Support your anxious students with their own workbook on a topic of personal challenge
The standalone subjects let students work independently, whilst freeing up your Pastoral Support Team for other 1:1 work
Since Covid, many of our students have been showing signs of separation and challenge
Many find social situations difficult. They've become distanced from those around them. New challenges, and change is hard for them to process and work through. When they're feeling overloaded, and struggling with things, this can steer them toward a range of unhealthy solutions, such as self harm, substances, or disruptive behaviours. The bottom line is they may have become unhappy and disallusioned. You may know students who've 'dropped the ball' on self-care or who are showing signs of distress, and confusion.
How can you help them further, without tying up your precious Well-Being, Mental Health or Pastoral Team?
What you need is a way to support them with the situation THEY are facing. Good Pastoral Care needs tailored intervention.
Seeing our students struggle day-to-day is a worry for all concerned
You can't expect and one member of your Support Staff to be expert in different aspects of Personal Development and Behaviour Change.
Those students who take up the majority of your Support Staff's attention are often struggling with a range of challenges.
The good news is that many of the problems they may come to you with, can be helped with similar approaches that strip back the problem and help students work through their options.
These workbooks offer a number of ways to help you support your students,
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The benefit of Ready-Done Workbooks is that they are 'ready-to-go' right away to help you help your students with the tailored support they need
There are 8 workbooks in Mindfulness for Schools series.
5 of the series titles are focussed on common challenges facing our young people today.Â
3 are Popular Mindful topics, each exploring their subject in greater depth.
There are a number of versatile ways you can use your Ready to Go Workbooks
- give them out to students as needed, for independent use. This will enable students to work by themselves. They can come back to you or other staff for support, at set times as they go through their workbook
- alternatively, use the separate workbooks as the basis of small group work, gathering a selection of students together to look at a topic in more detail
- make the workbooks available to your PHSE tutors with free reign to use them in class as topics for discussion or group work
- develop a series of 1:1 interventions around a specific topic for individual students, working together on exercises to explore ideas and responses
MINDFULNESS FOR SCHOOLS SERIES
There are 8 TOPIC workbooks to support your work with your students:
Mindfulness
Mindfulness
Tapping
Dealing with Anger
Coping with Change
Guilt and Forgiveness
Handling Pain
Habits
Each workbook includes exercises and worksheets.
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At HMP we've had success making these available on request. Our learners say they've found them helpful in sharing new ways of thinking about particular challenges.
Those workbooks have now been specially adapted for you to use in School. This Series of Mindfulness workbooks were first written to support Prisoners at a B Category HMP establishment in East England. They have been adapted for use in Schools. The original Mindfulness workbook is still part of our HMP Education Offering and has positive feedback from both Prisoners and Governors.
By using Mindful approaches alongside the challenges your students are experiencing, you’re teaching your young people life-long ways to manage any feelings of overload.
They’ll get to practice safe and successful ways to manage their thoughts and behaviour in your safe and supported environment.
It will give them confidence in how to think about things, and to choose better ways of handling their anxiety.
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My intention through this series is to help you develop your students’ confidence in managing their stress levels
In the series, there are individual workbooks on Mindfulness, Meditation and Tapping, which can each be used as a solid solution to any situation. Alongside these titles, you’ll find 5 other workbooks on separate topics. Written with your students in mind, they include an overview, exercises and worksheets to prompt thinking and suggestions on alternative ways to look at challenging issues
"It is so refreshing to find a course which is easy to follow, simple to engage with and complete, and which gives some excellent hints and tips on how relatively small changes can help to develop a much more positive, relaxed and stress-free perspective on an individual's life and approach to everyday activities. The language used is appropriate and easy to understand for students and staff alike, and the content encourages users to not only consider personal circumstances, but also how to develop and improve senses and feelings with simple everyday activities and techniques."
Jugjit Chima
Head of Training, The Exams Office
"This course is amazing from start to finish. All I wanted to do was read and see what was said and then go to the next part to see what was next and learn some more. It kept me interested from the beginning. The content was plentiful without being boring or repetitive. I loved the fact that you could press complete, which gives a real sense of satisfaction and that also meant you could come back to the course at any time and know where you were at – very useful. I listened to the mindfulness recordings and watched the videos and felt completely relaxed and excited to listen to more and move on with the course. I have to say this exceeded my expectations and was a professional, warm, encouraging, fascinating and interesting course and I don’t doubt that it will be a huge success "
Alison Gold
Examinations Officer and Data Manager, Brampton College, London
"The intent of courses developed in this style was to advance a resident’s knowledge through information, practical exercises and questions, using learning and reflection to help the resident plan for making positive changes in their future. They have been approved by our Quality Team and showcased in other establishments due to their excellence. Courses are often requested by Prison Offender Managers in order for a resident to progress on their sentence"
Zenildo Casonecca
Education Manager, People Plus, HMP Etablishment
"With Geraldine’s expert guidance and skills, we now have a new range of education which is directly impacting people’s life’s in a hugely positive manner. Courses like mindfulness are facilitating learners to cope with their current predicament and gives them strategies to help reduce stress and anxiety. Feedback received is invariably positive and shows that Geraldine’s courses can help everyone, no matter what situation you find yourself in. Thank you, you have made a difference! "
Pete Donovan
Deputy Education Manager, People Plus, HMP Norwich
Mindfulness in School Series
Single Payment
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8 Standalone Workbooks
Mindfulness
Meditation
Tapping
Coping with Change
Dealing with Anger
Habits
Handling Pain
Guilt and Forgiveness
Additional mp3 audio recordings for extra support and 1:1 sessions
You're already the expert - you know your students
You’re already the expert in knowing your students.
With the Mindfulness in Schools Series, you have prepared exercises to share with your students, ready-to-go.
It gets you Mindful-Ready to help your young people when they come to you for support.
Hand them out to those students who need them, or use them as wider year group based discussion topics to help everyone take control of their thinking.