ABSTRACT

Teaching Mindfulness in Schools is a practical teaching toolkit for educators and all professionals concerned with the social and emotional wellbeing of children. The book offers clear introductions to the many aspects and benefits of mindfulness for young people, as well as a wealth of practical guidance and tools to support the teaching of mindfulness in the classroom. Key features include: a range of stimulus materials including artwork and poems to read one-on-one with a child or for whole-class teaching; lesson plans, worksheets and colouring sheets to support a huge range of activity types including physical, creative and sensory exercises so that there is material to suit all the children you work with; audio recordings of guided mindfulness exercises for use in the classroom, narrated by the author and available to purchasers via the Speechmark website. Penny Moon is the founder of A Quiet Place, with nearly three decades of experience in workshop facilitation, teaching, emotional and behaviour development, psychotherapy, complimentary medicine, educational therapeutics and child, parent and family support.

chapter 1|11 pages

A children’s story

chapter 2|4 pages

Script-gathering awareness

chapter 3|1 pages

What is Mindfulness?

chapter 4|1 pages

Meditation

chapter 5|5 pages

Self-knowledge

chapter 6|1 pages

Well-being

chapter 7|2 pages

The brain

chapter 8|1 pages

Mindful thinking

chapter 9|2 pages

Multi-sensory

chapter 10|1 pages

Mindfulness – visual

chapter 11|1 pages

Mindfulness – auditory

chapter 12|1 pages

Mindfulness – kinaesthetic

chapter 13|1 pages

Mindful tasting and smelling

chapter 14|1 pages

Emotions

chapter 15|1 pages

Emotional intelligence

chapter 16|5 pages

Breathing

chapter 17|4 pages

Mindful exercise

chapter 18|5 pages

Teaching activities for Mindfulness

chapter 19|17 pages

Appendices

chapter 20|14 pages

Mindfulness sessions

chapter 21|1 pages

Mindfulness poem