TEACHING MINDFULNESS TO KIDS AND TEENS RETREAT
GROWING UP MINDFUL
with Dr. Chris Willard | Barcelos, Portugal
Growing Up Mindful Retreat Program with Dr. Chris Willard
Today's fast-paced, connected, and highly charged world is placing unprecedented stress and pressure on kids and teens. Youth need effective skills to cope with the increasingly demanding lifestyle, combat the symptoms, and establish mindful and compassionate living — to last a lifetime. Join one of the world's leading experts on mindfulness techniques for youth and teens, Dr. Christopher Willard, for a new certificate course on Mindfulness interventions for kids and teens.
About the Retreat Program
This program will add some depth to your mindfulness practice and empower you with the some tools to share and adapt mindfulness for youth in practical and engaging ways. You'll learn strategies and techniques that will improve social-emotional resilience and executive function, proven interventions for ADHD and emotional regulation, and powerful clinical skills to heal trauma and anxiety.
Weekend September 19th to 21st
Investment: 340€ (about $390USD Includes simple meals and lodging at the monastery)
Handouts and Guided Practices
Barcelos - Portugal
English, Portuguese translation available
Certificate
Join author, speaker and clinical psychologist Dr. Chris Willard in a fun and interactive workshop for everyone interested in sharing mindfulness with children of all ages.
SAVE YOUR SPOT!Key components and intentions of this highly
experiential weekend training include
The importance of personal Mindfulness Practice
Learn ways to cultivate your personal practice.
Enjoy guided practices to connect within.
Neuroscience behind Mindfulness
Learn how mindfulness keeps depression, PTSD, anxiety and aggression at bay.
Explore playful and practical exercises to explore the mind-body connection.
Learn how to use the breath as a “remote control” for our minds, bodies and emotions.
Managing the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Understand what mindfulness is and isn’t when working with kids and families facing a crisis of mental health.
Learn accessible ways to help kids and families slow down and be in the present moment.
Explore how to deal with doubt: whether it’s your own, your colleagues, or the kids’ doubt.
Anxiety, ADHD and Impulse Control: Body Based Mindful Awareness
Learn how to befriend the body as a source of wisdom and healing.
Discover how to
help kids integrate their mind and body to maximize health, mental health, and learning
Make mindful movement and walking fun, funny, and engaging!
Explore Mindful eating — Real world ideas and insights beyond the raisins for anxiety, depression, ADHD, impulse control and more.
Make Mindfulness Fun! Arts, Games, Sports and More
Explore creative ways to make mindfulness fun by integrating it into the activities they are most interested in and enjoy.
Bring mindfulness to games for kids who struggle with attention.
Create your own visualizations with kids.
Make the virtual virtuous with mindful uses of technology
Explore small group and partner practices.
Mindfulness and Compassion in Action
Learn additional compassion based-practices, plus ways to cultivate mindful and compassionate workplaces, schools, families and communities.
Building a Teacher Community
Creating a mutually supportive community of teaching will be a core aim of this training, and that includes the creation of an ongoing support system that continues after the training ends.
About your Teacher
Christopher Willard, Psy. D., is one of the world's leading experts on mindfulness with young people, having trained thousands of professionals and young people on the practice and benefits of mindfulness. He is a psychologist and consultant based in Boston, working individually as well as consulting to schools, hospitals and other organizations. Additionally, he is the author of multiple books on psychology, child development, contemplative practice and more. Dr. Willard is the president of the Mindfulness in Education Network and serves on the board of directors at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. In addition to serving on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Willard leads courses and workshops around the world and online. You can find his website at drchristopherwillard.com, where you can watch his TEDx talks and learn more about his books and work. Dr. Willard is the author of Child's Mind (2010), Growing Up Mindful (2016) and three other books. He is the co-author of the bestselling card decks Growing Mindful and Growing Happy.
Join the Growing Up Mindful Retreat Program in Barcelos, Portugal with Dr. Chris Willard
September 19th to September 21st
SAVE YOUR SPOT!