“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 Facilitate Mindfulness Using Proven Techniques

2 day Mindfulness Facilitator Certificate Course based on the latest research and techniques for guiding mindfulness classes.

Learn & Practise IN A SAFE & Relaxed setting

This course will give you the background, science, practices and activities to guide others and to establish a regular practice yourself. Mindfulness is gaining recognition as a resource to improve attention, the ability to deal with stress and anxiety as well as improving well-being.

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

This is an interactive course covering theory, activities and practices. Participants get the opportunity to guide classes for first-hand experience. The course is over 2 days. If you have any questions call or text; 021 238 7799

TOOLS & RESOURCES
The course includes printed lesson plans, practices and scripts, a Facilitator’s Manual as well as a Mindfulness Workbook.

“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 – Facilitating Mindfulness
Questions and Answers, feedback/personal Enquiry into your own experience

This 2 day intensive 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 2 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 share these techniques with everyone; children and adults.

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 practices to help others improve focus, mental resilience and 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

Rita Riccola

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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