Creative Mindfulness for Children: 4yrs-7yrs
Creative Mindfulness for Children: 4yrs-7yrs
About the Class
Welcome to the creative mindfulness for children course. This is a 6 lesson video recorded program suitable for children aged 4yrs-7yrs. This program has been created, designed, and recorded by Leona McDonnell who is an Irish-based IMMA accredited creative mindfulness kids practitioner.
How is the program structured?
There are 8 lessons in the program, which are structured as follows:
- Lesson 1: Our Stormy Minds of Thoughts and Emotions (The Mind Jar)
- Lesson 2: Calming and Taming our Busy Monkey Minds
- Lesson 3: All of My Emotions and Feelings are OK, Everything Belongs in my Heart
- Lesson 4: My Worries and Me
- Lesson 5: Sky Like Mind: Thoughts Passing Like Clouds
- Lesson 6: My Thoughts and Emotions in the Here and Now: Thought Trains
- Lesson 7: Being a Kind Friend to Myself
- Lesson 8: Gratitude: What Makes Me Who I am and What I am Grateful for in My Life
Each lesson includes the following elements:
- Lesson introduction and explanation from Leona
- A breathing practice
- A talk on the lesson theme
- A meditation practice
- An activity practice
- External supporting mindfulness videos
Leona has designed this program in a way that enables children to move through each lesson at their own pace. The program can be completed in their own time frame.
What will you learn in this course?
- Leona has devised this program in a way to help children to learn and understand that they don't have to be afraid of their thoughts and emotions, they don't have to believe what their thoughts tell them, they are not their thoughts, and they are so much bigger than their thoughts.
- Each lesson will help children to realize that it is okay to experience different thoughts, emotions, feelings, and the physical sensations that these can create in their bodies.
- Children will feel empowered that they now have mindful tools in their 'mindful tool box' to help them to self-regulate their breathing, their thoughts, and their emotions.
- Children will learn the importance of welcoming each emotion as they experience it, learn to be-friend themselves and each emotional visitor, and also learn how to help the emotions leave their minds and body when the time is right.
- Children will be equipped with a set of 'forever' coping tools and techniques to use in their daily lives.
The aim of this program is to bring mindfulness, meditation, wellness, and emotional resilience to children and to enhance their daily lives with forever coping tools and techniques to use during the daily demands and struggles of life that they face.
Having suffered from anxiety, fear, and worry as a young child and into her teenage years and early adulthood, Leona has devised this 8 lesson program in a way to teach and empower children from the inside out. This program fuels children with the knowledge that everything we need is already within us, we just need to learn how to use these internal built-in tools.
In this program, Leona helps children to realize, learn and use their internal strength and internal resources to build their confidence, mental, emotional, and physical resilience, and self-belief. Leona teaches children using the mindfulness, kindness, compassion, self-compassion, and resilience practices she uses daily in her own life to help her to live a calm, happy, peaceful, and confident life.
