

Mindful Discipline
Leaders, Teachers, Staff
About
“The greatest gift you can give someone is to get yourself together.”
- Wendy Palmer
The Mindful Discipline workship aims to deepen understanding of Mindfulness and its application in constructive and restorative practices to discipline students and managing boundaries without compromising compassion. Punishments, power, control and threats may not be the only means to changing behaviour in children and youth. Being too permissive or too authoritarian tends to be ineffective leading to more unwholesome behaviours in students. Working with students to change unwholesome behaviours can be difficult and teachers play multiple roles and responsibilities that may create stress and reactivity.
With the techniques of Mindful Discipline, teachers can maintain healthy boundaries, respect and compassion while responding from a space of empathic and collected response.
Benefits
larity over purpose and intention
feel more empowered
increases grounding
increases confidence
improves focused attention and attentional flexibility
promotes emotional balance and regulation
improves control and response flexibility
improves stress management and stress reduction
increases empathy and compassion to self and students
increases resiliency
increases self and other acceptance
secure attachment: Supports healthy relationships and boundaries in school and home
enhances school climate
reduces anxiety and depression
enhances pro-social behaviours
deepens awareness of respectful boundaries
increases proactiveness
reduces judgement
increases objectivity
attunes communication
increases curiosity
greater internal locus of control
supports overall wellbeing