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Family Mindfulness

FAMILY

MINDFULNESS

4 Week Program is designed for easy use to go at your own pace

  • New content will be delivered each week via email including: instruction, guided meditations, resources, and more

  • Each week you choose a 30-minute timeframe for an instructional session with mindfulness meditation teacher, Erin Sheehan (phone or Zoom!)

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Family Mindfulness

Mindfulness practice can provide a natural and effective practice to help cope with life’s stress and anxiety for parents and the entire family. Parents who display mindfulness practice can then bring it to their children in an authentic and strong way.

Benefits for children and adolescents

  • Increased emotional regulation

  • Increased social skills

  • Increased ability to orient attention

  • Increased working memory and planning and organization

  • Increased self esteem

  • Increased sense of calmness, relaxation, and self acceptance.

  • Increased quality of sleep

  • Decreased test anxiety

  • Decreased ADHD behaviors- specifically hyperactivity and impulsivity

  • Decreased negative affect/ emotions

  • Decreased anxiety

  • Decreased depression

  • Fewer conduct and anger management problems

Retrieved from: http://www.mindfuleducation.org/research/