The MIndful Edge Teacher Training Programs

The Mindful Edge: Stress Management and Life Strategies for Teens and Young Adults Teacher Training Program

The Mindful Edge Skill for Being with the Ups and Downs in Life Logo
5-Session Workshops for Students (grades 6-8 | 9-12) ages 12-19.

The Mindful Edge® is a specially developed program to provide Stress Reduction and Life Strategies for Teens. It is based on the principles of the MBSR Workshop program created by Jon Kabat-Zinn. The Mindful Edge™ combines the practices of mindfulness with knowledge of brain science, positive psychology, movement and healthy living skills to create a program that benefits teens socially, emotionally, physically and academically.

Students actively participate in the process of unfolding a practical understanding of mindfulness and how it can benefit them in their lives.

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Course Structure

The program is composed of 1.5-hour themed lessons, in 3 units, delivered either in small groups, both in person or online. The Overall Program Goal – Resilience: Skill for being with the ups and downs in life

Core Lessons Unit 1 – The Essentials

Physiology of stress and how mindfulness can ease and help manage students’ response to stress.  

Intro to mindfulness and relevance for students, establishing personal connection – the buy-in.

Experience of mindful practices that use body and breath as an anchor to attention: body scan, circle breathing, mindful eating.

The neuroscience of attention and neuroplasticity.

Going forward, reviewing how participants can implement mindfulness practice into daily life.

Core Lessons Unit 2 – SEL (Social and Emotional Learning)

Exploring thinking, including the impacts of perception, implicit bias, cognitive distortions. Cultivating mindful self-compassion as a means to manage negative self-talk.

What is Social and Emotional Intelligence? Exploring emotional literacy, moods, feelings and the continuum of emotions. 

We can learn to manage strong emotions in a way that helps us identify our needs and get them met in situations, and does not escalate them.

Happiness is a state that can be cultivated through practicing gratitude, appreciation & kindness, drawing on the recent research on Positive Psychology.

Going forward, reviewing how participants can practice healthy mental and physical habits, self-awareness, emotion regulation and connection.

Core Lessons Unit 3 – Mindful Leadership

Investigating the aspects of mindfulness that support leadership: awareness, attention, intention and action.

Teens have the opporutnity to practice guiding simple mindfulness and coping skills with mentoring.

Relationships and connection can be enhanced through practicing mindful speaking and listening. Principles of mindful communication include setting an intention, being fully present, remaining open and non-judgmental, and relating to others with compassion.

Exploring mindful art-based activities.

Putting It All Together. Going forward, reviewing how participants can implement mindfulness practices with their peers.

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