Accredited Training for School Staff:
Become a Mindful & Wellbeing Practitioner
(Currently updating - available from March 2024)
Research is showing the benefits of young people being more mindful and having the tools and techniques to support their own mental health and wellbeing. Mindful and wellbeing strategies can help to reduce anxiety, improve social skills, increase awareness and attention and also give young people an understanding of their own thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
There is a 2-pronged approach to training to become a Mindful & Wellbeing Practitioner, as well as being able to teach your pupils learning and techniques to support their mental health and wellbeing, an additional aspect of this training is that you complete the Mindful & Wellbeing course yourself to support your own mental health and wellbeing.
The current training course will give you the resource to deliver a 9-moduled Mindful & Wellbeing course to pupils in Year 5 and 6 either as a whole class, small groups or 1:1, or Year 7 and 8 as a supportive intervention in small groups or 1:1.
Training Content - We are currently working on new materials and delivery for our train-the-trainer courses and will re-launch in March 2024.
This training is for any school member of staff who wants to support, develop and enhance young people’s mental health and overall wellbeing. To empower
young people to have an understanding of their own thoughts, feelings and behaviours and have simple yet effective mindful techniques to support them
with self-regulation, life transitions, stresses and worries. The course manual is suitable for pupils from Year 5 up to Year 11.
- 12 Units of learning and guidance to achieve accreditation as a Mindful & Wellbeing Practitioner.
- A comprehensive 9-moduled Mindful & Wellbeing course manual for you to work through with young people.
- Documents for the RSE Wellbeing Objectives, 5 Ways to Wellbeing Objectives and the Mindful & Wellbeing Course Objectives.
- Two-pronged approach to learning (learn for own wellbeing, then have the confidence, skills and tools to pass learning onto pupils).
- Ultimate flexibility, learn and deliver sessions and activities at your own pace.
- Clear and concise learning units and examples to support the delivery of the Mindful & Wellbeing course manual to young people.
- Lifetime use of the PDF Mindful & Wellbeing course manual to work with pupils with 45 mindful and wellbeing sessions and 45 follow up activities, 7 mindful moment activities and 6 breathing techniques.
- Accreditation certificate for 24 hours of CPD to achieve becoming a a Mindful & Wellbeing Practitioner with Developing Matters CIC.
- Skills to support young people as a preventative of poor mental health or to support young people who are struggling with worries, busy minds and difficult life transitions or events.
