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Kids: Find Your Peaceful Place
With Andy HobsonThis free 10 day magical adventure teaches children the basics of meditation and how to discover their very own peaceful place. This course is for parents and teachers to play to children, with a suggested age range of 7 - 9 years. In this course Andy brings together the meditation practices that have been the most beneficial and transformative for the children he has taught in schools. These teachings and meditations have been refined and brought together as a complete guide for schools and parents to use. This course is designed to help children with sleep, anxiety, self regulation, emotional literacy, self-esteem, confidence, rocket flying, sailing, silliness and relaxation.
A magical adventure teaching children the basics of meditation and how to discover their very own peaceful place. This course is for parents and teachers to play to children, with a suggested age range of 7 - 9 years.
About this course
This free 10 day magical adventure teaches children the basics of meditation and how to discover their very own peaceful place. This course is for parents and teachers to play to children, with a suggested age range of 7 - 9 years. In this course Andy brings together the meditation practices that have been the most beneficial and transformative for the children he has taught in schools. These teachings and meditations have been refined and brought together as a complete guide for schools and parents to use. This course is designed to help children with sleep, anxiety, self regulation, emotional literacy, self-esteem, confidence, rocket flying, sailing, silliness and relaxation.
Meet your Teacher
Andy’s vision is to create a happier, kinder, more conscious world through teaching meditation to adults and children. Since starting to teach in 2010, Andy has helped countless people around the world through his online guided meditations, courses and mindfulness programmes in schools. Andy draws upon many traditions, philosophies, therapeutic approaches and his personal meditation practice to teach how we can return to our true nature, free ourselves from the voice in our head and find lasting happiness, purpose and freedom. Andy has five years experience working as a therapeutic wellbeing practitioner, managing a child therapy service at a primary school in London. As well as managing a team of trainee therapists, assessing children and supporting parents and carers, Andy has offered weekly one to one mentoring sessions for children using meditation and the arts. Andy’s experience includes supporting children affected by trauma, poverty, family illness, drug addiction, terrorism, neglect and domestic violence. Andy is trained to teach mindfulness based stress reduction in 2010 at the Centre for Mindfulness, Research and Practice at Bangor University, UK – an international centre for excellence in mindfulness training. Since then he has run local mindfulness based stress reduction and mindfulness based cognitive therapy courses in London. He also has a Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling Skills from the BACP approved Manor House Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy and an Intermediate Diploma in Therapeutic Communications with Children from the London Metropolitan University. Before becoming a meditation teacher, Andy worked as a rockstar/ professional drummer. In 2003 he found his dream job of playing music, touring the world and even meeting some of his musical heroes. After a couple of years he started to feel a dissatisfaction with his job. The initial shine of the rockstar life started to wear off and it felt like something big was missing. To understand this dissatisfaction Andy began to explore a number of spiritual traditions and philosophies and committed to a daily meditation practice. Over time he began to experience a greater sense of calm, contentment and happiness. A whole new world opened up. Having experienced the benefits of meditation Andy felt it was important to teach this life changing practice to others.