Mindfulness for Teenagers (13 - 16 Years Old) - ONLINE

This 5-week programme is designed to teach mindfulness and learn the tools that they can use when under pressure. Each class includes evidence-based secular mindfulness practices, mind-body connection practices, dynamic mindful movements, non-violent communication techniques, inquiries, art, mindfulness-based activities and games as well as individual and group discussions. The attention training will enable students to see where their attention is and to learn how to direct their attention to where they want it to be. Through the inquiries and reflections, students will learn the nature of their thoughts, thought processes and how attention can help to deal with the anxiety within them. This will help students recognize the voice of negative self-talk and move toward conscious choice-making to work with it. The program will also help teens learn how to connect with others and grow compassion within themselves as well as for others.

Benefits:

This program for teens will enhance concentration and focus, reduce stress and anxiety, develop physical and emotional awareness and promote mental wellbeing.

Mindfulness practice is proven to produce following benefits for teens:

• Supports “readiness to learn”
• Promotes academic performance
• Strengthens attention and Self-Calming
• Reduces anxiety before examinations
• Promotes self-reflection and self-calming
• Improves classroom participation by supporting impulse control
• Provides tools to reduce stress
• Enhances social and emotional learning (SEL)
• Fosters pro-social behaviours and healthy relationships
• Supports mental wellbeing

Schedule of classes:

1. Saturday 31st August 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm (Singapore / HK time)
2. Saturday 7th September 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm (Singapore / HK time)
3. Saturday 14th September 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm (Singapore / HK time)
4. Saturday 21st September 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm (Singapore / HK time)
5. Saturday 28th September 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm (Singapore / HK time)

Participants will receive:

• Mindfulnes Workbook
• MP3 files for practice
• Awareness Space app

Your Facilitator - Hernie Khames-Martin

Certified Mindfulness Teacher (CMT-P) Psychotherapist & Professional Counsellor

Hernie is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher, an artist and an educator who has a background in counselling. She has led a varied career from  working in the interior architectural industry to art education. Hernie has exhibited in many countries. Her love of art has evolved into a need for creating, learning and teaching art. She has earned a Masters in  Visual Art and Master in Counselling that has paved her way for her role as a Mindfulness Coach. She also specialises in the area of Special Education. Her formative years in  education and travel around the world fulfilled that yearning for  creating, but it also took her away from the grounding of her home and  community. The transitory stays in different places focused her on  minfulness as a means of bringing her back to “self-care” in the stress  of new places and new countries. She has been practising mindfulness  since 2012 and firmly believes that mindfulness can enhance one’s  well-being as it has hers. Hernie’s vocation has driven her to combine  mindfulness with creative arts and activities. She believes that  expressing one self in art, non-judgmentally, entices an individual to  relax and create with joy. She believes mindfulness can help a person  and enable them to feel more anchored and attuned with the body,  emotions and thoughts. Through her experience, Hernie feels empowered to  share her passion with others through the lens of Creativity and  Mindfulness.

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Hernie is certified to instruct the Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) program.