A Creative Approach to Using Mindfulness With Youth

Looking for innovative ways to support mental health, especially during this difficult time? Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can strengthen your work with young people.

Researchers studying MBIs have reported a multitude of benefits, including improved emotion regulation, mood, social competence, and resilience. Youth workers and other frontline practitioners have a unique contribution to make to the practice and study of MBIs: our approaches are holistic, creative, and strengths-based, and we aim to create change that moves beyond the individual, recognizing our interconnectedness and encouraging us to act to support our communities.

Join us for this timely webinar and learn about:

• the personal and professional benefits of practicing mindfulness, including developing therapeutic presence and engaging people in enjoyable processes that foster inclusion and expression;
• a variety of arts-based mindfulness activities;
• how to facilitate/discuss the philosophy of mindfulness, including some of its concepts (self-compassion/non-judgement) and practices (mindful breathing/meditation);
• how to facilitate these concepts and practices by way of arts-based and experiential methods that are highly engaging and foster enjoyment and success.

Our special guests for this discussion, based in Sudbury, Ontario, have studied arts-based mindfulness and worked with children and youth, university students, youth and adults seeking mental health services, elementary school teachers, and women leaving abusive relationships:

• Dr. Diana Coholic, Professor, School of Social Work, Laurentian University
• Tricia Goeldner, Social Worker, Rainbow District School Board
• Amanda Hardy, Elementary School Teacher, Rainbow District School Board

You can also download our new resource, Mindfulness-Based Programs for Youth: A Toolkit for Youth Workers, from our Knowledge Hub. This toolkit, developed in partnership with the Holistic Arts-Based Program, was designed for youth workers and includes best practices, activities, exercises, and evaluation tools.

Learn more and register for this FREE webinar on our website:
http://youthrex.com/webinars/

All YouthREX webinars are recorded and archived, with related resources, on our Knowledge Hub.