Schools
Educational institutions are one of the greatest influencers on the next generation. Mental and emotional models of personal competence, empathy and individuation are formed during the formative years of secondary and tertiary schooling. Helping young people with both self awareness and being societally conscientious will have the biggest impact on how governmental, corporate and social systems evolve for future generations.
trulyBalance has been working in schools since 2008 offering courses and programs for:
Schools
Educational institutions are one of the greatest influencers on the next generation. Mental and emotional models of personal competence, empathy and individuation are formed during the formative years of secondary and tertiary schooling. Helping young people with both self awareness and being societally conscientious will have the biggest impact on how governmental, corporate and social systems evolve for future generations.
trulyBalance has been working in schools since 2008 offering courses and programs for:
Course for Schools
ADOLESCENTS (in-class and extra-curricular)
beChill® Exams & Life programs: Self leadership with Calm Confidence
This is a unique course or series of in-class sessions that help students perform to their best ability in school and in society. Performing at our best level is about mastering anxiety and self-doubt. This requires an active mind in a relaxed body. Sophrology (what is Sophrology) and Mindfulness exercises reset the limbic brain so that students can set emotions aside and achieve at their best level.
These techniques assist participants in finding clarity and confidence in decision making, improve self-awareness, increase their ability to concentrate, give them the courage to be themselves and approach stressful periods with a sense of calm. It is an experience in happiness inside and out.
Techniques based in Sophrology, Mindfulness, Neurolinguistic Programming and Positive Psychology.
Target Audience:
Students ages 11 to 18
Course for Schools
ADOLESCENTS (in-class and extra-curricular)
beChill® Exams & Life programs: Self leadership with Calm Confidence
These are unique programs or series of in-class sessions that help students perform to their best ability in school and in society. Performing at our best level is about mastering anxiety and self-doubt. This requires an active mind in a relaxed body. Sophrology (what is Sophrology) and Mindfulness exercises reset the limbic brain so that students can set emotions aside and achieve at their best level.
These techniques assist participants in finding clarity and confidence in decision making, improve self-awareness, increase their ability to concentrate, give them the courage to be themselves and approach stressful periods with a sense of calm. It is an experience in happiness inside and out.
Techniques taught are based in sophrology, mindfulness, neurolinguistic programming and positive psychology.
Target Audience:
Students ages 11 to 18
Delivery:
beChill® Life programs are offered throughout the school year as an in-person weekly extra-curricular activity.
beChill® Exams programs can be offered to students several weeks ahead of their examination periods or as part of advisor period sessions. Staff that work as school counsellors or pastoral heads can be certified to deliver the beChill® Exams program within their schools.
Option 3 is an abreviated version of the full program to be delivered live online to students.
Note, beChill® Exams certified sophrologist also exist in Australia and the UK making it easy to deliver such programs in various locations and time zones.
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PRIMARY (in-class and extra-curricular)
Settle In & Focus
A series of 9 Sophrology exercises for elementary aged students are presented in a specific order which bring a classroom of students to stillness to give their mind moments of complete rest to enhance overall performance. Classroom teachers then utilize the exercises within the daily rhythm of the classroom to enhance concentration and energetically change transitions from recess or before tests. These exercises include dynamic movements, stilling and visualizations. Practice posters are available for students to take home and for classroom use.
In-Class: 6×30 minute in-classroom sessions with the teacher and students.
Full day workshop: Working with a group of teachers to learn the principles, practice the techniques, and practice teach backs with peers.
Target Audience:
Primary school students and teachers
Mindfulness
Both the Pawsb and .b courses from the Mindfulness In Schools Project UK are designed to be taught in the classroom with teachers present. These courses enable both the students and teachers to become familiar with and integrate mindfulness practices in the daily operation of the classroom.
Target Audience:
Paws b is for students age 8 to 11 and .b is for students 12 to 16
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PRIMARY (in-class and extra-curricular)
Settle In & Focus
This is a series of 9 sophrology exercises presented in a specific order which brings a classroom of students to stillness and possiblity. These exercises give students a complete nervous system rest while in an active learning state. These exercises include dynamic movements, stilling and visualizations. Practice posters are available for students to take home and for classroom use.
Target Audience:
Primary school students
Delivery:
In-Class: 6×30 minutes in-classroom sessions with the teacher and students. Classroom teachers then utilize the exercises within the daily rhythm of the classroom to enhance concentration and energetically change transitions from recess or before tests.
Full day workshop for teachers: Working with a group of teachers to learn the principles, practice the techniques, and practice teach backs with peers.
Mindfulness
Both the Pawsb and .b courses from the Mindfulness In Schools Project UK are designed to be taught in the classroom with teachers present. These courses enable both the students and teachers to become familiar with and integrate mindfulness practices in the daily operation of the classroom.
Target Audience:
Paws b is for students age 8 to 11 and .b is for students 12 to 16
Delivery:
Weekly 40-minute classes over the course of 8 to 12 weeks with the teacher present in the classroom. Teachers can then reference and use the techniques with the students following the course. Teachers would need an additional hour of training in the mindfulness ethos before using the techniques effectively in the classroom.
Extra-Curricular. The course can also be offered to students as an after school activity for one term of the school year.
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SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
As a motivational speaker I offer two options for school assemblies. These can be delivered live or online.
ADOLESCENTS
What the “HELP!” is going on?
Fun, fascinating and informative talk for adolescents about how their brain is quite exceptional and ready to learn. Students will become familiar with both the limbic and thinking brain as we touch on how the brain develops, its uniqueness in the adolescent years. This is a journey of discovering why they’re behaviours, emotions relationships and decision making changes through the adolescent years. We will also explore what it is so easy to become addicted to various substances and behaviours during this period of brain development. Presentation includes an eye opening experiemnt that usally makes student’s jaws drop!
Strategies for conscious management of the adolescent transition are presented, as well as identification of habits that hinder health and brain development and performance. A version of this presentation is also available for parents of adolescents.
Target Audience:
13 to 18 years of age, parents of adolescents
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Healthy Choices = Healthy Brain & Happy Me
Fun and interactive presentation describing, in age appropriate ways, how the body needs water, fuel, rest, exercise and stillness (mediation, day dreaming, etc) to perform at its best. We touch upon the concepts of “you are what you eat”, “move the body to grow the body & mind”, “still the body to settle the energy in order to create new things”.
The take aways are 5 healthy habits that are easy to remember and put into practice.
Target Audience:
10 to 13 years of age
The take aways are 5 healthy habits that are easy to remember and put into practice.
Programs & Courses for Staff
trulyBalance is ready to assist you in improving the wellbeing and mental health of all of your staff. There are three options available: Programs, Professional Development Day workshops, Weekly online meditations.
Wellbeing programs target burnout prevention, sleep issues and daily energy management. These can be tailored to your school’s needs. I begin with offering a 75 to 90-minute workshops to all interested staff. For those staff that would like to go more in-depth than what the workshop offers they can register for a live online follow on course of 5 to 6 weeks. trulyBalance discounts these courses for your staff and as a BONUS extends this discount to the spouses or partners of your staff.
Professional Development Day 1.5 or 3 hour workshops targetting specific wellbeing topics can also be arranged. These are bespoke workshops tailored to your specific development needs.
Weekly Meditations over lunchtime are also available for school staff. These sessions are 35 minutes in duration and include various techniques such as coherence, mindfulness and sophrology. We focus on a different theme each month.
So that I can better address your school’s needs please book an exploratory call.
Free Exploratory call
Fundamentals of Sophrology
Discover the practice of Sophrology & cultivate more happiness and consciousness in your life!
This course is designed to introduce you to the practice of Sophrology. You will learn and expereince the first two levels of sophrology and be introduced to levels 3 and 4.
Level one being the BODY AS AN ANCHOR and Level two EXPLORING THE MIND AND ITS INFINITE POSSIBILITIES.
One of the “side-effects” from practicing sophrology is HAPPINESS. And happiness breeds success in every aspect in life. The practice is dynamic in nature while also being an exercise in stilling. Stilling our rational mind helps our creative mind solve problems in a more creative way, and wouldn’t we all like the ability to that?
The practice also brings us to increase awareness of the self as a physical being and also as a spiritual and emotional being. This discover transports us beyond the thoughts or experiences that can keep us stuck in the past or tied up with old patterns that block progress.
Sophrology (What is Sophrology?) based techniques allow us to reframe our brains response to old triggers and settle the mind to allow for clear thinking that is both creative and rational.
This is an intensive course which is transformative. It takes place onlin over four Sundays and includes a weekly practice session. This is a GREAT course for COACHES that would like to explore sophrology for personal use and would like to experience sophrology before registering for the foundations course offered by the Sophrology Academy of the UK.
I just wanted to say thank you for this one, Annette was great, she pitched her talk at exactly the right level and got a serious round of applause at the end.
Programs & Courses for Staff
trulyBalance is ready to assist you in improving the wellbeing and mental health of all of your staff. There are three options available: Programs, Professional Development Day workshops, Weekly online meditations.
Fundamentals of Sophrology Course for counsellors, learning support staff and teachers that would like to learn and expereince the transformation Sophrology method to be used for personal self-development or within the work they perform in their positions within the school. Both non-certificaiton and certification options are available. Certification makes participants elegible to become beChill Exams Coaches. This course is offered in conjunction with The Sophrology Academy, a centre of excellence for sophrology in the UK. More information on this course is available here.
Wellbeing programs target burnout prevention, sleep issues and daily energy management. These can be tailored to your school’s needs. I begin with offering a 75 to 90-minute workshops to all interested staff. For those staff that would like to go more in-depth than what the workshop offers they can register for a live online follow on course of 5 to 6 weeks. trulyBalance discounts these courses for your staff and as a BONUS extends this discount to the spouses or partners of your staff.
Professional Development Day 1.5 or 3 hour workshops targetting specific wellbeing topics can also be arranged. These are bespoke workshops tailored to your specific development needs.
Weekly Meditations over lunchtime are also available for school staff. These sessions are 35 minutes in duration and include various techniques such as coherence, mindfulness and sophrology. We focus on a different theme each month.
So that I can better address your school’s needs please book an exploratory call.
Free Exploratory call
Fundamentals of Sophrology
Discover the practice of Sophrology & cultivate more happiness and consciousness in your life!
This course is designed to introduce you to the practice of Sophrology. You will learn and expereince the first two levels of sophrology and be introduced to levels 3 and 4.
Level one being the BODY AS AN ANCHOR and Level two EXPLORING THE MIND AND ITS INFINITE POSSIBILITIES.
One of the “side-effects” from practicing sophrology is HAPPINESS. And happiness breeds success in every aspect in life. The practice is dynamic in nature while also being an exercise in stilling. Stilling our rational mind helps our creative mind solve problems in a more creative way, and wouldn’t we all like the ability to that?
The practice also brings us to increase awareness of the self as a physical being and also as a spiritual and emotional being. This discover transports us beyond the thoughts or experiences that can keep us stuck in the past or tied up with old patterns that block progress.
Sophrology (What is Sophrology?) based techniques allow us to reframe our brains response to old triggers and settle the mind to allow for clear thinking that is both creative and rational.
This is an intensive course which is transformative. It takes place onlin over four Sundays and includes a weekly practice session. This is a GREAT course for COACHES that would like to explore sophrology for personal use and would like to experience sophrology before registering for the foundations course offered by the Sophrology Academy of the UK.