Mindfulness for Teens
Are you worried about school? Are you experiencing stress at home with family or with your friends? Do you feel overwhelmed and disconnected? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you are like many teens. Being a teen can be really stressful! The good news is that there are tools to help you manage stress, find balance, and live a happier life.
How mindfulness can help?
Mindfulness helps teens navigate this complicated and sometimes confusing world. Mindfulness helps us cultivate self-awareness, cope with difficult emotions and stress, and increase concentration in an age of digital distraction. Mindfulness practices also nurture self-compassion and empathy, and it teaches teens to accept themselves and build positive relationships with the world.
Class Description:
Mindfulness for Teens is an eight-week course that introduces teens to foundational mindfulness practices that help reduce stress, improve attention, and navigate thoughts and emotions. Students will learn the skills that promote well-being and balance.
With seventeen years of experience teaching teens in the US and abroad, an established mindfulness practice of over twelve years, and a Master’s in Mindfulness for Educators, Lina Blanchet leads students with wisdom and compassion in exploring the power of present moment awareness in a safe, supportive, and fun environment.
This course draws upon the following evidence-based mindfulness programs for teens: The Inner Strength Teen Program by Amy Edelstein and the Learning to Breathe mindfulness curriculum by Patricia Broderick., PHD. Lina has recently trained with The Inner Strength Foundation and draws upon this evidence-based Inner Strength Program for Teens that combines stress-reduction, mindful focus, and empathy building techniques with systems thinking.
Each session will include a guided mindfulness meditation, self-reflection, engaging activities, discussions, and herbal tea.
This Course offers:
Research data suggests that mindfulness helps teens across a wide variety of conditions including:
Research data also suggests that mindfulness helps teens:
Instructor: Lina Blanchet, M.Ed. Mindfulness for Educators
Class Dates: New Dates TBA in January 2019
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Registration Fees: TBA
*Need based and sliding scale fees available.
Please Register your interest below.
Mindfulness helps teens navigate this complicated and sometimes confusing world. Mindfulness helps us cultivate self-awareness, cope with difficult emotions and stress, and increase concentration in an age of digital distraction. Mindfulness practices also nurture self-compassion and empathy, and it teaches teens to accept themselves and build positive relationships with the world.
Class Description:
Mindfulness for Teens is an eight-week course that introduces teens to foundational mindfulness practices that help reduce stress, improve attention, and navigate thoughts and emotions. Students will learn the skills that promote well-being and balance.
With seventeen years of experience teaching teens in the US and abroad, an established mindfulness practice of over twelve years, and a Master’s in Mindfulness for Educators, Lina Blanchet leads students with wisdom and compassion in exploring the power of present moment awareness in a safe, supportive, and fun environment.
This course draws upon the following evidence-based mindfulness programs for teens: The Inner Strength Teen Program by Amy Edelstein and the Learning to Breathe mindfulness curriculum by Patricia Broderick., PHD. Lina has recently trained with The Inner Strength Foundation and draws upon this evidence-based Inner Strength Program for Teens that combines stress-reduction, mindful focus, and empathy building techniques with systems thinking.
Each session will include a guided mindfulness meditation, self-reflection, engaging activities, discussions, and herbal tea.
This Course offers:
- Eight weekly sessions 1.5-hour sessions with an experienced mindfulness educator and practitioner
- An understanding of what exactly mindfulness is
- An exploration and understanding of adolescent neuroscience
- Tools and guided instruction in mindfulness meditation to help teens establish a personal mindfulness meditation practice
- Self-care tools and practices to help teens re-connect with their bodies
- Practices that help teens nurture compassion for self and others
- Recorded Guided Meditations provided each week via email
- Handouts to support learning
- Support, Group discussion, and dialogue
Research data suggests that mindfulness helps teens across a wide variety of conditions including:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Stress
- ADHD
- Substance abuse
- Coping with chronic illness
Research data also suggests that mindfulness helps teens:
- Focus better and improve the quality of their attention
- Lower stress
- Increase compassion for self and others
Instructor: Lina Blanchet, M.Ed. Mindfulness for Educators
Class Dates: New Dates TBA in January 2019
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Registration Fees: TBA
*Need based and sliding scale fees available.
Please Register your interest below.