From age three to twelve, children experience incredible changes and growth, such changes are not exclusively limited to Height and size but, even more relevantly, in their cognitive abilities and physiology. A long-lasting process of autonomy starts and pupils rely less and less on their parents throughout these years. This is the time when social skills, emotional skills and behavior have the chance to evolve and differentiate. Later on, in their Teen years, students start approaching society, friends become new groups of reference outside of the family and a process to develop personal identity begins. Due to the impact of Social-media, the ever growing need of support throughout developing processes and our constantly changing society, students have to acquire new sets of skills and knowledge to be more aware of themselves and the surrounding world. Schools are in charge of  a very important educational role, to prepare the growing pupil on confronting the world. To do that, the young mind needs support in knowledge such as Maths, History, Language and Sciences. But not only. It also needs tools to grow in a healthy way, the ability to identify and pursue wellbeing and develop emotional regulation competences. All of this in order to prompt the individual to being a well rounded successful and fulfilled young adult.

This course was designed to give teachers the much-needed tools to do just that. All by understanding the meaning of wellbeing, what mindfulness is, where to start to practice mindfulness with children and teens and how to design your mindfulness exercises.

At the end of the Course Teachers will:

• Know about how to introduce mindfulness practice within different individual’s developmental stages.

• Know about some of the most recent literature on Mindfulness practice in schools with children and teens.

• Learn how to deliver effective and tested Mindfulness practices like: Aware breathing, Body scan, Imaginary hugs, the little turtle (tale), Coloring mandalas, the quiet after the storm, walking meditation, aware listening and more!

• Learn how to design your own mindfulness practice for your students.

With what you learn in this course, you will be able to achieve in your pupils:

• The development of potential abilities like: Universalism, Gratitude, Appreciation for beauty and Courage.

• Understand their own body and how it reacts to different Mindfulness practices (like deep breathing.)

• To explore and observe with more awakened awareness.

• Train attention and improve task completion-oriented assignments.

• Learn how to manage basic emotions like Anger and Fear.

• Manage stressful moments and become more resilient to anxiety and depression.

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Target group

Any teacher at all levels of education working in a public or private school or educational institutions

Like all of our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant. 

Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non-formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, especially schools in the area. 

We always try to connect our learners to local teachers and students to cooperate in developing innovation and networking for future projects. If possible, inside the program, a morning is spent inside a local school, visiting, observing, and cooperating in the realization of one or more lessons. The proposed program is framed by JUMP, in a European dimension, with an international spirit, even at local level. According to the time of the year the training takes place and the weather, it is possible to change some sessions, excursions and meetings, in cooperation with our network of partners (including schools involved in European projects).