Course overview

Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating present-moment awareness and a non-judgmental focus on one's thoughts, feelings, and surroundings. In an educational context, mindfulness offers teachers and education staff a powerful tool to enhance the learning environment. By incorporating mindfulness into their own lives, educators can better manage stress, improve emotional regulation, and foster a sense of well-being. Participants will learn about the origins and uses of mindfulness in different settings and experiment a variety of mindful strategies that will allow them to integrate this practice in their classroom. Through a hands-on approach participants will acquire concrete methods that will enhance the teacher-student relationship, improve communication, and create a positive and resilient space for academic and personal growth.

​Learning outcomes

This course allows participants to improve their own and their students’ well-being by integrating mindful practices into their own teaching and therefore foster a sense of presence, participation, stress-resilience and growth in their classrooms. 
The general aim of this course is to foster excellence in education by empowering teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff to cultivate a more present mindset and promote empathic relationships and self-awareness in the classroom together with other participants and trainers throughout all Europe gaining as well a broader understanding of education in Europe and exchanging best practices and experiences.
Thanks to this course the participants will:

• Define mindfulness and its key principles.
• Cultivate self-awareness and present-moment attention through mindfulness meditation techniques
• Explore ways to integrate mindfulness into daily teaching practices
• Practice mindfulness techniques for managing stress and responding to challenges
• Learn how to lead simple relaxation and visualization activities to ease students’ anxiety;
• Explore the role of empathy and compassion in education.
• Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with fellow colleagues and the course trainers;
• Make contacts with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation and networking activities.
  
  

Courses planned

2024
29/09/2024 - 05/10/2024 (Tenerife)

2025
27/04/2025 - 03/05/2025 (Palermo)
27/04/2025 - 03/05/2025 (Tenerife)
11/05/2025 - 17/05/2025 (Bologna)
​20/07/2025 - 26/07/2025 (Bologna)
20/07/2025 - 26/07/2025 (Palermo)
20/07/2025 - 26/07/2025 (Tenerife)

​If none of these dates suits you please mind that if there are at least 8 participants interested we may organize an additional session ad-hoc for your school.

Target audience

This course is open to: teachers, headmasters, trainers, educational staff, school and education managers, educational and  career counsellors, other school staff, other adult education staff, other higher education staff, other non-governmental organization staff, public servants, policy makers. Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels.

Language

The course is held in English. For groups with at least 8 participants, we can organize an ad-hoc session in a different language. 
Please write an email to [email protected] to get more information about it.

Standard daily programme

Please find below the standard indicative daily programme that will be personalized on participants needs and professional profiles.
Our standard programme comprises 7 days, of which the first one is dedicated to networking, preparation and cultural immersion and the last one to follow up, specific needs and cultural activities. Please note that we always do our best to accommodate the specific needs of our participants in a flexible way, including but not limited to budget restrictions and travel arrangements. Participants can choose to arrive 1 day before the start of the course and/or leave one day after the end of it in order to enjoy a deeper cultural immersion. Upon specific request we may organize longer or shorter versions of this course.

Sunday	-  Participants arrival  - Orientation and information about the venue and the city   - Networking activities  - Walking tour in the venue’s city
Monday	- Course introduction - Teambuilding exercises - Needs and expectations evaluation - What is mindfulness: origins and key principles - Benefits of mindfulness in daily life and education - Practical activity: mindfulness meditation
Tuesday	-  Morning wrap-up - Personal mindfulness skills: learning to be aware in the present moment - The healing power of nature for stress reduction - How to build a mental health awareness in the classroom - Outdoor activities: mindfulness practices to connect with our surroundings
Wednesday	-  Morning wrap-up -  Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR): principles and uses - Mindfulness in the classroom: how to reduce students’ anxiety  -  Optional cultural visit outside the venue’s city
Thursday	-  Morning wrap-up - Compassionate Teaching and Communication: improving relationships - Practical activities to raise awareness on bullying and cyberbullying - Mindfulness and Social Emotional Learning: a non judgmental approach  - Practical activity: promoting self awareness and empathic responses
Friday	-  Morning wrap-up - Creating a positive classroom environment by integrating mindfulness into daily teaching practices - Discussion on opportunities to integrate mindfulness into school curriculum - Practical activity: create a sustainable and realistic ongoing mindfulness practice  -  Farewell dinner
Saturday	- Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities - Course roundup and final evaluation - Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony - Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional) - Participants departure

Other relevant facts

• Methodology
• Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
• Certification and Validation of learning outcomes

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We tailor the working methods based upon participants’ needs, attitudes and professional profiles in order to ensure high productivity, effectiveness and transferability into practice.
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on learning outside the traditional classroom setting and to create  an interactive and international environment. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange.
Morning Wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure quality of education and to adapt the learning programme to participants' needs better tailoring the education.
Free time has been planned to give to the participants time to assimilate the concepts, develop further the group activities, ask trainers for further clarifications, etc. Networking and cooperation among participants will be supported and stimulated at each stage.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know  the venue place as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional cooperation and links.
The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course. 

Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course  thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about  how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements. 
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2025 costs 1405 EUR in Bologna, 1330 EUR in Tenerife and Thessaloniki and 1225 EUR in Palermo, Porto and Rimini and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. The standard option in Bologna, Tenerife and Thessaloniki includes all meals from Sunday lunch to Saturday lunch, while in Palermo, Porto and Rimini includes all breakfasts and three networking meals in local restaurants. Few of our courses include extra services and activities hence having a different pricing option, which will be communicated upon receiving the pre-registration.​
For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. In this way you can have more flexibility in planning your stay and you can enjoy all the cultural activities planned from the first to the last day of course. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding. Shall you have need any help with filling the budget during the application stage or have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to support you.

At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance, together - if requested - with the Europass Mobility Certificate. The certificate are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and include a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the course provider and the course instructor(s).
We support the participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
We experienced that schools and education organizations may require additional documents to certify the competences learned or the presence in the training course. Upon request we can provide additional certification and reporting documents as well as we provide photos of the training course and a sum-up video that can be used for visibility and dissemination purposes.

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