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Arts & Mindfulness In Education
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(17 ratings)
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Arts & Mindfulness In Education

May we give our children roots to grow and wings to fly ...
Created byArts Mindfulness
Last updated 1/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Tips on how to start or deepen your own mindfulness practice
  • Learn how to share mindfulness with children through art.
  • Learn about arts & mindfulness tools and content you can use.
  • Do's en don'ts when working with arts & mindfulness with young children.

Course content

5 sections • 18 lectures • 47m total length

  • Welcome, I am one of your teachers (Jeroen)2:18
  • Welcome, I am one of your teachers (Irma)1:30
  • What is AMiE?3:27

    Transcript Video


    • What is mindfulness?

    Jeroen Crobeck (mindfulness trainer, science teacher)

    Mindfulness is not emptying your mind it is not a religion, nor is it a new philosophy and it certainly does not mean you have to be calm and relaxed and sit still all the time. Mindfulness is just our natural human capacity to be aware of what is going on inside ourselves in our bodies, in our minds, and also in the environment. And this with an attitude of curiosity, openness, kindness, and care. Mindfulness is something you can practice, with training, you can develop it. During mindfulness training, you learn to move more towards your experiences from moment to moment, including the difficult ones in a very gentle way. You also learn to observe your thoughts and your feelings without getting really stuck in them, and in this way, mindfulness can bring us more clarity and allows us to see many possibilities that are always available in each moment.


    • Why mindfulness in education?

    Lieven Vercauteren (mindfulness trainer, teacher trainer, psychologist)

    Unfortunately, children are suffering much more from stress and anxiety these recent years and it has been proven by recent studies and deeper research about the subject. It shows that mindfulness is actually a fundamental human capacity that fosters well-being, mental and physical, for children and for teachers. So mindfulness can strengthen their ability to focus and regulate their thinking, so the way they process information. It also helps them to regulate their emotions and it helps them also with stress. It really helps them, it supports them. So they can learn more joyfully. Isn't that a great idea? They can stay balanced and we can even see them flourish more, in their school life and their life in general. Mindfulness is actually the basis of social-emotional skills, you know? I teach children to accept themselves and others which fosters a stronger and more productive class atmosphere and that is what inclusion is all about. Isn't it?


    • Why arts and mindfulness?

    Irma Smegen (mindfulness trainer, author, art teacher)

    Arts and mindfulness go well together, and they can reinforce each other. On the one hand, the arts can encourage the natural curiosity of children. The arts can invite them to be more mindful of their feelings, their thoughts, their emotions, and the world around them in a playful way. On the other hand, the skills that are trained during mindfulness exercises like non-judging and non-striving encourage children to try out new things and make mistakes. They learn to make mistakes and celebrate successes, which is important in arts and in life.

  • Course overview2:56

Requirements

  • No experience with mindfulness or art is needed to follow the course.

Description

This is a course about Arts and Mindfulness in Education, shortened as AMiE (which means ‘friend’ in French).

This is a concise beginners' course for everyone who wants to learn how to incorporate using the arts as a starting point for a broader and more engaging approach of mindful awareness training for young children.

You don't need to know anything about mindfulness, and, you need not know anything about art. Knowing something about both may be helpful, yet we created the course with an absolute beginner in mind.

We tailored our course in such a way that one can use it with an individual child or with different sizes of groups of children. Also we tried to keep it open to all ages, even though we ourselves experimented mostly with younger children.

You can use ideas for different concrete playful exercises on our accompanying Calminder website, with the extension 'eu'. Feel free to sneak a peak there even before you start with this free course!

We kept this course sweet and short, starting with the focus on “What is art-based mindfulness?”, then we help you get to become a bit more mindful yourself. Next we focus on our own AMiE-framework (and how you can use it), and we give some more input on how to work with our Calminder-website (where you can find exercises, music, and a FAQ-list). We added tips and tricks about how to work with art-based mindfulness and we end with offering you guidance towards further material and how to stay connected with the future of AMiE.

Will you become our next ‘amie’ ?

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for everyone wanting to share mindfulness in a fun and creative way with children from ages 3 untill 12 (older children and adults can also enjoy it)

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