Video from the 10 week .b mindfulness in schools project cou

Adapted from the adult courses Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy specifically for young adults. This 10 week course has been evaluated positively by the University of Cambridge and Oxford Brookes.  (There are also 4 stand alone workshops available.)

It has been shown to help students:

• Feel calmer and more positive
• Helps them cope with stress & anxiety. 
• Improves concentration & focus
• Helps students get on better with others. 

The .B course uses striking visuals, videos, worksheets and interactive activities that keep it exciting and interesting without losing the integrity or expertise of classic mindfulness teaching.

The course is appropriate for any 11-18 (+) year olds within any setting that has a safeguarding structure i.e schools, colleges, clubs, youth groups etc. 

Each course can be tailored to meet your needs and can be taught during PSHE, after school, a youth club or in a hired venue.  Each student is provided with weekly worksheets that they can build into an invaluable resource and links to online resources to help them maintain their practice.

It is also possible for parents to fund this course in their own school and community and to pay privately for a group.  The course can also be run online with parents attending with their child.

Please contact me for more information about the .b course and how to bring it to your school, college or community group.  This wonderful course has a really positive impact on the mental health of young adults.

• To help students recognise the importance of breath in training their faculty of attention.  

• For students to gain an insight into the untrained mind’s fickle nature– it is like a puppy. 

• To allow the students to develop some simple tools for training their own attention.  

• To encourage key attitudes to attention-training: kindness, patience, repetition. To help  students to understand that we can choose what to do with our attention. 

• Understand stress: where it comes from, why it is necessary, how it works and its potentially  harmful effects. 

• Identify and draw their “stress signature” - where in the body do they feel stress? 

• Learn to work with stress in a different way. 

• Sleep has a really important role to play in how we feel and think. 

• Poor sleep can have a real impact on our day-to-day functioning and wellbeing. 

• Poor sleep often results from the mind’s natural tendency to worry. 

• Practices like Beditation help us to work with this by switching us from  ‘thinking’ mode to ‘sensing’ mode 

• Humans are social beings, and our brains are designed to help us identify the emotions and  experiences of others as well as our own. 

• These signals can sometimes be difficult read, and made all the more powerful through the  combination thoughts, feelings, actions and body sensations. 

• Learning to ‘.breathe’ can give us the space and time to see more clearly and respond more  skilfully in such situations