Well Teachers, Well Students

Well Teachers, Well Students

When

25 Jan 2025 - 26 Jan 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Asia/Singapore

Event Tag

This course introduces participants to the fundamentals of wellness and gives them an opportunity to reflect on the balance across wellness domains in their life. It also introduces the elements of mindfulness as a tool to reduce stress in an individual’s life and in the caretaking relationship between educators and students. Trauma informed mindful sitting, movement, and walking practices are introduced that can be used in individual practice or in group practice in schools. The course concludes with participants making a plan to achieve the wellness goals they set at the start of the course, with the possibility of integrating regular mindfulness practice into their lives.

Objectives
Participants will be able to:

  • Share with others what mindfulness is and its benefits
  • Understand how mindfulness relates to adult wellness and social and emotional learning in the classroom
  • See their personal wellness goals and make a plan to progress on them

Outline
Session 1: Wellness and Mindfulness Defined

  • Practice an environmental scan
  • Define wellness and source daily wellness practices from the group
  • Create some goals to improve your wellness in the months ahead
  • Learn what mindfulness is and is not, it’s benefits, and what it looks like in caretaking relationships
  • In an experiential activity, make connections between the basics of mindfulness and the Center for Academic and Social and Emotional Learning’s basic five competencies.
  • Learn about the zones of experience and the stress response and how they can help teachers to be trauma informed meditation guides and students increase self-awareness and self-regulation when meditating

Session 2: Reducing Stress and Creating a Wellness Plan

  • Practice a group movement activity for settling the nervous system
  • Group activity and discussion about the location of uncomfortable feelings in the body
  • Walking meditation practice
  • Draw ways to reduce stress in life
  • Ways mindfulness contributes to stress reduction
  • Make a plan to achieve your wellness goals in the months ahead
  • Q & A

Trainer’s Profile
Jill S. is a  social and emotional learning trainer and coach based out of Blaine, WA, USA. For most of her 25-year career, she has worked in American and Chinese public and independent schools with young people (ages 2-18) and their families as a teacher, school administrator, and most recently the Teacher Coach and Academic Director of Pullman Community Montessori in Washington state. Holding a master’s degree in educational leadership from DePaul University in Chicago, IL, USA, as well as a Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Facilitator qualification from Brown University, she brings a mindful lens to educational practice. She has practiced meditation for thirty years and has led meditation practice groups for fifteen years. She is fascinated by the ways that schools acculturate students and enjoys sharing tools to help make classrooms and subsequently cultures places that work for us all!

Methodology
Didactic presentations, group discussion, sitting, walking, and movement meditation practices, drawing.

Platform
Zoom
A Zoom account is not required if you are strictly joining Zoom Meetings as a participant. An email invite will be emailed to you prior to the live workshop. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center. Otherwise, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.

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Target Audience
Teachers, administrators, and school counselors working with students of any age.

Fees
1 person: SGD400.00 (USD320.00)/person
2 to 4 person: SGD380.00 (USD310.00)/person
5 person & more: SGD360.00 (USD300.00)/person
E-certificate will be issued

Other Details
Duration: 2 days, 6 hours
Closing Date:  17 Jan 2025

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