Mindful Social and Emotional Learning Solutions

Participants will be able to …

• Share with others what mindfulness is and its benefits

• Understand how mindfulness relates to adult wellness and social and emotional learning in the classroom

• See their personal wellness goals and make a plan to progress on them

Day 1 Wellness and Mindfulness Defined

• Practice an environmental scan

• Define wellness and source daily wellness practices from the group 

• Create some goals to improve your wellness in the months ahead

• Learn what mindfulness is and is not, it’s benefits, and what it looks like in caretaking relationships

• In an experiential activity, make connections between the basics of mindfulness and the Center for Academic and Social and Emotional Learning’s basic five competencies.

• Learn about the zones of experience and the stress response and how they can help teachers to be trauma informed meditation guides and students increase self-awareness and self-regulation when meditating

• Meditation practice using an anchor

Day 2 Reducing Stress and Creating a Wellness Paln

• Practice a group movement activity for settling the nervous system

• Group activity and discussion about the location of uncomfortable feelings in the body

• Walking meditation practice

• Draw ways to reduce stress in life

• Ways mindfulness contributes to stress reduction

• Make a plan to achieve your wellness goals in the months ahead