Struggling with Challenging Students?
Supporting students with individual challenges can take a toll on your time, energy, and resources.Â
A small group often demands the most attention from your pastoral and wellbeing team
Yet meaningful progress can feel out of reach.
You’ve tried everything:
- One-to-one plans to offer support.
You’ve asked your colleagues to create 1:1 plans to help them build individual student relationships - Interventions from already overstretched specialist staff.
You’ve used teams of hard-pressed specialist staff to work with these students as different situations have come up - Endless conversations with parents and teams.
You’ve had lengthy conversations with your teams and with parents to come up with appropriate responses to behaviour challenges
But the underlying issues persist, leaving everyone—students, staff, and parents—frustrated.
Although you've focussed all your specialist resources on them, some of their personal issues remain deep set and you haven’t been able, yet, to dig into what’s behind the patterns you see them showing in school.
You’ve been using a single approach to remedy each separate problem.
That’s rather like putting a plaster on a wound and hoping it will heal once it’s out of sight. It’s like thinking, if you can’t see the problem (the behaviour) then everything must be sorted, right?!
But that hasn't worked, so how can you help them look at their pain?
If change hasn’t come about by your excellent 1:1 work what do you try next?
- How can you help these students to peel back the layers they’ve used to cover over the hurt that’s causing them to rebel or refuse school?
- How do you help them dig down into the particular challenge that’s giving them so much pain and makes them step back from school life?
- How can you give them a way to look at some things that might be worrying them, without the overwhelm of a 1:1 or group setting and without any teacher-directed influence that might be taken the wrong way?
The solution is the Mindfulness in Schools workbooks
A Fresh Approach to Student Wellbeing
It’s a series of 8 Mindfulness based workbooks.. Each standalone workbook is focussed on a separate topic of personal challenge and comes with mp3 mindfulness recordings
Tested within an HMP environment, they are the ideal way to support your vulnerable or challenging students out of class by enabling them to look at different subjects, in their own time, away from staff intervention.
This gives them freedom to choose their own study time and decide how best to go through the content.
The 8 workbook topics are:
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness
- Tapping
- Dealing with Anger
- Coping with Change
- Guilt and Forgiveness
- Handling Pain
- Habits
3 of the workbooks are based on the popular mindful topics of Mindfulness, Meditation and Tapping. Each explores their subject in greater depth.
These Core Mindful Principles are included as tried and tested practical ways to help your students handle any difficult situation. 5 of the titles are focussed on common challenges facing our young people today.
Built on tried-and-tested methods, these workbooks give students the tools to:
- Reflect on their emotions.
- Develop coping strategies.
- Build confidence in managing their anxiety and behaviors.
Why This Works
Developed and tested in one of the most challenging environments — (an HMP establishment) —this Series of Mindfulness Workbooks has received outstanding feedback for its ability to encourage reflection and positive change in one of life's most challenging environments - Prison!.
Those workbooks have now been specially adapted to use in Schools.Â
The original Mindfulness workbook is still part of the HMP Education Offering and has positive feedback from both Prisoners and Governors.
"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
With Mindfulness in Schools, students take ownership of learning at their own pace, freeing your staff for other priorities.
Whether used independently, in small groups, or as part of PSHE lessons, these workbooks provide a flexible, ready-to-go solution.
ÂŁ497
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
Guarantee
I know that this Mindfulness in Schools Series can help your students work on their personal levels of anxiety. This will, in time show in shifts in their thinking and in their behaviour
It is impossible to say how long it may take to see any change in different students, but even so, I offer a 60-day “Do the Work” guarantee.
I ask that those working with your Students complete the relevant workbook with a number of different individuals to help you measure the value of the content. You will need to be  able to show both Pastoral Support and Students’  responses to all the exercises.
If, after sharing each workbook with a number of students, you have NO change in how the students feel about themselves, Â and can see no measurable change in behaviour in any student following the Mindfulness in Schools Series, then we will look at your application for a refund.
"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 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
Your Course Bonus'
Bonus resources to add to your course library!
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.
Your Pastoral Team will value the extra support the Series give them in providing an alternative way to support your most challenging students.
Let's Recap!
8 stand-alone Mindfulness Topic Workbooks. 3 on core mindfulness principles and 5 more workbooks on topical subjects:
- Mindfulness, Meditation, Tapping, Coping with Change, Dealing with Anger, Habits, Handling Pain, Guilt and Forgiveness
(valued at £399) - Each comes with exercises, and worksheets and mp3 audio recordings (valued at £399)
- 2 versions available to suit your sharing needs:
digital fillable version (valued at £299) - printable version to suit your sharing needs (valued at £399)
- Bonus 1 -Â
- Bonus 2 -Â
- Bonus 3 -Â
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That makes everything in your Mindfulness in School Series a ÂŁxxx value
Can you say how much it would SAVE YOUR budget, if you were able to release your Pastoral staff from a JUST ONE daily or weekly commitment? What’s the cost of one hour of your specialist staff?
And what of the value to the individual student in learning new ways to manage their feelings and work through any anxiety, with you in a supporting, but backseat role?
What might that mean to their sense of independence, knowing they have a choice in how to think, how to behave and how to BE?
In every case, your cost would be over ÂŁ1200 to cover the costs of just a few weeks support.
But why spend that when for just ÂŁ497 you have 8 workbooks that you can use year in and year out. Workbooks that will help your students work on their own and take a look under the covers at what comes up for them with different issues.
And you can set your own 1:1 sessions to follow up as suits  your less stretched timetable, providing a safe and supported environment for your discussions. With less time spent overseeing, there’s more time free for conversations.
Can you put a VALUE on helping JUST ONE dis-engaged student get back even a bit of their earlier enthusiasm for life and learn to manage the feelings that might be crushing them at the moment?
My intention for you, through this series is to help you free up your hard pressed pastoral staff
- You'll be able to give your challenging students a way to work through things that trouble them in an independent yet supported way
- Your students will begin to understand the thinking behind their behaviour
- They'll practice new ways to handling their feelings (which you can encourage)
- This can shift how they think about themselves
- and that in turn can improve how they behave around others
- and how they act in school
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Frequently Asked Questions
No! they don't. They can be used by any teacher in the classroom though you may want to use your specialist staff to guide conversations with your vulnerable students
Of course! Use them to introduce wider topics and to look more closely at the range of subjects covered in the series. Use the exercises as extra handouts to support your own lessons, or share them as extra support materials. You decide what works best for you
You know your individual students best and should decide that with them. Some may benefit from working on the exercises by themselves.Â
You may like to be with others as they go through tgheir workbooks, to be able to support them as thoughts come up.You are the specialists who work with your students regularly.Â
Please use your judgement in providing the best Pastoral Care alongside tThe Mindfulness In Schools Series. Â
My suggestions are for general guidance only.
Everyone who works through The Series will have a different response to the content.
No-one can guarantee personal responses to the material, so it is wise not to have set expectations, but to let students work through the exercises, with you on hand to encourage and guide them as needed.
"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
So now, what’ will you choose?
Will you carry on trying to tame the behaviour you see, or will you help students dig into the why behind it and help them find new ways to handle what’s hurting them?
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For £497, you’ll receive resources you can use year after year, saving time, staff hours, and frustration.
Imagine the impact of helping even one disengaged student regain their confidence and enthusiasm for learning.
Your Mindfulness in Schools Series is ready to go.
Our HMP Learners have been using them for a while now in one of the most challenges places of all – prison. If it’s helping some of them, what could it do for you and your students?
Are you ready to  find out the difference that Mindfulness can make?
Disclaimer
The Mindfulness in Schools Series takes no responsibility for any change in behaviour that may come from sharing these exercises with your students. For positive change to happen, you need to continue to work closely with your challenging students, supporting them with your Specialist Teams.