Professional Development Options
Head and Heart Mindfulness deliver on-site teacher professional development (TPD), online TPD training for schools and preschools via our Head and Heart Mindfulness Online Training Portal and TPD events via Zoom.
All training sessions provide information and practical tools based on mindfulness, meditation, heartfulness and key positive psychology practises. The aim of our training is to enable participants to support the mental health and wellbeing of the children in their care and themselves whilst creating supportive, quality learning and workplace environments.
During a professional development session you will learn about mindfulness, meditation and heartfulness and their benefits, tools to integrate mindfulness into your daily classroom practise, how to plan and teach a mindfulness lesson, common mental health concerns in school communities and methods to improve teacher wellbeing and productivity at work.
Sessions can run from 1 – 5 hours depending on the depth of knowledge and skills that you would like your staff to learn.
The most popular training option during 2020 was our 3.5hr Mindfulness in Education TPD delivered via our online learning portal. We currently have this course open and it will run for the duration of Semester 1, 2021. We offer individual teacher sign up via our online shop and also have whole school/service discounted packages available - visit the contact us page to enquire about this.
In 2021, as well as still delivering our online learning option, we are being invited back into schools to deliver face to face training options. We can work closely with your school to devise a specific training that addresses your Strategic Directions and the targeted needs of your students and/or staff.
*Please note that personal knowledge and practise of mindfulness is essential for you to be an effective and understanding teacher of mindfulness in your classroom.
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“Thank you! I really enjoyed this course and got lots out of it. I am looking forward to continuing my own mindfulness habits and assisting the students in my class to do the same.”
-Emily, Mindfulness in Education Online Course Participant
“Every aspect of the course brought "ah ha" moments. It is presented clearly and with content easy to understand, the practical keys are simple to incorporate into everyday life and moments. With Kylie and Brooke having backgrounds in teaching, their knowledge and understanding of a classroom and the behaviours/issues children face, shone through which only strengthens the importance of Mindfulness, Meditation and Heartfulness in our professional and personal life.”
-Kara, Mindfulness in Education Online Course Participant
“Head and Heart Mindfulness - Mindfulness in Education online training has been an extremely useful learning experience. Not only has it given me more effective strategies to help my students to be calmer, in the moment and more self-aware, but it has also helped me to build in these areas as well. I am able to self-reflect effectively and implement strategies to cope with change or pressures in a more productive and calm manner.
Racquel, Mindfulness in Education Online Course Participant
“Under the current stressful climate of living through Covid-19, I found this course to be a live-saver. As the Director of a small rural community based Preschool, I found myself in the very stressful position overnight of having to support my extremely anxious staff, families and vulnerable children. This course has provided me with strategies that I can use with adults and children to benefit their mental health. It has also reminded me to take care of myself.
Jenny, Mindfulness in Education Online Course Participant
