Life Skills Professional Development

Imagine an academic year where students and educators alike grow, learn more about themselves and others, integrating mindful activities seamlessly throughout the school day. 

Imagine a classroom that is regulated, calm and present. 
Everything you need in one product. 
When practiced regularly, witness improved behavior outcomes, social skills, and overall social-emotional development of students.
We know you don’t want to have to learn another initiative.
We know you want something that works.
We know you don’t have a lot of time to spare.
Believe me, working in schools the past 17 years has taught me that educators need proven techniques that they can use simply.
We have your back and we understand the pressures of time, testing, busyness, distraction, and stress!
If you can do a little each day for yourself and your class, you will see the shift happen.

What does the shift look like?
It's returning to focus with less drama and emotional outbursts.
It’s putting a pause between impulse and action...in other words, self-control.
It’s freeing up your time from behavior management to connect with students.
It's easier transitions.
It’s learning along with your students, growing together.
It's your students feeling your love and presence.

How to Integrate Mindfulness into the K-5 Classroom is a comprehensive and practical mindfulness resource written specifically for children in grades K-5 and their teachers. Explore how mindfulness can improve self-regulation, self-awareness, autonomy, and social awareness in the classroom. Blended with proven research and best practices, this manual contains tools enabling teachers and students to build key skills like focus, compassion, and self-acceptance through mindfulness. 

Reduce Stress and Anxiety in the Classroom

Research has shown positive outcomes when we practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is proven to reduce stress and anxiety in both teachers and students alike. In the classroom, mindfulness promotes calmer students and improves both social-emotional and academic learning. 

Teachers using our resources have reported better class management and happier students! Students will be given the tools to develop their own mindfulness practice, empowering their development and relationship with themselves and others. Commit to practice mindful moments throughout the school year and watch your students grow.

Learning and Teaching Mindfulness

Developing a mindfulness practice takes time. With the proper resources, such as this manual, teachers can develop their own practice while learning how to teach mindfulness to children. This resource gives you the ability to build a mindfulness culture, right in the classroom, along with the students!

In this manual, we cover:

• What is mindfulness
• How to establish your own mindfulness practice
• How to integrate mindfulness into the K-5 classroom
• A method for developing your daily practice and extend this practice to your students
• How to teach mindfulness activities in a safe, engaging and compassionate way
• Use of the gradual release of responsibility
• 18 mindfulness activities
• Tips and good times for each activity

Teachers, school counselors, specialists, and social workers can use this resource as part of their daily classroom lessons and/or social-emotional curriculum. Learn eighteen mindfulness activities that can be easily integrated into your school day–as brain breaks, transitional activities, or daily lessons. Use our printable mindfulness yoga cards to practice activities at any time, at any place!

What’s included:

• What is mindfulness and how to teach mindfulness
• 18 mindfulness activities with instructions, written for kids (K-5)
• 6 mindfulness cards
• 5 mindfulness planners and worksheets perfect for classroom and daily practice planning
• 2 mindfulness activity posters
• 1 worksheet

How to Integrate Mindfulness into the K-5 Classroom is a 44-page PDF made for educators helping contextualize the use of 18 mindfulness activities in the classroom. You can view this PDF on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.

Want to teach this content to other educators?
If you want to present this as professional development or share with other educators, you must complete the 4-hour private online training to become certified to share this. Schools agree to pay the licensing fee to use the content. Discounts are available for schools on a case by case basis. Please contact us for more information. 

Licensing Pricing
License is good for educators teaching their students and does not cover educators training other educators. Educators are required to take our training course online as stated above.

• Individual license: $175 (sale $99)
• 2-5 educators: $100/person (sale $75/each)
• 5-10 educators:  $80/person (sale $60/each)
• 11-20 educators: $65/person (sale $50/each)
• 21-50 educators: $55/person (sale $40/each)

Training to certify to teach to other educators, $450, including 4-hour private training, and the schools sign a licensing and fee agreement base on the above licensing fee structure.

Excited about the content but need extra support?
Let us help you go through the handout and familiarize yourself with each activity.

Let’s talk about your school and your plans and your students to make this work for YOU!

The private training is perfect for those looking to gain these skills starting from any point! Beginners or regular practitioners alike, join us and help roll out your most mindful year yet.

Private 4-hour online training with the author AND license to content $450 (valued at $700)

Schedule 2x 2-hour calls with Lara to go over the process, methodology, and activities and ask questions. Receive the recordings.

This bundle includes a teacher manual with 18 mindfulness activities to use in the school day OR with families in the home! It also comes with a 30 minute video of founder, Lara Hochiser, explaining how to integrate mindfulness, and how to do the 6 activities that are included within the 18 of the manual.

37-Page document guiding you through yoga and mindfulness educations in schools

In this manual learn:

• Kinds of schools and considerations for

each including:

• Pay

• Types of employment

• Pros and cons

• Secularism

• Kinds of business models schools work

with

• Outside vendor

• Part-time

• Full-time employee

• Other programming options besides

teaching yoga/mindfulness classes to

children

• PD

• Workshops

• Assemblies

• Grade meetings

• Parent meetings/culmination

projects

• Subbing // stepping in on a longer-term

basis

• Policies

• Communications do's and don’ts

• Dealing with space, staff, and stuff

• Formats for yoga in schools

• Formats for mindfulness in schools

• Space and sound issues

• Content Considerations

• Curriculum Development

• Yoga and Mindfulness

• Best Practice Overview

• Insurance -- costs and brands

• Proposals

• Formal

• Informal

• Contact Info

• How much do I charge?

You will have the opportunity to

• Consider which type of school is the best fit

• Consider which type of position you might want

• Plan a proposal and practice it with a partner or small group

• Decide on a blog, newsletter, or other forms of communication you would like to use

• Create your own flyer/programming white page

This is a two page clinical (and editable) template which explores the function of an individuals behaviour. This is a formulated and reflective exercise for teachers, parents, allied health staff and other individuals who may be supporting someone with challenging and/or complex behavioural issues. .

The first page is a template of questions to ask and reflect on to help draw out the necessary information to obtain what the potential function (or underlying reasons) behind a behaviour may be, and the second page is a "how to" document explaining how to utilize the first page template and providing examples.

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Behaviour and Feelings Workbook

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Emotions & Self Care Workbook

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SOCIAL SKILLS, PUBERTY, PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOURS, RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY

Puberty Lesson and Activity Book

Appropriate V's Appropriate Things to Say

Learning about Bodies and Puberty Workbook

Protective Behaviours, Relationships and Puberty Special Game

Stranger Danger Education

Road Safety Social Story

Fire Safety Social Story

Safety In The Community Activity and Educative Book

AUTISM, SOCIAL STORIES & ACTIVITIES

How My Engine Runs Social Story

Teaching Children about Personal Space

Noises Hurt My Ears - Social Story - Sensory Defensiveness

When a loved one dies - grief and loss social story

Understanding Divorce Social Story

Being Nice and Making Friends Social Story

Doing a Poo on the Toilet Social Story

SPECIFIC TEACHING AND COUNSELLING RESOURCES

Supporting Students to Gain Insight through Reflection

Supervision and Reflective Practice Templates

Increasing a Child's Attention Span

Behavioural Strategies for Fostering Self Esteem

Anxious Children - Behavioural Strategies

Children with Attachment and Abandonment Issues: Behavioural Strategies

Recognising Defences in Children

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Anger Management Plan

Anger Management Activity Worksheets

Anger Management Traffic Lights Activity

My Anger Management Workbook

BEHAVIOUR ASSESSMENT AND BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT PLANS

Managing Aggressive Behaviours and Outbursts

Understanding Behavioural Triggers

Behaviour Reward Chart - Girls (editable)

Behaviour Reward Chart - Boys (editable)

Behaviour Thermometer - Incident Prevention and Response Plan (editable)

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The majority of schools continue to emphasize teaching a set of fundamental skills that are out of step with the demands of contemporary society. Learning content alone is insufficient, even if students must gain information. Nowadays, being able to find, assess, and apply information efficiently has become more important than simply being able to recall and regurgitate information.

For today's pupils to succeed in the information era, they must be well prepared. They are joining a workforce that is more mobile and more qualified than ever before, entering a busy, competitive, uncertain world, and constructing careers that encompass a variety of occupations, positions, and skill sets—some of which haven't even been created yet.

This ebook describes in plain terms what the 21st century skills are, and how can they be practically applied in the modern classroom. There are also some suggested activities at the end with practical examples and suggested apps.