Low-income schools benefit from teaching mindfulness

I teach mindfulness skills to children with abuse-reactive needs. All the children in my group session have experienced trauma.

I teach mindfulness (a type of meditation) to help them learn how to cope with stressful triggers.

My good friend and internship supervisor, Jennifer Kangas posted a neat article on facebook on how low income schools are seeing big benefits in teaching mindfulness.

It is a very good skill to have.

If you're interested in more, register for the self-study CEU course at my site:

Mindfulness: Techniques for stress management and healthier living

Practice of Therapeutic Recreation/ Recreation Therapy: using mindfulness training as a stress management intervention

• Five (5) Clock Hour or (0.5) CEUs. Notice ten (10) Clock Hours = 1.0 CEUs

• Course Objective: Independent self-study learner will demonstrate an awareness of using mindfulness training as an intervention as evidenced by reading Gill Hasson’s (2013) Mindfulness: be mindful/ live in the moment and passing an online written exam with a score of at least 70% or better within a one-year timeframe.

Here is the link to click if you want to sign-up for this course.
http://www.dannypettry.com/Courses.htm

Here is the link on how low-income schools are seeing benefits from teaching mindfulness skills:

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/low-income-schools-see-big-benefits-in-teaching-mindfulness/?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook