Starting the School Year With Mindfulness

Culver City Middle School PTSA is excited to present:

A FREE evening of Mindfulness for parents and students

Come Learn Mindfulness Techniques and Practices

This session focuses on skills that help students and parents alike to start the school year off mindfully, including self-regulation practices and techniques for mindful communication.

This program is already being offered in CCUSD at El Marino and Lin Howe, we are excited to bring it to the Middle School

Dinner will be provided starting at 6 PM. Seminar begins at 6:30.

Free Child Care Available

PLEASE RSVP by Sunday, Oct 1st

This session is open to all parents who want to come and learn more about secular mindfulness and practice different mindfulness techniques.

• Are your children anxious about school, homework, tests, and sports?
• Are they stressed and unable to focus or do they judge themselves too harshly?
• Is it challenging for them to deal with the ups and downs of everyday life?

Secular mindfulness education is growing exponentially in education as current neuroscience supports its efficacy. Secular mindfulness in schools is seen as part of SEL (social emotional learning) that can help to create success and well-being for students in and beyond the classroom.

Mindfulness is the ability to focus in a particular way: in the present moment, with openness and curiosity.

Benefits of mindfulness include:

(Supported by thirty years of research and current neuroscience)

• Better focus and concentration

• Decreased stress and anxiety

• Improved impulse controls

• Increased empathy and understanding of others

• Increased sense of calm

• Increased self-control and self-regulation

Mindfulness educator Megan Hook has over twelve years of classroom teaching experience as a professional Teaching Artist, and over twenty years of mindfulness and meditation experience. She teaches mindfulness in schools and facilitates Professional Development in secular mindfulness for stakeholders in education.

http://www.mindfulnessmattersinschools.com/