Join Susan Kaiser Greenland, JD, for nine, step-by-step modules where you’ll discover empirically tested mindfulness activities you can implement immediately to help your young clients or students develop stronger attention, greater emotional intelligence, enhanced self-regulation skills, and strengthened compassion for themselves and others.

The Framework of Activity-Based Mindfulness

Most people are drawn to mindfulness because they want to fix something (whether it be with themselves or someone else, like parents with their children). In this module, you’ll gain essential foundational insight about mindfulness. You will learn the five methods of mindfulness practice, and a formula for mindfulness success — play, practice, share and apply.

Key topics covered in this module include:

Enhancing Attention Through Mindfulness

In module two, you’ll learn games that can help your young clients improve their focus, and strengthen their ability to quiet themselves, through various methods and themes.

Susan provides essential insight into:

Finding Balance Using Mindfulness

Module three brings light to the second category of mindfulness — balance. Through balance, kids can become more aware of what they are feeling and be okay with these feelings rather than trying to change or judge them. Building off balance, you will master games that can attune your client’s ability to focus.

You’ll learn:

A Wise and Compassionate Worldview

Broaden a child’s view of others to help them accept actions or traits they may not initially like with the training in module four.

Key topics covered in this module include:

Becoming Attuned to Your Mind & Body

Help children and adolescents recognize what is happening in their mind and body with the techniques in module five.

Key topics covered in this module include:

Reframing Perspectives Through Mindfulness

In module five, you’ll learn effective strategies to help children think of situations in a new light.

Key areas of focus in this module include:

Tools for Compassion

The third and final category in mindfulness is compassion, and module six focuses on the foundation and tools to effectively grow abilities for attuning, caring and connecting with the self and others.

After introducing compassion you’ll expand to cover:

Becoming Open-Minded

Mindfulness activities work best when children are open to participating, this module will give you effective strategies to help kids become more open-minded and willing to partake in activities.

You’ll learn to:

Implementing Mindfulness into Your Practice

In this final module, you’ll tie everything covered in the previous modules together, with a key focus on logistics and individualizing the tools, techniques games for your environment.

Specific areas of focus include: