Mindfulness: Practices and Games for Resilience and Stamina, Created for Providers and Parents
Wed, Dec 11
|Fred Finch -Training Center
“Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person – mind, body, intelligence and creativity.” -Viola Spolin
Time & Location
Dec 11, 2019, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Fred Finch -Training Center, 3800 Coolidge Ave, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
About the Event
Fresh! “Lev” White
Training Description
Mindfulness practice allows us to be fully present with awareness of our thoughts and feelings in each moment. When we learn to do so with compassion, it allows us to be more strategic with our response to any situation. In community, this means more opportunity for connection and less micro- and macroaggressions. Mindful play helps to build resilience, creativity, fortitude and connection in community for activists, therapists, social workers, and youth! Being mindful increases our ability to recover from stress, avoid being reactionary, and ultimately be more present and productive in service of your clients and team. Playfulness helps us to remember that at the core, we all want to be happy! This workshop will include mindful practice/meditation, and several accessibly physical games to help relieve stress, build community, and increase mental functioning.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Gain skills to increase the speed at which we become aware of our thoughts and feelings
- Experience more ease and clarity through movement
- Develop go-to tactics for responding to stress and trauma
- Build broader and perhaps deeper connection within ourselves and between us and others
Agenda
9:00 - 9:30 Introductions, Review goals, Create agreements
9:30 - 9:45 Introduction to Mindfulness, it’s goal and meaning
9:45 - 10:05 First Practice
10:05 - 10:35 'Who’s in the Room?
10:35 - 10:40 Reflections
10:40 - 11:00 Breathe
• Alternative breath practices
11:00 - 11:20 Mindful Movement (I love my neighbor)
11:20 - 12:00 Movement and Centering
• Mindful Counting
• Walking – feel
• Music- Touching heart – feel
12:00 - 12:45 Presentation/talk on: Choice + Large group exercise
• Practice What do I choose for me/What do I want to commit to?
• Small group excercise
12:45 - 1:00 Evaluation and Q&A
This course meets the qualifications for (4) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.