emotional skills

    Supports the development of relationships and decision making

    Supports the development of self awareness, self management and social awareness.

  • It improves attention, and improved attention means students are more able to focus on learning. They are more capable of taking in new information without being distracted by internal reactions or preconceived perspectives.

    It improves working memory, cognitive flexibility, reasoning, planning, goal directed behaviours and self regulation. These skills are essential when it comes to learning new information.

    It reduces emotional reactivity, behavioural issues, anxiety and depression. This means students have fewer potential obstacles standing in a way of their learning.

  • Mindfulness is based on religion

    Mindfulness is just about being kind

    Mindfulness is just about relaxing

    Mindfulness is about clearing the mind and not thinking.

    Mindfulness suppresses emotions

    Mindfulness only focuses on positivity

  • Research has shown us that practising mindfulness strengthens areas of the brain that control ‘executive function’ such as the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and amygdala.

    For this reason, mindfulness leads to better attention, memory, regulation of emotions and self awareness. In turn, improvements in these areas can leads to reduce stress, anxiety and depression, and better academic skills, anxiety and depression, and better academic skills, social skills and self esteem.

  • We recommend one 30-45 minute mindfulness teaching session that includes educational material, class discussion and active learning about the concepts of mindfulness per week and 5-10 minute meditation practice sessions on 4-5 days per week.