Credit: 1 CEU

Registration ends one week prior to the start of the session.

Location: Mind Body Align, LLC. – 20 North Mulberry Street, Mansfield, Ohio 44902

Our expert teacher-facilitated workshop develops the basics of personal mindfulness practice, mindful teaching, and how to teach mindfulness to others.

In this two day workshop, teachers will earn a CEU credit while learning the definition and background of mindfulness practice for children along with the basics of mindful meditation through a series of videos, readings, reflections, and guided mindfulness practices. This workshop also covers current scientific research on mindfulness and the brain, emotion regulation, and compassion. Teachers will learn the benefits seen in children, a summary of research and neuroscience, a demonstration of lessons done with children, and a description of what our evidence-based in-school program looks like in the classroom.

What you will learn:

• the basics of a personal mindfulness practice
• mindful teaching techniques
• using mindfulness in the classroom
• benefits seen in children
• a summary of research and neuroscience
• a demonstration of lessons done with children
• a description of our evidence-based in-school program

Questions: email julie@mindbodyalign.com or call 419-961-8095

Note: You will register only for the first day of the workshop. This action will automatically register you for the second day.

Choose the pricing based upon whether you are paying with a credit card at the time of registration or you are requesting that your school district pays via purchase order. Be aware if the purchase order option is chosen it will produce a receipt for $0.00 since no payment is being received at registration. Please advise us if you need further invoicing reflecting the price of the workshop to submit to your school district. It is the registrant’s responsibility to request the school district to pay for the workshop.

You will receive an email prior to the start of your workshop to advise you of all of the details including what to expect, what to bring, and how to dress. If you have any questions, please email or call.

Benefits of Mindfulness in Education

Scholarly research finds that mindfulness practice decreases stress and anxiety, increases attention, improves interpersonal relationships, strengthens compassion, and delivers a host of other benefits.

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  • Attention – Numerous studies show improved attention, including better performance on objective tasks that measure attention. Mindfulness practice teaches students how to pay attention in a particular way, and on purpose.
• • Emotion Regulation – Mindfulness is associated with emotion regulation across a number of studies. Mindfulness creates changes in the brain that correspond to less reactivity, and better ability to engage in tasks even when emotions are activated.
• • Compassion – People randomly assigned to mindfulness training are more likely to help someone in need and have greater self-compassion.
• • Calming – Studies find that mindfulness reduces feelings of stress and improves anxiety and distress when placed in a stressful social situation.