MLE/CCE: Resources for Now

Web-based app with exercises that are easy to use in kindergarten, school and family settings or individually.

Four types of exercises are available for children, youngsters and grown-ups: stillness, peaceful touch, contemplative movement and reflection

Audio files, written excercises, videos and a stillness diary

Optional for reflection exercises: a talking stick.

Trustees and members of Mindfulness Scotland have produced audio Mindfulness practices to support you during the Covid-19 pandemic, e.g. regarding gratitude and appreciation or dealing with difficult emotions.

These can be found under the link above. Further audio resources can also be found on the respective website. 

Audio files.

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We have been running daily sits (Monday-Friday) at 11am, and 7.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

• The morning sessions are for anyone. Whether they are completely new to mindfulness or already have experience of mindfulness practice, these sits offer a chance to have a daily pause, to refocus on how we can best take care of ourselves and, in turn, of others. Children are welcome to attend but must be accompanied by an adult for the 11am slots. 
• The 7.30pm slots are for adults and older young people who have experience of mindfulness and are comfortable with longer practices and periods of silence.

Note: time zone is GMT+1.

This is a course to help people to practice mindfulness with children. It includes ten guided mindfulness practices.

This is for adults who would like to practice with children. The mindfulness practices here are aimed at 7-12 year olds with variations offered for younger/older people.

'Fowley?s Wings' and 'The Switch Watch' on audio files, designed for families with children aged 5+ to share and use as a stimulus for discussion and activities at home, coupled with two ?Calm Me times?, audio files taking children and their families through short mindfulness practice linked to the stories.

Both aim to enable peace, calm and harmony at home and are part of the Jigsaw Families 6-session programme.

10-15 minutes (each story) with optional follow-up activities.

4-5 minutes (each 'Calm Me').

The Jigsaw 3-11 ?Recovery? takes account of government guidance alongside Jigsaw?s concern for emotional and mental health. This package is free to schools (all schools not just those using Jigsaw Programmes) and is Jigsaw?s contribution to supporting teachers and children at this difficult time.

The 'Recovery' Package comprises the following:

• This Introduction from Jan Lever, the Creator and CEO of Jigsaw PSHE
• A free PDF book for children (free to distribute to your children under a Creative Commons licence)
• A mapping document showing which Jigsaw 3-11 lessons could offer support for specific topics related to returning to school
• Separate packs for KS1 and KS2, each including: an assembly acknowledging the Covid situation, drawing out the positive themes from it e.g. community spirit, helping others, Colonel Tom, NHS, etc. and supporting British Values and togetherness; lesson plans focussing on topics like belonging and feeling safe or gratitude and appreciation.

The Jigsaw 11-16 ?Recovery Package? takes account of government guidance alongside Jigsaw?s concern for emotional and mental health. The Covid 19 crisis has tuned so much upside down that Jigsaw is contributing to bringing students back to school safely by offering this Recovery Package FREE to all schools.

The Recovery Package comprises:

1. Jigsaw REST (Resilience and Engagement Scale and Toolkit) which includes: Introduction, Jigsaw Resilience Scale to measure wellbeing and resilience against 10 descriptors, Strategies to build resilience relating to each of the 10 descriptors, x6 short PowerPoints with notes and activities, Resilience Journal, Map showing which lessons in Jigsaw PSHE would best support the development of each descriptor. Jigsaw REST has been adapted to be suitable for all year groups and for home-learning, self-study. Many schools are using the REST Scale as a screening tool to assess students? wellbeing as they return to school, informing appropriate interventions and helping to monitor progress.
2. Learning Charter, editable to enable you to add extra ?rules? and ?responsibilities? which may be necessary during the return to school e.g. social distancing.
3. Lessons (suitable for self-study as well as in-school learning and adaptable for different ages).

Being Alive and Knowing It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNojLd_Jbh8

Beditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=T5ut2NYdAEQ

Playing Attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgXZW6Xqokw

How to be in contact with yourself, how to regulate your feelings, emotions, thoughts, how joint attention to ourselves, others and society can influence our own well-being and well-being of others has been a research focus of the HAND IN HAND project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRm5dtsKwBs) for the past three years.

Among other activities we have also used a set of eight exercises for which positive outcomes have been evident in practice and research. We would like to invite you to try them out and see how they feel to you especially in the challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

To be able to see whether the exercises are helpful and if they can be used in this way, we would like to ask you to provide feedback in the form of an online questionnaire (10 minutes) before (and after) doing the exercises. Even though we would be extremely grateful for your feedback you are free to use the exercises without having to fill out the questionnaire (https://www.1ka.si/a/272522).

Six different meditations for children as part of the knowledge database provided by AVE (Institut für Achtsamkeit, Verbundenheit und Engagement).

You can also check further resources for families during Corrona times, e.g. games to play at home or meditations for parents (https://ave-institut.de/corona-unterstuetzung-fuer-familien/).

Written descriptions (meditations).

Optional for glitter meditation: empty jar and some glitter.

A collection of shorter (5-10 minutes) and middle (10-20 minutes) meditation practices in form of audio files and written descriptions (PDF) for the open public, organized in 4 clearly structured sections (including one section for children).

MindWell Education: Teaching Life Coping Skills with Kevin Hawkins and Amy Burke.

The interview includes short mindfulness activities for students as well as some theory about how mindfulness helps (and for teachers to teach their students!).

A resource page offered by the MoMento program containing

• Six short practices (5 minutes each) for primary school students.
• Three short practices (10 minutes each) specifically for teachers and other school staff.

The activities in this kit are based on social and emotional learning (SEL) and address the skills young people need to recognize and manage emotions, develop care and concern for others, make responsible decisions and handle challenging situations constructively and ethically.