A Quick Introduction To Mindfulness – Free E-book – Download it HERE


“Mindfulness is a way of life, an inner resource available to all that improves mental balance, increases our ability to focus and be attentive and cultivate emotional resilience”. R Riccola




Learn How To Teach Mindfulness Using Proven Methods


3 day Mindfulness Teacher Training Certificate Course based on the latest research and techniques on teaching mindfulness

Learn & Practise IN A SAFE & Relaxed setting


This course will give you the background, science, practices and techniques to teach/guide others and to establish a regular practice  yourself. Mindfulness is gaining  recognition as a resource to improve people’s ability to deal with stress, pressure and anxiety. 

The course is based on the successful programme Mindful NZ Schools has been running the past three years as well as latest research and techniques on teaching mindfulness designed by the original MBSR members
who trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn. 

It’s an inter-active course covering theory, activities and practices. Participants get the opportunity to ‘teach/guide’ classes for first-hand experience. The course is over 3 days; You can attend 1,2 or 3 days. If you have any questions call or text; 021 238 7799

TOOLS & RESOURCES
The course includes printed lesson plans,practices and scripts to assist teachers on all levels to
introduce Mindfulness into the home for groups as well as classrooms.


Course in Auckland 14-16 January 2016
TIME & PLACE
Location: Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby Auckland
Thursday: 1.00-5.00pm
Friday: 10.00am-4.00pm
Saturday: 10.00am-4.00pm
Cost:
All 3 days: $595
2 days: $450
First day (half day): $145
Concessions available.

MAKE A BOOKING


“Rita is a fabulous facilitator – she made us feel extremely comfortable, was open minded and encouraged us all to share from our diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise. I came away with many very practical, easy to use exercises that I have since been using with with my classes of various ages. Thank you Rita for gifting me such a wonderful and enjoyable afternoon of learning”.
-Louise Dore, Auckland


Course Content


  • What is Mindfulness?
  • How does it work?
    Evidence-based research results
    and the neuroscience.
  • Why Teach Mindfulness to Students and Children.
  • Breathing Exercise 1 and 2
  • Guided Body Scan
  • The STOP Method
  • How to build a MIndfulness Lesson
  • Tools & Resources




  • How to identifying patterns of thinking and reacting that keep us trapped.
  • Practical ways to work with  Difficult Thoughts and Emotions.
  • Turning boredom and restlessness into curiosity
  • Mindful Listening-expanded awareness.
  • The ‘Mountain meditation’
  • Training Session – Teaching Mindfulness
  • Questions and Answers, feedback/personal Enquiry into your own experience



This three day Mindfulness Trainers Certificate course is based on the successful Mindfulness programme that Mindful NZ Schools has has been running in NZ for the past 3 years. The course is based on the latest research and techniques on teaching mindfulness designed by the original MBSR members who trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn. This training will give you a resource to improve everyone’s, including students and children’s ability to deal with stress and anxiety as well as improve attention and focus and cultivate kindness and empathy. Activities and practices will be taught to help engage students in the mindfulness process and assist in internalising the mindfulness process.

Studies have shown that emotional regulation, social behaviour and academic achievement have noticeably improved for those who have received Mindfulness instructions.

Benefits such as:

  • Decreased stress and anxiety
  • Better sleep
  • Better self-management
  • Less reactivity
  • Improved mental resilience
  • Increased self-awareness
  • Better memory
  • Increased attention and focus
  • Better conflict resolution skills

are common and expectable result from regular Mindfulness practice.

What will you learn?


In these 3 days you will not only be introduced to the powerful Mindfulness techniques that are helping individuals from all walks of life to have more balance, harmony and focus in their lives. You will also receive the tools and training to teach these techniques to everyone including students and children, in a way that makes it interesting and non-intrusive.

As the benefits from Mindfulness are becoming more widely recognised and acknowledged, there is now a real opportunity for everyone, including teachers social workers and parents who see the value of attention training and mindfulness exercises to help improve focus, impulse control.

THE TRAINER

Rita Riccola has been a Meditation and yoga practitioner for 25 years. Rita has completed courses with Mindful Schools USA. More recently she has been training teachers at Diocesan and Dilworth Junior College in Mindfulness in the effort to take the practices to their students.

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What do you get from this Workshop?


  • Guidance given by experienced mindfulness trainer
  • The opportunity to learn in a safe, relaxed environment with a beginner group.
  • Learning simple practices to help students and children to relax the body, eliminate stress, calm the mind
  • Improve mental and physical well-being, by changing patterns of anxious thinking
  • Be empowered by the discovery that you can self-manage your thoughts and emotions
  • Deepen your contact with your natural intelligence and intuition.
  • How to build mindfulness lessons that is accessible for children of all ages
  • Written 8 weeeks lesson plans and practices including powerpoint and audio links

About the Facilitator


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Rita Riccola


“Rita is a fabulous facilitator – she made us feel extremely comfortable, was open minded and encouraged us all to share from our diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise. I came away with many very practical, easy to use exercises that I have since been using with with my classes of various ages. Thank you Rita for gifting me such a wonderful and enjoyable afternoon of learning”.
-Louise Dore, Auckland



RITA RICCOLA


Rita Has been a meditation and yoga practitioner for 25 years. Rita has completed courses with Mindful Schools USA in preparation to offer schools in New Zealand Mindfulness classes. In 2012 she set up Mindful NZ Schools in an effort to bring Mindfulness practices and the proven benefits to schoolchildren in New Zealand.
As a teacher, I saw first-hand, in High School classrooms, the great need to equip children with impulse control and self-managing techniques that would help them deal with the increasing stress and demands in their lives.

James Cook High, Tangaroa College, Dilworth Junior College, Henderson High School are some of the schools she has worked at. More recently she has been training teachers at Diocesan and Dilworth Junior College in Mindfulness in an effort take the practices to their students. She has also been running Mindfulness seminars, weekly classes for adults and an after-school programme for children and parents for the past 2 years at Grey Lynn Community Center.

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14-16 January 2016

Venue: St Columba Centre,
40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby
Cost: $595

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A QUICK INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULNESS


“When you begin to practice mindfulness almost immediately you become aware of a new spaciousness inside yourself, a calmness and stillness- you give your mind a rest from incessant thinking and reacting”.

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Download The Mindfulness Introduction E-book in PDF format for Free

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Will I need to do more courses after this?
No, not necessary, The written material and training you get from this half day workshop will give you the tools and confidence to teach Mindfulness to students and children. You just need to establish a daily practice, which you will learn in the workshop how to do at home. Many people find being part of a Mindfulness group that meets regularly (typically once a week) is beneficial. Practicing in the company of other like-minded people is always rewarding and energising.

100% Money Back Guarantee
If you, after attending this workshop, are not satisfied, you are entitled to a full refund.

“Mindfulness makes me get more sleep and helps me to get fall asleep”
Year 5 student, Dilworth Junior, Auckland


“When I am trying to get to sleep I use the body scan. It really works!”
Student, James Cook High, Auckland


‘The body scan felt relaxing and calm which took all the anger away”.

Year 5 student, Dilworth Junior, Auckland

Why Mindfulness?


Evidence based results from around the world continue to show that the regular practise of Mindfulness has ongoing benefits for physical and mental health. Research over the past few decades has found that Mindfulness training helps to;

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Relieve Anxiety & Stress


In our fast paced lives, where we rush from one demand to another, there is very little time or space to stop and pause. Mindfulness offer the tools needed to connect with our inner intelligence, where we can access natural calmness beneath the busy minds.


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Let go of Anger & Frustration


Coming in contact with your direct experience in the mindful state allows us to become familiar with the patterns that direct our lives; our thoughts, emotions and reactions.


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OVERCOME WORRYING
& NEGATIVE THINKING


Pain is an inevitable part of being human but suffering is optional. In Mindfulness we learn how to manage our thoughts and emotions instead of letting emotions and thoughts manage us.

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STOP INNER CHATTER


Aimless thinking and inner chatter is draining our energy and clouding over the present moment. One of the most common benefits from regular Mindfulness training is greater mental clarity and a new sense of inner peace.


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Have Better Sleep


To be able stop incessant thinking and worrying is one of the great benefits of Mindfulness and it makes it easier to sleep in and have unbroken sleep throughout the night.


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STOP LIVING IN THE PAST


Mindfulness practices increasingly bring you more into the present with the growing awareness that going over the past keeps you stuck in the past.

Frequently Asked Questions

Mindfulness means “paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn. (Founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction)

Mindfulness is a way of noticing where your attention is in the present moment without judging it good or bad. It’s about not wandering off into an imagined future or going over the past but fully engaging right here right now.

The ability to focus on one thing at a time is a skill and requires practice. Just as athletes train on a daily basis to maintain fitness and stamina, Mindfulness, which is a mental training, requires regular daily practice to experience the many well documented benefits especially of de-stressing, relaxing the body and generally self-managing in a new and empowering way.

Through guided, simple easy-to-do practisies you are training the mind to be more present in the moment. resulting in it to be less anxious, more alert and alive.

Everyone really and especially anyone

  • Who over-thinks
  • Thinks anxiously as a regular behavior.
  • Stressed people
  • People who engage in constant negative self-talk
  • People who can’t sleep because of incessant inner chatter
  • People who operate on ‘auto-pilot’ and are always ‘on’..
Current research tells us 20 minutes a day is required to achieve lasting benefits. This can be broken into two 10 minutes sessions-easily do-able when you experience the inner calm and rest from the robotic mind.
You will slowly (sometimes quickly) begin to experience a lightness of being, less anxiety, better sleep, easier communications and a general improved sense of well-being and have more energy. These are not empty promises but almost guaranteed if you follow the instructions, do the practices regularly and begin to live more Mindfully.
Meditation and Mindfulness are very similar the only difference being that Meditation takes many more forms;chanting, mantras as well as breathing and visualisations however Mindfulness meditation is a specific set of exercises that focus exclusively on the five senses.
Many places that run Mindfulness courses do so on a donation basis and are connected to spiritual centers. Mindfulness in New Zealand is an independent group and the trainers pay to live just like everyone else. Everybody needs to be paid for their effort as well as the cost of hiring venues and paying advertising to let people know the courses exist.

NON RELIGIOUS


There is no religion, dogma or beliefs attached to Mindfulness. Mindfulness has it’s roots in many contemplative practices but doesn’t require or impose on anyones belief systems. It’s a mental activity that has proven to be of great benefit for maintaining physical, mental and emotional balance.



Evidence Based

The many benefits of Mindfulness have been well documented especially in the past 30 years since Jon Kabat-Zinn established the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programme that has led to the wide-spread, evidence based research and the acceptance of these non-religious, practical exercises anyone can do.




MINDFULNESS FOR EVERYONE


Mindfulness practice doesn’t require any preparation or beforehand knowledge about meditation. Anyone can experience the effect from these simple exercises.