Practical, Youth Inspired, Mindfulness and Stress Relief Activities

Shoshana Phoenixx

Training Description

This training will teach training attendees how to perform multiple mindfulness and stress relief activities that draw on youth’s strengths, cultures and experiences. Ways to integrate these activities into their day-to-day routines will also be discussed using journals, smart phones and/or tablets. These activities can often be taught initially without the overlay or emphasis of their supportive capacities. Participants will be encouraged to playfully introduce a variety of vital stress relievers to assist a system involved youth they support and how they can develop their own independent or group-based practices to improve outcomes for system involved youth.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

· Explore their own stress experiences and coping styles and support the youth they support in identifying theirs;