Classes, Workshops, & Courses
2021
New Professional Development Workshop for Educators
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness for Educators:
Trauma Healing Classrooms
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
-Thomas Merton
Full and Half days available
Trauma-Sensitive Teaching
Research suggests that trauma is more common than we may think among students in the US. More than half the students in our schools have experienced trauma, and when we consider students from urban school districts the numbers are higher. In the US, I in 3 children have experienced at least one ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience).
Trauma is real, trauma is prevalent, and trauma is toxic to the brain, affecting learning and behavior. As educators, we must be aware and ready to support our most vulnerable students and respond rather than react to traumatic maladaptive behaviors. When held in mindful and compassionate learning environments, students can grow to be resilient, heal and learn.
Psycho-education supports teachers in understanding the effects of trauma and ACE’s on the body, heart, and mind system. Through the cultivation of mindfulness and compassion practices, educators nurture presence and awareness helping them recognize the signs of trauma and respond in ways that support students through building caring and healthy relationships. Trauma-sensitive practices benefit all students and can be implemented in a simple fashion.
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion practices also support educators in mitigating the effects of empathy fatigue and burnout in some of the most challenging of environments and situations. Learning self-care practices, educators can develop skills and learn tools to nurture resilience in the face of trauma-affected youth.
Workshop Details:
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness for Educators: Trauma Healing Classrooms Workshop Teachers will walk away with a clear understanding of trauma and ACEs and how these affect student learning and behavior. Teachers will also learn about how trauma affects the brain, heart, and mind system, and tools to help nurture balance and safety for learning. Educators will learn how to build caring relationships and create safe environments with mindfulness practices that support student learning and prevent triggered behavior. Through using Social and Emotional Learning practices, teachers will be ready cultivate trauma-healing learning environments in their schools, and immediately implement practices in their classrooms.
Participants will also learn mindfulness awareness and compassion practices that support resilience and self-care that translates into care for others. This workshop is designed to be experiential, informative, collaborative, and practical. Educators will walk away with specific tools and strategies teachers can implement immediately in ways that support all students, including those that have or are experiencing trauma, violence, or extreme stress. For more information please contact Lina at the email below.
-Thomas Merton
Full and Half days available
Trauma-Sensitive Teaching
Research suggests that trauma is more common than we may think among students in the US. More than half the students in our schools have experienced trauma, and when we consider students from urban school districts the numbers are higher. In the US, I in 3 children have experienced at least one ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience).
Trauma is real, trauma is prevalent, and trauma is toxic to the brain, affecting learning and behavior. As educators, we must be aware and ready to support our most vulnerable students and respond rather than react to traumatic maladaptive behaviors. When held in mindful and compassionate learning environments, students can grow to be resilient, heal and learn.
Psycho-education supports teachers in understanding the effects of trauma and ACE’s on the body, heart, and mind system. Through the cultivation of mindfulness and compassion practices, educators nurture presence and awareness helping them recognize the signs of trauma and respond in ways that support students through building caring and healthy relationships. Trauma-sensitive practices benefit all students and can be implemented in a simple fashion.
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion practices also support educators in mitigating the effects of empathy fatigue and burnout in some of the most challenging of environments and situations. Learning self-care practices, educators can develop skills and learn tools to nurture resilience in the face of trauma-affected youth.
Workshop Details:
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness for Educators: Trauma Healing Classrooms Workshop Teachers will walk away with a clear understanding of trauma and ACEs and how these affect student learning and behavior. Teachers will also learn about how trauma affects the brain, heart, and mind system, and tools to help nurture balance and safety for learning. Educators will learn how to build caring relationships and create safe environments with mindfulness practices that support student learning and prevent triggered behavior. Through using Social and Emotional Learning practices, teachers will be ready cultivate trauma-healing learning environments in their schools, and immediately implement practices in their classrooms.
Participants will also learn mindfulness awareness and compassion practices that support resilience and self-care that translates into care for others. This workshop is designed to be experiential, informative, collaborative, and practical. Educators will walk away with specific tools and strategies teachers can implement immediately in ways that support all students, including those that have or are experiencing trauma, violence, or extreme stress. For more information please contact Lina at the email below.
Mindful Parenting
Mindful Parenting Workshops
Description:
Parenting may be one of the most challenging “jobs” we may ever have. The many demands of our very busy lives can cause stress and exhaustion. Take a pause for self-care that will translate into care for your family. Discover how Mindfulness can support parents in developing resilience, balance, and well-being.
In this workshop, parents and caretakers will take a much deserved pause to breathe and settle the body, heart, and mind through mindfulness meditation practice, journaling, and intention setting. From the space of stillness, it is possible to connect with your intention to find balance and happiness in parenting. Learn to strengthen present moment awareness and compassion in ways than can help foster deep connections within yourself and ripple out to the family unit. We will learn mindfulness tools that can help you manage stress and anxiety in your life as a parent.
This Worksop Includes:
- A two and a half hour session with Lina Blanchet a mother, teacher, and experienced mindfulness educator and practitioner
- An exploration of mindfulness of body, breath, self-compassion, and intention setting to begin the new year oriented in the direction of wellbeing
- An opportunity to meditate, receive mindful support, and foster connection in a mindful parenting community
- Support and advice in helping you establish or begin again with a personal mindfulness and meditation practice
- Reduced reactivity and an increased ability to respond more skillfully to stressful situations with your children
- Increased emotional awareness and awareness of your own stress reactions
- Nurtures presence and mindful listening that allows you tune in to your child’s actual needs
- Promotes compassionate and non-judgmental awareness in your interactions
- Cultivates healthier and more satisfying relationships within the family
About Facilitator
Lina Blanchet, M.Ed. Mindfulness for Educators
Lina brings with her a deep understanding of mindfulness practices and how to apply them to both educational and life contexts. She has been a student of mindfulness and meditation for fourteen years and holds a Masters in Mindfulness for Educators from Antioch University. Lina is a certified teacher in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania and has over eighteen years of teaching experience in both the US and abroad. She currently works as an instructor in the Mindfulness for Educators program at Antioch University’s Graduate School of Education and teaches mindfulness to teens in Philadelphia with the non-profit organization The Inner Strength Foundation. Lina offers workshops and professional development trainings to teachers, parents, and teens through mindfulness education programs.
Informed by her years studying and nurturing a personal mindfulness meditation practice, Lina guides students in discovering for themselves what mindfulness is with compassion, humor, and wisdom. From this space of personal knowing, she leads students in the cultivation of a mindfulness practice that can serve as a condition-less support system. Lina brings a compassionate awareness of the challenges faced by today's parents, educators, and teens. As a mother to a teen and an elementary school aged child, Lina brings her own personal experience in parenting to the realm of mindfulness and shares how mindfulness can help us find balance and strength with the challenges faced by today’s parents.
Mindful Parenting Testimonials:
“Lina is experienced not only in mindfulness but teaching and children. Her tools can be adopted by even the busiest parents, and in so doing, will help parents begin to use the practice of mindfulness to learn what causes them suffering. Parents will understand that they need self-compassion for themselves and then their children. We have to put on our oxygen mask first before we can help our children.”
-Sonia, 8/2019
Mindful Parenting Summer Camp
“This course has taught me to handle my stress appropriately. I feel calmer since starting the course. I look forward to using meditation and the other tools I’ve learned in my relationships with my children. Lina has given me the tools to start a new compassionate relationship with my children.”
-Jaqueline, 8/2019
Mindful Parenting Summer Camp
“When, I enrolled in this course, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Lina’s compassionate, non-judgmental approach while giving students the tools to help deal with stress is invaluable. Lina is an amazingly wonderful teacher, and I would recommend this course to anyone.”
-Carlos, 8/2019
Mindful Parenting Summer Camp
“I came to this course with limited knowledge and thought, "If I can gain one "nugget" of information to help me be a better parent, it will be worth it." I've walked away with a lot of great advice, actionable strategies, confidence that I am able to handle it, and a sense of pride knowing that I have more tools in the toolbox to help me be better equipped to handle the challenges of raising children. I've talked about working on this and I've bought the books to guide me, but being part of a class environment makes you accountable, and helped me to focus. Thank you so much!"
Deidre,
Participant in the 8-Week Mindful Parenting Course, (12/2018)
Antioch University: Mindfulness for Educators Program
Interested in in deepening your own practice and exploring and applying mindfulness-based approaches to your teaching or work context?
If you have already have taken one of my Mindfulness for Educators courses and would like to deepen your own practice and explore applying mindfulness-based approaches to your teaching or work context, consider the The Mindfulness for Educators Certificate and Masters Programs at Antioch University. As a graduate and now an instructor in the Mindfulness for Educators program, I can attest to the transformative power of bringing the mindful approach to teaching and learning.
The Mindfulness for Educators Certificate Program trains educators in the core practices of mindfulness and compassion, as formal practices and as lived and embodied responses to life in the classroom and in the world. Antioch University New England has the only graduate program with a focus on mindfulness that is just for teachers.
Please follow the link below or reach out for more information:
www.antioch.edu/new-england/degrees-programs/education/mindfulness-for-educators-graduate-certificate/
Discover the transformative power of the mindful approach to teaching in 2021!
Need based and sliding scale fees available.
For more information, please contact me.