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Mindfulness in Education Michigan School Social Work Conference October 2015 LISA COBB, LMSW LCOBB@RAVENNASCHOOLS.ORG STEPHANIE LATHROP, LMSW SLATHROP@MUSKEGONISD.ORG Todays Mindful Agenda o Introductions and Ice Breaker o Perception o

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Mindfulness in Education

Michigan School Social Work Conference

October 2015

LISA COBB, LMSW – LCOBB@RAVENNASCHOOLS.ORG STEPHANIE LATHROP, LMSW – SLATHROP@MUSKEGONISD.ORG

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  • Introductions and Ice Breaker
  • Perception
  • Mindfulness Principles
  • Mindfulness Practice
  • Mindfulness Power
  • Closing Activities
  • Wrap-up and Debriefing

Today’s Mindful Agenda

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Stress…everyone has it…

  • Emotional stressors
  • Family stressors
  • Social stressors
  • Change stressors
  • Chemical stressors
  • Work stressors
  • Decision stressors
  • Phobic stressors
  • Physical stressors
  • Disease stressors
  • Pain stressors
  • Environmental stressors
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Research Supports Mindfulness Practices

  • Decreased ADHD behaviors—specifically

hyperactivity and impulsivity

  • Fewer conduct and anger management

problems

  • Decreased negative affect, or emotions
  • Decreased anxiety in general and text anxiety in

particular

  • Decreased depression
  • Increased emotional regulation
  • Increased self-calming
  • Increased social skills and social

compliance

  • Increased care for others
  • Increased sense of calmness,

relaxation, and self-acceptance

  • Increased self-esteem
  • Increased quality of sleep
  • Increased attention
  • Increased executive function (working

memory, planning, organization, and impulse control)

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Choice-making

Tools for Success

  • Change the Situation
  • Change our Perception
  • Accept the Situation

The ability to claim and make choices is directly related to personal

  • wnership, respect and self-worth
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Options for Change

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Mindfulness

Paying attention in a particular way

  • On purpose
  • In the present moment
  • Without judgment

Jon Kabat-Zinn - Founder: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) University of Massachusetts Medical Center

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Respond Versus React

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Mindfulschools.org

Mindfulness

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Mindfulness

  • Our thoughts and perceptions, if

negative, reinforce emotions that can cause suffering

  • Thoughts are most often about the

past or future

  • The one moment we actually can

experience “the present moment” is the one we seem most to avoid

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Educational “Standards”

  • For students to successfully

meet “Standards”, they must possess social-emotional skills

  • Unless students come to

school with all these skills in place, deliberate teaching of these skills is necessary

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Mindfulness Practice:

Tier 1, 2 and 3 Intervention

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Mindfulness can help us negotiate the complexity of life

…at any age!!!!

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With Mindfulness

  • WE can LAUGH at ourselves

more

  • WE can be LESS CRITICAL of
  • urselves and others
  • WE are KINDER
  • WE are more SINCERE