Beginners Mindfulness

This is an introduction to Mindfulness for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes student worksheets and teaching slides.

The resource is intended to introduce students to mindfulness, including:

• An introduction to mindfulness
• Mindfulness practice
• Guided meditations (transcripts available)
• Breathing techniques
• Avoidance
• Flight, fright or freeze
• Practising acceptance
• Health benefits of mindfulness
• Thoughts are not facts
• Taking care of yourself
• Course evaluation

Topics include:

• The automatic pilot
• Present-moment focus
• Doing everyday activities mindfully
• Ways to reduce stress
• Facing challenges
• Mental health
• Happier life
• Avoiding negative thinking and judgement
• Practising mindfulness techniques
• Finding focus
• Time for ‘technology-free’
• Life balance

Can this resource be used online?
This resource is designed to be used in person. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. These worksheets are best printed, although teachers can use also them for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.

What additional materials are needed?
None, all of the components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets, teaching slides and guided meditation transcripts.

Student Worksheets: 122 Pages
Teaching Slides: 139