Mindfulness - Know It to Show It and Stretching Workout

* New Summer Camp starts Tuesday, 13th.
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* New class: Mindfulness Box - Art, Craft and Activities to Fill Your Calm-Down Kit    40 minutes     6-10 year olds *

Engage in mindfulness activities to help keep a balanced lifestyle while making a series of products to fill your box. Reflect on emotions and attitudes to learn coping skills and end with a mindful workout.

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* Although this class section has ended, I am looking to start a new version of mindfulness and creativity class in the near future.  Should you have any ideas or feedback, you're welcome to send me a message thanks!  I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing teaching this particular listed class.
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Our mindfulness classes will be once a week and will involve a routine sequence of activities.  This will encompass a variety of skills, foster qualities of good character and also importantly, provide opportunities for self-expression in various forms for a better mental health balance.

We'll begin with social and communicative opportunities in a relaxed atmosphere through discussions about experiences, how they perceived situations and relate them to emotions.  Next, we will focus on open-ended, open-minded thinking and problem-solving skills, through sharing and reflecting on how we would react and what the outcomes and consequences could be to a given scenario.  This will help develop a sense of self in relation to others.  We will consider attitudes and attributes like responsibility, honesty, empathy, and tolerance for example.  The closing will be to spend a few minutes stretching, breathing and visualizing, it could be a time to focus on certain senses like closing the eyes and listening to directions. 

Activities could include games, a form of visual communication like drawing or using colour, acting, slideshows or video-clips.  Depending on the activity, we could sometimes be sat at table level, be standing up, or on the floor.  When there is a physical movement like stretching or striking a pose, these are not specific yogic poses. 

No experience necessary.  Join in anytime, or tune-in to a weekly routine of active fun! 

Themes for week beginning of:
FEB 15: Gratitude - what is it and how we can show it
FEB 22: Zones - brainstorming coping ideas
MAR 1: Perspectives - cultural exposure, what we know and can learn
MAR 8: Dance Jam - create some dance steps from a prompt 
MAR 15: invent a new word for 'a pick-me-up' slogan
MAR 22: Colours - how it can affect a mood, how it can be used
NOTE - Week of MAR 29 has no lesson as it spans Good Friday to Easter Monday.
APR   5: Calming Strategies - visual cues cards
APR  12: Role-play - use props to show different emotions from prompt