About our Program for Schools
Schools are interested in Mindfulness and passionate about Student Wellbeing and so are we!
At Aussie Meditation we help schools and teachers understand how to get the results from a Mindfulness Curriculum that research has shown are available – results like lower stress levels, improved academic results and enhanced Social and Emotional Learning.
PROGRAM OPTIONS
Mindfulness Skills in support of Social and Emotional Learning
At Aussie Meditation we use the Unified Mindfulness System. Its clarity and precision makes it perfect for supporting Social and Emotional Learning by integrating fundamental mindfulness principles into personal interactions. This is an in-depth but extremely practical approach that gives teachers:
- An understanding of the core attentional skills of Mindfulness
- An understanding of the concept of embodying the core attentional skills of Mindfulness as the foundation for a successful Social and Emotional Learning Program.
- A clear and practical approach to embodying Mindfulness skills which does not require the teacher (or the students) to meditate
- Age appropriate interactive mindfulness activities
- A student-centred approach to cultivating caring and understanding through Mindfulness
- Continued Growth – taking Mindful awareness into more of daily life. Learn how that can happen for both you and your students simultaneously without extra practice outside of your work day
Enhance your Mindfulness Curriculum
Time for a spruce up?
Let’s chat! We can help you develop and/or enhance a Mindfulness program.
We can help refine and build upon what you’ve got with the unique insights of the Unified System.
Here’s a look at what this might include:
- Understanding the Core Attentional Skills of Mindfulness
- Understanding focus range options
- Creating exercises for student engagement with Mindfulness
- Understanding the benefits of Mindfulness
- A wide range of new activities to expand upon your current Mindfulness Curriculum
- A practice for students to rest and recharge during their busy days
- A practice for nurturing positivity
- A practice to explore emotion
- Guiding a short Meditation (30 seconds to 2 minutes) in class to transition between activities, bring focus to an activity, explore a sense and more
- Learning a technique and strategies for managing your own stress and the challenges that all teachers face
Mindfulness Courses
Mindfulness Courses and/or workshops for staff or senior students. Aussie Meditation offers multiple options for schools interested in group mindfulness classes in support of wellbeing for staff and senior students.
These can be of varied length from a 3 Hour Workshop to an 4 or 8 Week Course.
Programs such as these are much more than just a series of Guided Meditations. They are packed full of instruction. Participants leave with an industrial strength Mindfulness practice having learnt techniques, technique options, strategies, approaches to application in daily life and much more. Each class includes a guided practice for practical experience.
Courses can be run either Live Online or In-Person at times to suit.
Attention-Seekers Program
In 2024 we will introduce our ‘Attention Seekers’ Program for Senior Students.
This program introduces students to the Attention Skills of Mindfulness in order to support them in their final years of Secondary School.
We focus on using Mindfulness skills to:
- Develop their ability to concentrate
- Better manage distractions
- Effectively manage Stress and Anxiety
- Navigate the emotional challenges of their Senior School year/s
- Develop emotional regulation skills
- Establish positive habits
- Nurture Positivity
- Be able to access Rest and to Recharge even when they are busy
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FAQs
At Aussie Meditation you’ll learn the skills of Mindfulness. These skills contribute to wellbeing across 5 broad areas. The first of these areas is reducing suffering which includes working with difficult experiences like stress and overwhelm. We’ll show you not only the skills of Mindfulness but also specific strategies to deal with stress in real time. Being able to effectively manage stress across the course of your day not only reduces the exhaustion you feel but it also helps our ability to get to (and stay) asleep at night.
That’s a big question.
Some of the ways you could do that are outlined a little on this page.
Perhaps a good place to start is to with how Mindfulness could help your own wellbeing. The impacts of teacher wellbeing on student learning and wellbeing has been the subject of some very interesting research. Given all the challenges that teachers face you could all do with as much support as possible!
Being able to understand the practice and benefits of Mindfulness yourself will help when it comes to bringing a program to the classroom. Understanding the skills involved will help you improve the quality of any Mindfulness Curriculum you already use. It will also help you to understand how to develop and expand what you offer to effectively meet the needs and interests of the students in that moment.
We do offer Mindfulness activities that you can do with students that do not require you to have any Mindfulness Meditation experience. These activities are interactive and encourage Social and Emotional Learning and they also include the skills of Mindfulness. These activities don’t look like Meditation but nonetheless they do involve the attention skills that underpin Mindfulness.
If you are working with senior students who are dealing with the challenges of long hours of sustained concentration and the stresses of exams and assignments you can offer them Mindfulness practices to work effectively with stress, access rest on the go and also to build the skill of concentration.
Another big question.
The 5 areas of happiness and wellbeing that Mindfulness supports include elevating the fulfillment we feel from life. Practices which specifically focus on nurturing positivity and spontaneity are a wonderful way to re-energise these qualities in our lives. The grind of day to day work and the attitudes we encounter and unconsciously adopt can just become how we walk around in the world. With Mindfulness you’ll learn to see what these outside influences are. You can consciously choose to foster a you that embodies warmth, calm, ease and a vibrancy that lifts not only you but those around you as well.