Adolescents can live in a very complex and volatile world. While they're taught many great subjects at school, who's teaching them how to ride the waves of today's world and deal with their own emotions (and many more challenges) as they grow up?
Emotional learning enables teenagers to have better interpersonal relationships, coping skills and effective learning abilities.
In my 10 weeks 'B' course, teenagers get to learn and apply essential self-management tools to deal with frequent mental states (i.e. worry before exams) and to develop their concentration and well-being.
The materials are based on rigorous research in clinical psychology and neuroscience, written by teachers for teachers, and used successfully in a wide range of educational contexts.
Click below to get a free sample lesson and explore below more about the full transformative 10 weeks 'B' program.
TEENS & YOUTH
The course program "B"
If you’re looking to bring a powerful emotional learning journey to your teens or to your school, this is a great place to start:
Week 0 — An Introduction to Mindfulness
An introductory lesson that presents young people with mindfulness and why it is worth learning by making it relevant and practical to their lives.
Week 1 — Playing Attention
Introduces students to this thing we call our “attention” which, like a puppy or swimming, needs to be trained.
Week 2 — Taming the Animal Mind
Explores different mind states and teaches that ‘anchoring’ attention in the body, alongside the cultivation of curiosity and kindness, can be calming and nourishing.
Week 3— Recognising Worry
Explains the tricks our mind plays that lead to stress and anxiety, and gives us techniques to deal with them.
Week 4— Being Here Now
Comes to the heart of mindfulness and teaches us how to respond, rather than react, to whatever happens in our lives.
Week 5— Moving Mindfully
Shows us that mindfulness is not just something we do sitting or lying down. It also looks at high performance in sports.
Week 6— Stepping Back
Offers us a new way of relating to our thoughts. We don’t have to let them carry us away to places we’d rather not be.
Week 7— Befriending the Difficult
Deals with the greatest challenge of all: dealing with difficult emotions.
Week 8— Taking in The Good
Focuses on gratitude and the ‘heartfulness’ of taking in and savouring what is ‘good’ in life.
Week 9— Pulling it All Together
Consolidates the key techniques from B and inspires students to use what they have learned in the future.
"Let´s help recognize the emotional states of our younger generations and give them a platform to express them."
— Nacor Elliot
MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING
Besides helping teens to recognize worry, manage difficulties and cope with exams, developing a more mindful awareness also helps them to appreciate what is going well and to flourish.
CONCENTRATION
Mindfulness trains us to understand and direct our attention with greater awareness and skill. This may improve the capacity of children to concentrate and be less distracted, as well as their working memory and ability to plan.
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SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LEARNING
It helps to develop a greater awareness of relationships and how to manage them (including difficult ones), as well as offering a richer understanding of components like self-esteem and optimism - critical for academic and life development.
BEHAVIOR CHANGE
Mindfulness can help teenagers to self-regulate more effectively, manage reactivity and reduce conflict and oppositional behaviour. It should not, however, be used as a disciplinary tool.
