Mindful Resilience and Wellness in Educators Through the COVID Crisis
The program is offered for 0.3 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level; Professional area).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
SLP participants will be able to:
- Develop practical strategies to promote wellness and learning with your children, clients, and community
- Review the science of post-traumatic growth
- Demonstrate mindfulness-based resilience practices for mind, body, and spirit
Seminar Schedule
12:00pm – 1:00pm: Welcome & introduction of goals; Development of practical strategies to promote wellness and learning with your children, clients, and community
1:00pm – 2:00pm: Review the science of post-traumatic growth
2:00pm – 2:15pm: Break
2:15pm – 3:15pm: Demonstration of mindfulness-based resilience practices for mind, body, and spirit; Wrap Up & Discussion
Christopher Willard, PsyD, is a psychologist, teacher at Harvard Medical School, and an educational consultant specializing in mindfulness. He has been practicing meditation for 20 years, and leads workshops nationally and internationally. Dr. Willard currently serves on the board of directors at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and is the president of the Mindfulness in Education Network. He has presented at TEDx conferences and his thoughts have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, mindful.org, and elsewhere. He is the author of Raising Resilience (2017), Growing Up Mindful (2016), and Child's Mind (2010).
Financial disclosure – Chris Willard is receiving an honorarium for his presentation. Non-financial disclosure – Chris Willard has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.