Connected With Others : train to deliver emotional health course to teenagers
Connected With Others : train to deliver emotional health course to teenagers
6-week Zoom course | one 2-hour session per week
This course is also delivered in-person, in schools.
Contact us for next course start-dates and in-school possibilities.
Educators will explore research-based tools of mindfulness and emotional health and will experiment with how these can be presented to teenagers to enhance self-care, motivation and pro-social behaviour.
Fee: £180. Please contact us for concessionary rates.
INTRODUCTION
In this 6 x 2hour session Zoom course, educators will learn about Mind With Heart’s Connected With Others course, and how to deliver it to teenagers. The course is experiential and includes trial delivery to other teachers in the group and giving feedback to each other.
CONNECTED WITH OTHERS is a programme of ten x 1-hour sessions for teenagers. Mindfulness-based, these sessions enable students to develop a stronger sense of connection with themselves and with others. Through the sessions, students gain key emotional and social learning competencies including self-awareness, empathy and compassion.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR TEENAGERS
Develop self-awareness and explore the relationship between individual well-being and constructive relationships
Cultivate the ability to be present with ourselves and with others
Develop an awareness of others and a sense of solidarity and common humanity
Cultivate a caring and kind attitude towards self and others
Understand key principles regarding connection, including emotional cut-off, emotional contagion, empathy and compassion
Instructor
Fiona Clarke has been holding retreats, workshops and courses internationally for the past 15 years, sharing tools for well-being and connection with adults and children. Fiona supports school communities to flourish and thrive, using tools for emotional health such as mindfulness, empathy and compassion. She holds trainings with presence, humour, lightness, a sense of common humanity, and a deep empathic connection with others.
Instructor
David Rycroft is a senior trainer at Mind With Heart. He has been teaching mindfulness and connection exercises nationally and internationally for over 15 years. He taught art in a London secondary school for ten years before dedicating his time to developing and running programmes for young people’s emotional health.
What the 10-session course looks like for teenagers
Content is to be presented gradually and gently to young people.
The common 'agreement' (session 1) of listening, openness, non-judging and confidentiality are key to all sessions.
As Daniel Goleman states, the first blockage to compassion is the inability simply to be here, present in the face of whatever arises. This includes distraction, agitation, speed, stress, focusing on a narrow goal, obsessing about the past or worrying about the future, as well as a deeper avoidance or cutting-off from our own suffering and the suffering of others.
Mindfulness helps us develop presence and naturally overcome these habits of the mind.
Sessions 1-4 cover the following topics:
- presence and mindfulness
- emotional cut-off, emotional contagion, empathy and compassion
- how to be with emotions and the universality of emotions
Sessions 1-4 present the science of mindfulness, empathy, compassion and emotional intelligence.
Another blockage to compassion is the inability to love oneself, and the affiliated inability to envisage one’s own flourishing.
Session 5 addresses this through exploring one’s own flourishing - genuine love for ourself starts by generating, and believing in, the possibility that we can be truly happy.
Session 6 extends this to cultivating care and love for others.
Session 7 looks at how we can be a good friend to ourselves, how we can care for ourselves when we go through life's challenges.
Session 8 acknowledge the universality of life’s difficulties and deepen the themes of common humanity and a sense of equanimity.
Sessions 9 - 10 cultivate courage and positive intention, and take time to review what has been learnt.