Using mindfulness to reduce anxiety and build resilience

This practical workshop will look at mindfulness as a tool to help foster carers build resilience in children as well as using it to help reduce anxiety and increase readiness to learn. The workshop will look briefly at brain development and how using mindfulness techniques can be beneficial to supporting children and young people’s learning.  

Throughout the workshop we will look at what mindfulness is as well as looking at the benefits it can have, not only the children and young people, but also the foster carers themselves.  

It will provide a range of resources and activities that can be used in order to promote mindfulness in everyday life and provide an opportunity for foster carers to use some of these techniques within the workshop.  

This workshop will be delivered by Kelly-Ann, with over 15 years of dedicated experience as a Family Support Worker and a further four years as a Fostering Attainment and Achievement project worker. The workshop concentrates on not only the care of the child but also the carer. 

Venue: Armagh City Hotel, Armagh

 To book your place email Kellie Long 

Training funded by Fostering Attainment and Achievement and is for foster carers and kinship carers in Northern Ireland only.