Making Mindfulness Stick with Kids and Teens: A workshop for parents and professionals

Facilitated by: Chris Willard, PsyD.

Saturday, February 23, 2018

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

 Workshop Details
Join bestselling author, psychologist and consultant Dr. Christopher Willard in this one-day workshop on bringing mindfulness to kids, teens, and families. Dr. Willard will be sharing practices for professionals and parents to use themselves and take home to their children. We will explore the importance of our own practice, starting or deepening our own mindful self-care as caregivers. Mindfulness is more than just breathing, and so is this workshop. Participants should be prepared for a fun day learning and practicing mindfulness through awareness, movement, games, play, and creative activities for all ages.

We will discuss tailoring techniques to a range of kids issues, including learning differences, medical concerns, and mental health issues, for attention spans ranging from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.

- What is mindfulness, the neuroscience of mindfulness and compassion, playful breath practices

- Mindfulness for you the parent or professional, mindful eating and movement with kids

- Adapting mindfulness with games, movement, visualizations, sensory practices and more, along with some research

- Gaining buy-in and engagement from kids, integrating mindfulness into school/therapy/family life, short practices, technology, and compassion 

Workshop fee:  $150.00, which includes a Certificate of Completion for 3 hours for licensed psychologists, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and social workers in Washington State. We can not guarantee that these CEUs will be accepted in other states. 

Financial Assistance

• A limited number of scholarships are available per course. To apply for a scholarship, please review criteria and complete the application form at: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mindful/237140  Note: Please complete your application at least 3 weeks before course. Applicants must wait to register for the course until a decision has been made in order to qualify. 

Pay it Forward - Support the Scholarship Fund

If you are able to pay more for the course, we encourage you to consider donating to the Mindfulness Outreach Fund which allows CCFW to offer 50% and 100% scholarships to community members to aid in the cost of registration fees for mindfulness courses. Scholarships are awarded to increase accessibility of mindfulness and compassion training for individuals who have limited resources to obtain such training and to those who work in communities experiencing adversity. To make a donation to the scholarship fund, please visit http://giving.uw.edu/mindfulness

About the Facilitator:

Dr. Christopher Willard (PsyD) is a psychologist and educational consultant based in Boston specializing in mindfulness.  He has been practicing meditation for 20 years and leads workshops nationally and internationally. He currently serves on the board of directors at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and is the president of the Mindfulness in Education Network. He has presented at TEDx conferences and his thoughts have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, mindful.org, and elsewhere. He is the author of Child’s Mind (2010) Growing Up Mindful (2016) Raising Resilience (2017) and three other books. He has three children's books forthcoming and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

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