The Mindful Child

Programme

Clinical studies on mindfulness and its many benefits are being conducted all the time and across the world. It’s potential for improving health and wellbeing is growing exponentially.

Here is a list of some of the benefits of Mindfulness for Children documented by in clinical research:

• Improves Sleep

• Strengthens Self-Control

• Lower's Anxiety and Stress

• Reduction in Depression

• Decrease in ADHD Behaviours

• Improves Focus

• Improved Academic Performance

• Increases Positive Moods

• Better Decision Making

• Improves Emotional Regulation Skills

• Increases Self-Esteem

• Improves Health and Body Image

• Improves Social Skills and Communication

Key Elements of The Mindful Child Programmes:

• A formal Mindfulness based 4/6-week programme for children
• Adaptable for working in informal groups or working 1:1
• A child friendly fusion of Mindfulness Now, MBSR and MBCT
• Personalised or group specific audio recordings
• Flexible enough to meet the needs of individual children and different age groups

Key Components to the programme:

• Learning and encouraging an awareness of our inner and outer worlds
• Incorporating the attitudes of mindfulness in our everyday lives
• Learning the ability to inhibit or control impulsive/ automatic
responses, and create skilled mindful responses
• Learning how to separate ourselves from our thoughts

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