Sharing Awareness-Based Practices With Youth |
A Lineage Project Training |
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By creating a safe environment where at-risk and incarcerated youth can have their own experience of awareness-based practices, such as yoga and meditation, we encourage them to investigate their emotional, physical, and spiritual self; develop strong and healthy bodies; increase concentration, focus, and attention; and build self-esteem and confidence.
Through lecture and experiential activities, we explore the issues facing youth today, with an emphasis on trauma and its residual effects. We draw upon the practices that have been most meaningful to our personal growth as we learn techniques for: making content accessible, planning and structuring exercises and classes, and implementing basic reflective communication and group facilitation strategies.
This workshop is appropriate for anyone currently working with, or interested in working with, youth. Participants should have an established yoga and/or meditation practice and a desire to join a growing community of individuals who believe that all youth can know the great wisdom and compassion that exists within each of us.
Participants will learn to:
- Describe myriad of issues facing youth today
- Recite definition, prevalence and effects of trauma on youth
- List 5 core themes of awareness based on the LP model
- Discuss sections of the LP model and the LP teaching priorities
- Identify the definition of and relevance of professional boundaries
- State the definition of reflective communication and the concepts involved
- Develop sample class content using the LP model
- Recognize the complexity of the issues facing youth today and the role of social support in the definition of “at-risk”
- Describe how trauma effects youth and how awareness-based practices can be beneficial to managing these effects
- Describe why using core themes of awareness as a framework for teaching creates continuity and makes content accessible to youth
- State the rationale behind the LP teaching priorities and model
- Discuss why maintaining professional boundaries is crucial in our work with youth
- Demonstrate the process of reflective communication and explain it’s role in establishing a present moment focus in work
Scholarships are available; contact the Lineage Project at
info@lineageproject.org
Jeramy Zimmerman, Program Manager, came to the Lineage Project as a volunteer in 2005, and has enjoyed teaching (and learning) at various Lineage sites since then. In 2007, she became Lineage’s Program Manager and she remains excited and inspired by her role. Jeramy is certified through OM Yoga Center in NYC. As a dancer and choreographer, Jeramy has worked with at-risk youth since 1993 and she sees her work with Lineage as a path fusing her prior work with her yoga practice.
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