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Amy Saltzman;
Amy Saltzman M.D. is trained in Internal Medicine, a founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, co-founder and director of the Association for Mindfulness in Education - see more.
A 3-Day Mindfulness Program for Teaching Youth
- Register to receive the dates for the 2019 edition
- 3 Days
- September 21st - 23rd
- Fees: $ (See + bottom of the page)
- Book Included
- For everyone
- Barcelos - Portugal
- English
- Still Quiet Place Certificate
- Watch the A Still Quiet Place Webinar EXCERPT
Why the "A Still Quiet Place" Program?
- The A Still Quiet Place Practicum is designed for educators and allied professionals who are interested in offering mindfulness to children and adolescents — to support them in developing their natural capacities for focused attention, engaged learning, emotional fluency, respectful communication, and compassionate action.
- Mindfulness offers powerful tools for enhancing coping and well-being, and a growing body of research shows that children, as well as adults, can harness its benefits.
- Packed with effective ideas, this practicum focuses on building core mindfulness skills with kids and teens in diverse settings.
- Amy combine mindfulness expertise, developmental knowledge, clinical acumen, and real-world teaching experience.
- Accessible and inspiring, the book provides strategies that can be implemented immediately in the classroom, child therapy office, or community.
- A unique opportunity that meets a growing demand, this practicum will be enrolled with interest by mental health professionals and educators who work with children and teens of all ages.
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Essential Points
- Teaching kids stress management skills
- Teaching kids stress management skills early in life will help them to grow into happy and healthy adults. And if you work with children or adolescents, you know that kids today need these skills more than ever. The pressures they face in the classroom, on the playground, in their extracurricular activities, and at home can sometimes be overwhelming.
- A Still Quiet Place presents an eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program
- that therapists, teachers, and other professionals can use to help children and adolescents manage stress and anxiety in their lives, and develop their natural capacities for emotional fluency, respectful communication, and compassionate action. The program detailed in this book is based on author Amy Saltzman’s original curriculum, which has helped countless children and adolescents achieve significant improvements in attention and reduced anxiety.
- The still quiet place is a place of peace and happiness
- One of the easiest ways to find the still quiet place within is to practice mindfulness—paying attention to your life experience here and now with kindness and curiosity. The easy-to-implement mindfulness practices in this guide are designed to help increase children and adolescents’ attention, learning, resiliency, and compassion by showing them how to experience the natural quietness that can be found within.
Tentative Schedule
- 9-10:30 overview, intros, guidelines
- 11-12:30 Rest practice
- 12:30- 2:00 lunch
- 4:00- 5:30 Thought Watching and Unkind Mind
- 7:00- 8:30 Feelings
- 9-10:30 Emotion Theory, Suffering= PainX Resistance
- 11-12:30 Responding and Reacting
- 12:30- 2:00 lunch
- 2:00- 4:00 Videos, Partner Practice or Free time
- 4:00-5:30 Difficult Communications
- 7:00-8:30 Loving Kindness
- 9-12:30 Notes and Cautions
- 12:30- 2:00 lunch
- 2:00- 3:30 Q and A
- 4:00 – END
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
In Detail + FAQ
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WHY ATTEND TO THIS MEDITATION RETREAT?
Amy Saltzman:The Still Quiet Place is the joyful alchemy of all the elements of ongoing education: conventional medicine, transformational coaching, holistic medicine, mindfulness, and mothering. Offering these skills to children, parents and teachers is the truest form of preventive medicine I know.
What is it?
The Still Quiet Place Practicum is designed for educators and allied professionals who are interested in offering mindfulness to children and adolescents — to support them in developing their natural capacities for focused attention, engaged learning, emotional fluency, respectful communication, and compassionate action. Together we will explore, in detail, the research-based Still Quiet Place curriculum.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Engage in a variety of mindfulness-based practices for children and adolescents through experiential techniques and mindful inquiry.
- Develop skills to offer a variety of adapted mindfulness-based practices for children and youth.
- Discuss current information regarding mindfulness and brain science through research and practice.
- Review current research as it is related to societal trends regarding the state of our youth today and explore how mindfulness can play a crucial role in positively impacting these trends.
- Obtain direct, personal experience of mindfulness practice and learn how it applies to both professional and personal practice.
A excerpt from the SQP
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WHO CAN BENEFIT?
This practicum is designed for educators and allied professionals who are interested in offering mindfulness to children and adolescents — to support them in developing their natural capacities for focused attention, engaged learning, emotional fluency, respectful communication, and compassionate action. Together we will explore, in detail, the research-based Still Quiet Place curriculum.
Target Audience:
Educators, healthcare providers, psychotherapists, researchers and administrators of programs providing care and education to children and youth.
Priority participation
will be given to those with:- Experience working/playing with children.
- An established daily mindfulness practice.
- Mindfulness retreat experience.
Participants receive:- A free copy of A Still Quiet Place: A Mindfulness Program for Teaching Children and Adolescents to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions.
- Free access to Still Quiet Place audio tracks, worksheets, and a sample course outline which can be implemented in any group educational or clinical setting.
- Examples of foundational documents, including a sample letter to decision-makers, a flier promoting the mindfulness program, and a sample parental consent form.
- Access to the private Still Quiet Place Facebook discussion group.
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Frequently Asked Questions
VENUE
• Casa Silva, Barcelos, Portugal
About 50 kms from Oporto airport Nestled in the beautiful North of Portugal, this center is the perfect site for retreats. It offers fresh air, mountain vistas, gorgeous wooded acreage, personalized service and the best facilities around. Located just 40 minutes from Oporto Airport, with great accesses, you will feel a million miles away from the city, but we're close enough for an easy getaway. The meditation gardens offers sanctuary to reflect and recharge in natural beauty with sounds of water all around.
Amenities: Accomodations:There are more than 30 bedrooms (altought the group is limited), each with its own newly remodeled private bathroom with toilet, sink and shower. Sheets, blankets, towels and soap are provided. Rooms have adjustable heaters and wireless internet. The food is amazing.
Distance between Barcelos station and the retreat center
For various reasons, we encourage that participants share rides and travel costs.
FAQs
What time should I arrive? When will we finish? Information available soon
Is there wireless service/mobile phone use?
Expect to get consistent, reliable wireless internet service while at the retreat center. It is most advisable to restrict cellphone am computer use because of the training nature, however we recognize that sometimes computer use is a necessity. Most cellular phones will work in this location. Again, however given the nature of the retreat there will be limited opportunities to use them, so informing those who may need to contact you of these limitations ahead of time will be helpful.
Is it possible to stay extra nights at the facility or arrive a day or two early?
The retreat center is often booked both right before and right after our training, so arriving early or staying an extra night or two after the retreat maybe a possibility but requires planning in advance.
What do I need to bring?
If it is at all possible, please bring a meditation cushion (zafu) and a yoga mat. We will have a some cushions and mats, but maybe not enough to everyone. So if you have one and can squeeze it into your luggage or bring it as a carry-on please consider doing so. It is always advisable to check the weather forecast prior to traveling, to help guide you in proper clothing choices.
What should I expect regarding the format of the Practicum?
This encounter is taught in a residential format, which means there is a great deal of mindfulness practices embedded. The venue very much facilitates this format; we will will meet, eat and be housed in a relatively secluded area. There are no other large groups planned in the center that time, so it should be relatively quiet and secluded. The rooms are clean and comfortable, similar to a hotel room.
What should I read prior to arriving?
Information availabel soon
What if I require some special accommodations or have dietary restrictions?
While you are asked to note specific food restrictions on your registration application (on the comments), if there are any additional food or medical concerns we should be aware of please let us know of these in advance so we may assist you.
► DATE:21st-23rd September 2018
FEES
$ “Early-Bird Discount” if you register and pay in full on or before August 31st, 2018
Early-Bird Rate on or before August 31st, 2018
On or After August 31st, 2018
Registration
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Room and Board and Local Fees Single or Double Occupancy Payable in cash upon arrival.
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- Room & Board fee is payable in Euro (cash) upon arrival.
- Registration fee does not include standard room and board charge.
- Upon submission of your registration your application will be reviewed for prerequisites and you will be contacted when it has been formally accepted.
Notes
If you have difficulties submitting your application via this web form, you may try a recent browser, such as Firefox or Chrome, or email your application directly to eventos.spmbe(at)gmail.com
► It’s necessary to fill the application form;
► In the application form select the Event – Practicum – Mindfulness Program for Children and Adolescents;
► The event takes place with a minimum of 25 participants committed to the course by july 30th (full payment) – so apply as soon as possible;
► If possible bring baggy clothes, a pillow and a mat and zafu (if you have them);
► Upon submission of your registration you will receive an email with additional information;
► The program is subject to minor changes.
Cancellation Policy
► A refund (minus your non-refundable and non-transferable deposit) will be made for cancellations submitted in writing 30 days prior to the training. No refunds will be allowed after that date.
► In the unlikely event that the course is cancelled, Portuguese Society of Meditation – Mindfulness Institute is responsible only for a full refund of the registration fee and not for transportation, hotel accommodations or any miscellaneous expenses.
We have no responsibility for losses, damages, expenses or inconvenience that may arise, for any reason, due your participation in this event
CONFIDENTIALITY
SPM-BE – MI guarantees the confidentiality of personal data provided and their treatment in accordance with current legislation on data protection.
Amy Saltzman
About the Teacher
Amy Saltzman
Amy Saltzman M.D. is trained in Internal Medicine, a founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, co-founder and director of the Association for Mindfulness in Education, and a founding member of the Northern California Advisory Committee on Mindfulness. She served on the Board of Trustees of the American Holistic Medical Association for eight years and was the first medical director of the integrative Health and Healing Clinic at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. In 2002, she established a private practice in Menlo Park, CA, where she provides holistic medical care and individual mindfulness instruction to children, teens, and adults. She also offers presentations and courses for young children, teens, parents, educators, and health care professionals. Amy Saltzman, M.D., is the founder and director of the Still Quiet Place and co-founder and Director and she is a pioneer in the fields of holistic medicine and mindfulness for youth.Her CDs Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness for Young Children, and Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness for Teens and her book A Still Quiet Place: A Mindfulness Program for Teaching Children and Adolescents to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions are available via itunes, Amazon, and www.cdbaby.com.
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Amy Saltzman has produced a highly illuminative and extremely practical mindfulness-based program for children and adolescents.
“A Still Quiet Place provides step-by-step instructions for facilitators to administer the program in whole or in part. It is a must-have for mental health professionals, educators, and parents wishing to teach children and adolescents mindfulness and social and emotional learning. Highly recommended!”
- Sam Himelstein, PhD, director of the Mind Body Awareness Project and author of A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents
