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Young people are experiencing stress just as much as all of us grownups... Dahh!
Let's find some fun ways together to gift them mindful techniques to manage the inner storms and the whirlpools of life.

Now more than ever, in our social media era, news blasting culture, “everything creates a trauma” attitude, post-COVID, whatever else, giving our children tools to deal with it all is so important.

Mindfulness techniques can provide children and teens with helpful strategies to deal with a variety of mental health issues and life challenges they face such as depression, anxiety, bullying, eating disorders, trauma, and self-esteem problems.

With their relatively short life experience, children and teens lack the skills to put life events, discomforts, disagreements and other challenges in perspective.

It is hard for them to see how in a day/week/month/year time this may not seem as significant and even good may come out of it.

As grownups, we have learnt that some things can be fixed with the right effort, and other things just need time to heal or come back into order... but those same events, may make a young person feel like it's "the end of the world" and all hope is lost. This can lead to depression, anxiety, and even suicide.

Mindfulness can help a lot in creating the distance necessary from our thoughts and emotions to be able to process events in a healthier way.

We are obsessive thinkers (60,000 thoughts a day on average) and we get attached and fully identify with every thought and feeling that arises inside of us.

Even though those thoughts and feelings are very impermanent, and they move and change rapidly, without mindfulness skills we are totally consumed by them, many times to a point where we may feel helpless.

Being able to observe our thoughts and feelings and identify them, gives us the power to be free of them and even the power to change them at times.

Knowledge is power. When we don't know our inner world we are controlled by everything that arises and falls within it. When we are more familiar with it, we can more easily surf its waves.

Also, if we don't learn how to deal with stress in a healthy way, we end up doing it in unhealthy ways such as substance abuse or other harmful or self-harming activities.

Mindfulness is a simple tool to awaken the wisdom that already exists inside of you. It is a way for you to become your own best friend and advisor.

Why Practice Mindfulness:

1. Handle everyday stress

2. Handle anxiety before taking an exam at school, a performance, or a social interaction

3. Enjoy your daily activities more, such as the bus ride or walking the dog

4. Better handle arguments with parents and friends

5. Concentrate more while studying or in class

6. Handle repetitive negative thoughts such as memories, worries, and regrets

7. Transform negative and self-harming thoughts about oneself

8. Improve your relationship with friends, family and significant others

9. Handle difficult moods such as depression and anxiety

To summarize though, Mindfulness is about two things:

1. Dealing better with stress, and

2. Enjoying life more.

We often get caught up in trying to do as much as we can, as well as we can, to please as many people as we can, that we don't take time to enjoy anything. We don't take enough time to listen to ourselves and to love ourselves. Mindfulness helps to do that.

Mindfulness is sometimes described as a bird with two wings: Awareness and Compassion. The practice needs both wings to take flight. Whenever stress or difficulties arise, awareness will allow you to understand what is happening and why. Compassion will allow you to relate to the situation with kindness. Only with both you will arrive at a resolution and to a place of peace.

There are many ways to be mindful… We can be mindful of our body and all of the sensations in it, we can be more aware through our 5 senses, we can watch our thoughts and learn to direct them to better places, we can observe our feelings rather than drown in them.

Different approaches and techniques are suitable for different age groups and different people. This class focuses more on the younger children.

Let’s get right into it here and now!