Practitioner Diploma: Mindfulness for Children

The Little Legs programme offers six face-to-face half day sessions at your school, introducing Mindfulness as well as face-to-face Mindfulness sessions with classes within your school. Practical sessions delivered by the Mindfulness practitioner will focus on personal development, confidence building, leadership, conflict management and managing emotions with online module training, gap tasks, reflections and online assessments to gain accreditation as a Mindfulness Instructor, enabling your school to have the skills to develop and deliver a Mindfulness programme of your own to your students.

Session 1

Half day introduction to Mindfulness, introducing the course and the modules within. Explaining the online programme, assignments and assessment area and going through the timetable of the programme, expectations and requirements to receive accreditation.

Sessions 2-5

Practical half day workshops with the Mindfulness instructor delivering sessions to a group of children within the school to highlight and reinforce the practicalities of delivering a Mindfulness programme to students, supported by the modules within the online programme. How these sessions are timetabled can be discussed and decided between the trainer and the school.

Session 6

Celebration final session – all participants will deliver a Mindfulness session of their own design, with instructor on hand to offer support, giving them the chance to consolidate all their learning and showcase their new skills! Sessions are arranged to fit in with the school timetable. 

The online programme and modules can be started and assessments can be done any time after session 1. In order to receive accreditation, delegates must attend all face-to-face practical sessions and the online programme and assessments must be completed within 3 months of the introductory day. 

Through successful completion of the programme, participants will gain insight into:

• What mindfulness is, and where it all comes from
• How children can practise mindfulness, and how they can benefit from it
• Practical mindfulness and meditation exercises
• Other simple exercises, which are ideal for both adults and children
• The brain and its ability to create new neural pathways to adapt
• How the mind takes on new information and develops with us
• How it is possible to change patterns of thinking through mindfulness practices
• Accreditation as a Mindfulness Instructor within your school
• Diploma in Mindfulness Practice for Children  – Approved by IPTI (Independent Professional Therapists International) and CPD

Costs are negotiable and depends on the number of participants you wish to register for. Discounts are available for registration of large groups.

All participants will attend the half-day introductory session; the remaining half-day practical workshops will be carried out at the convenience of the school’s teaching schedule.