Train to Teach the Warrior Programme

This course is ONSITE

Course Description:

The Sanctuary is now offering a training course for those who work with young people to enable them to deliver our Mindful Warrior Programme in their own school or centre. This programme will be facilitated by Brother Richard Hendrick and Niamh Bruce. 

What is the Mindful Warrior?

The Warrior Programme is a teacher trainer programme that draws on the various traditions of culture and the arts, helping young people to end up as warriors with greater self-awareness. It is built around an initiation framework linked to adolescent psychological development that includes:

1. Mindfulness and movement practices
2. Insights from psychology of adolescent development
3. Ways to experience moments of reflective stillness
4. Traditional wisdom embodied in the ‘gentle warrior’ figure
5. Use of creative imagination

What are the benefits?

Inclusion of the Mindful Warrior Programme in the classroom helps to transform young people’s behaviour and helps them to develop self-awareness, reflection and the resilience needed to deal with challenges and disappointments in life.

Who is the Mindful Warrior Programme for?

It best serves the needs of a cohort of young people who require an alternative, experiential-led approach to their development and is particularly suited to young people from 5th class to 2nd year, who are finding the journey to maturity and social integration challenging.

Will I get resources I can use in the classroom?

Yes, you will be supplied with handouts and lesson plans, we also offer follow up reconnection days so that we can help you continue your practise.

Are there prerequisites to join this course?

Applicants to the facilitator training course should have undertaken some prior mindfulness training and have established a regular mindfulness practice.

Prerequisites to the course include:

Ideally, applicants should have completed an 8-week mindfulness course such as MBSR / MBCT / MBLC / MBCL / Breathworks / .b Foundations or the Art of Stillness in the Classroom, with at least 6 months of a minimum of 20 minutes of mindfulness practice per day (such as sitting or body scan practices).Exceptions to the qualification prerequisites outlined above may be made for applicants who have a long-standing mindfulness practice in other contexts (eg. Vipassana / Shamatha / Insight Meditation or WCCM / Centering Prayer).

Reflections on the Programme:

“I’ve had the privilege to have participated in the Mindful Warrior Programme and it is the most life changing piece of education I have ever undergone – for both personal growth and for the young people who I work with on a daily basis.”

Lisa Bonnell, Youth Worker, Ballymun Regional Youth Resource

Duration: Spread over three weekends

Day & Date:

Friday 8th of November (evening) Saturday the 9th of November (full-day) and Sunday the 10th of November (half-day)

Friday 29th November (evening) Saturday 30th (full-day) and Sunday 1st of December (half-day)

Friday 6th of December (evening) Saturday 7th of December (full-day) and Sunday 8th of December (half-day)

Price: €400

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