Clear Kids Mindfulness Course for Youth

Clear Kids Mindfulness Course for Youth offers you and the young people in your life the opportunity to learn mindfulness together in a course designed for kids that’s helpful for adults, too. Courses can be customized for any age range.

What is mindfulness?

There are two meanings really. The first is that mindfulness is awareness, an inherent quality we all have or the alive awareness that is the basis of being. Along with this, mindfulness points to non-judgmental, kind and curious awareness. The second meaning of mindfulness points to techniques that help us recognize and utilize our awareness for various purposes such as emotional regulation, focus, addressing anxiety, achieving goals and enjoying life.

How is mindfulness helpful for youth?

When we get upset, we are often reactive – reacting to what we are experiencing. We don’t have much space (internal or external) to respond any differently. Our brains are doing the best they can from a survival perspective. We can learn to create space, though, through mindfulness techniques that help us train ourselves to stop, pause and focus – by choice. When we’re in the heat of the moment, there’s not a lot of room for choice, until we’ve established within ourselves that we actually can choose – even when we experience intense or distracting feelings.

Children often learn what they live, so if we’re reactive, they may be the same. They also have continually growing and changing brains, which seek safety. So, if they’re not feeling safe, they’ll react (i.e. exhibit challenging behaviors, meltdown). It’s almost impossible to focus when kids feel this way. Some kids feel this way a lot of the time. Practicing mindfulness helps children to experience a sense of space and safety within themselves, which strengthens their emotional resilience and ability to focus. This is all a process, and not necessarily a quick fix, but there’s a lot of continuing research which affirms the benefits of mindfulness with youth. Most importantly, sharing mindfulness with kids helps them learn about themselves while they learn new ways to deal with the challenges of being human.

Clear Kids Mindfulness Course for Youth is a based on the Mindful Schools Curriculum, along with additional exercises from complimentary mindfulness resources. When I started exploring mindfulness and wanted more skills to share it with my children, I decided to train with Mindful Schools. As a leading organization in the field, their curriculum is supported with continuing research and mindfulness techniques which are straight forward, simple and effective.

What the Course Covers

Mindfulness is a life skill that can be helpful in any situation. The course specifically offers exercises to explore body awareness, listening, breathing, kindness to others, generosity, awareness of thoughts, mindful seeing, caring about others, creating space for emotions, slowing down, mindful walking and movement, gratitude, mindful eating, test taking or other high pressure experiences and how to apply mindfulness to everyday life.

Here are three exercises from the course that you can share with youth.

Course Details

Description –  Clear Kids is a 16 lesson course designed to share various mindfulness exercises with youth of any age. Mindfulness exercises help with awareness, emotional regulation, focus and more. Live classes begin with an exercise and end with ten to fifteen minutes for sharing and questions. Parents are encouraged to attend with children and class size is limited to 8 families.

Format – Clear Kids is currently offered through live, interactive video sessions that take place with Zoom video or in person. For class you will need a computer with a strong internet connection, webcam for video and a reliable microphone. Live session audios are recorded. An audio course is being created, but may not be ready for a while so please join the mailing list for updates.

When – Live classes are scheduled at mutually agreeable times in a series of either 8 or 16 weekly – 20 to 30 minute sessions.

Cost – The live course is $75/group class and $125/private class (we schedule sessions with just your family at mutually convenient times). If you cannot afford to participate, but feel strongly that it will be helpful for you and your family, please contact me so we can work out a way for you to participate. Schools and businesses, please contact me directly to schedule an in person or video meeting to discuss the benefits of this curriculum.

How to Participate

No classes are scheduled currently

Thank you for your interest in sharing mindfulness with the youth in your life. Please email me if you are interested in scheduling a class.

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