Compassionate Mind Training for Pupils: Wellbeing – Our Brains, Our Bodies (WoBoB) Training

This 2-day (14-hour) CPD course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and materials to enable you to deliver the CMT-Pupils WoBoB wellbeing lessons to pupils aged 9-12 years as part of school PSHE or Social-Emotional Learning materials.

Our pupil wellbeing curriculum has been shown in trial and internationally peer-reviewed published research to:

• improve in-class behaviour
• enable students to feel more socially included
• improve emotion regulation
• impact trait anxiety (i.e. decrease anxiety or inhibit increases in anxiety over time)
• decrease socially prescribed perfectionism
• decrease self-criticism.

All the above are essential aspects of good pupil wellbeing and mental health.

Content

During this course, you will be trained to deliver the following lesson content:

• The three emotion systems of the mind and body
• The drive system – what triggers drive in the brain and the body and practices for how we can cope
• The threat system – what triggers threat in the brain and the body and practices for how can we cope
• The soothing system and using compassion practices to enable coping
• Balancing the three systems of the mind and growing the compassionate self
• Developing the flow of compassion for the better wellbeing of everyone.

Scripts and materials for the six Compassionate Mind Training for Pupils (WoBoB) lessons are provided. This includes all worksheets, PowerPoints and imagery practices etc. The lessons are tailored to be 40 or 50 minutes in duration, depending upon a school’s timetable.

Access to materials will remain in place for 24 months, following which a license renewal rate will be £75 per person/school to extend by a further 24 months. This will ensure that trained individuals have continued access to resources as well as any updated materials. This fee also includes a short refresher course if necessary.

Who is this course for

Teachers and educators responsible for PSHE and/or SEAL provision in schools, and all those in educational, care or youth settings working with children of ages 9 to 12 years to promote good wellbeing and prosocial behaviours.

Example testimonials

The 9–11-year-olds I've been teaching have been excited, and even relieved when they recognise that how they are feeling is part of how their minds and bodies work. This gives them a basis to be kinder to themselves and apply the practices they've learned - Teacher, 2024

The skills that they learnt during the WOBOB sessions have continued to be useful across a range of situations e.g. using body language to improve confidence when public speaking - Head Teacher, 2023

It’s changed me as a person. I used to be angry but now I can calm myself - Pupil, 2024

It has helped me feel a lot more positive about myself. My behaviour has improved even more after the project - Year 6 Pupil, 2022

I have felt more welcomed in class I have been more accepted by the students in my class - Year 7 Pupil, 2021

Participants must have completed the Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) for Teachers, Staff and Educators (CMT-TSE) course or a recognised Compassionate Mind Training/Compassion Focused Therapy course via the Compassionate Mind Foundation or its affiliations.

If a recognised Compassionate Mind Training/Compassion Focused Therapy course has been undertaken but does not cover all elements outlined in the CMT for Teachers, Staff and Educators course, participants must first engage with a pre-recorded online version of the CMT-TSE (at the reduced cost of £95).

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Minimum numbers

Please note that this course is subject to minimum numbers in order to run.

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