09-01-21: Susan Kaiser Greenland, Teaching Mindfulness to Kids - Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification

09-01-21: Susan Kaiser Greenland,

Teaching Mindfulness to Kids

00:00:24 – Sean welcomes Susan Kaiser Greenland

00:02:57 – Introductory words from Susan Kaiser Greenland

00:07:33 – Guided meditation by Susan Kaiser Greenland

00:19:52 – Setting an intention as a teacher: “May I be helpful”

00:24:36 – The experience of mindfulness

00:28:14 – Mindfulness develops life skills

00:28:51 – Personal development in adults comes first

00:32:21 – Three qualities of the Inner Kids program

00:34:41 – Methods of the Inner Kids program

00:37:38 – Play, practice, share, and apply

00:40:44 – The nervous system is like a watch dog

00:48:37 – Minds change bodies and bodies change minds

00:50:36 – Superhero pose

00:54:21 – Practical strategies for working with stress

00:58:20 – Different stances of attention: spotlight and floodlight

01:02:00 – Helping kids to work with big feelings

01:11:01 – Question: When can you introduce flood light-style practices to a child?

01:19:34 – On compassion and connection

01:25:53 – How can you tell if you have a mindful child?

01:28:50 – Question: How do you explain awe to a child?

01:32:31 – Question: Are the strategies the same when teaching children with ADD, ADHD, or other behavioral issues?

01:37:34 – Question: Do you have suggestions on how to introduce mindfulness to teenagers?

01:47:27 – Befriending difficult experiences

01:51:23 – Question: How can I reach out to schools to share mindfulness with kids?

ABOUT Susan

Susan is an internationally recognized leader in teaching mindfulness and meditation to children, teens, parents, and professionals. She played a foundational role in making mindfulness practices developmentally appropriate for young people and helped to pioneer activity-based mindfulness with her first book The Mindful Child.

Her second book Mindful Games, offers simple explanations of complex concepts, methods, and themes while expanding upon her work developing activity-based mindfulness practices. In addition to her work sharing mindfulness with kids, Susan has recorded a series of brief guided meditations for grownups entitled Mindful Parent, Mindful Child.

Susan collaborated with the creators of the award-winning App Stop, Breathe, Think to develop an App for children Stop, Breathe, Think Kids, she's a founding faculty member of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center's facilitator trainings, and speaks widely at prestigious institutions and meditation centers in the United States and abroad.