56. Mindfulness with Teens

Tess Connolly LCSW talks with Mark Stefanski a certified mindfulness instructor and Georgia Brown a teenager who has been practicing mindfulness for two years about mindfulness with tweens and teens. They discuss what mindfulness is and the benefits of practicing mindfulness with our tweens and teens. 

• Mark opens the episode with an experiential exercise with us.
• Tess and Georgia talk about how they felt after taking part in the exercise.
• Mark and Georgia introduce themselves and share with us background knowledge of who they are and what they do and how they got into mindfulness.
• Mark talks about the time that he started bringing mindfulness into schools and how he did this at the beginning.
• Georgia talks about the benefits that she received from joining the mindfulness community.  
• Mark talks about the benefits of practicing mindfulness in a community and how they learn from their peers when practising in a group.
• Mark tells us about mindfulness and what it is and how it will benefit tweens and teens and also how we get our tweens and teens to engage in the practice. 
• Georgia gives some examples of how she has used mindfulness in her life and how it has helped her. 
• Tess, Mark and Georgia talk about practicing mindfulness in person and online and what the benefits are by doing it either way.
• Mark and Tess give a bit of knowledge of where you can go if you are interested in finding more out about mindfulness and also where we can find resources to learn more on the practice. 
• Mark shares some knowledge about how we can start to plant seeds to our tweens and teens and one of the most important things is to model mindfulness. 
• Mark talks about how practicing mindfulness has been proven to help tweens and teens manage stress.
• Georgia also shares how letting your child come to their own decision about practicing mindfulness is the most effective way and by the adults around them modelling the practice and letting your child come to it if they want to.
• Mark finishes the interview with an experiential exercise of love and kindness.

Follow this link to find out Marks mindfulness group - Teen Mindfulness Circle flyer-spring2020.pdf

For some resources for mindfulness follow this link - Mindfulness Resources for Teens and Young Adults.public.docx.pdf

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