Wellness and wellbeing play a vital role in all of our daily lives and is just as important for children. We are now seeing the stresses of recent years impacting on children’s mental health in various ways. Introducing and embedding mindfulness into children’s daily lives and routines can assist in supporting them to learn how to self-regulate through mindfulness, which is an important life-skill that children can carry throughout their lives.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explore the benefits of mindfulness for children;
• Explore mindfulness experiences we can share with children and embed in their daily routines;
• Identify and discuss the importance of building the families understanding and confidence, to ensure they have the opportunity to implement mindfulness in the home environment too.

Training Presenter: Kirralea Lyneham – Children First Training

Kirralea is a genuine advocate for the wellbeing of children, specialising in training child protection, children’s health & safety, guiding & supporting children’s behaviour and wellbeing. She lives and breathes early childhood education and it shines in her training.

Working as both a Trainer and Educator, she loves bringing her training to life with real and current experiences to support the learning of educators.

Kirralea has 25 years experience in the Early Childhood sector as an ECT, Manager and Director in Long Day Care and Preschool services – including working in a remote community on Magnetic Island in North Queensland. She has also enjoyed teaching at TAFE NSW and Open Colleges as both a Trainer and Assessor.