Pause Breathe Smile teacher training is delivered in three parts.

Part 1: Breathe online mindfulness

• Comprehensive introduction to mindfulness course for teacher’s own understanding and practice of mindfulness
• Designed to help reduce participants stress and burn-out and boost overall wellbeing
• Online video sessions: self-paced, access 24/7
• Expert instruction with guided practices
• Understand the key concepts of mindfulness before teaching PBS

Part 2: Professional Learning and Development Workshop

• Workshop is delivered to the whole-school in-house as a teacher only day
• Receive your copy of the PBS Educator’s handbook of lesson plans, a thorough peer-reviewed resource.
• Expert mindfulness facilitators lead participants through practical exercises
• Overview of lesson plans including sample scripts and classroom activities
• Each PBS lesson is aligned to the NZC and incorporates Te Whare Tapa Wha

Part 3: Online Resources

• PBS tutorial videos: practical instruction on lesson delivery
• Access to high-quality PBS print, audio & video classroom resources
• Teacher’s evaluation tools
• Professionally recorded classroom guided practices
• Student’s learning journal
• Supporting documentation, research & evidence that informs Pause, Breathe, Smile
• Mindful movement videos
• New content added regularly

Please send your booking enquiry, with preferred dates to coordinator@pausebreathesmile.nz (please be aware that due to capacity your first preference may not always be possible, but we will do our best to accommodate you).  We will respond to all enquiries, however, please bear with us as we grow our capacity, develop our new booking systems and respond to demand. If you would like to join our newsletter database for updates, please do so here. 

If your school is already implementing Pause Breathe Smile and you want to upskill new teachers, we will try whenever possible to include teachers from existing PBS schools in the teacher-only day workshop of a new school, with no PLD cost. We will no longer be offering regional workshops for one or two teachers from a number of different schools to attend. Feel welcome to email coordinator@pausebreathesmile.nz if you would like to get some of your new teaching staff on to a waitlist to join in with a new PBS school.

Priority for funding will always be given to primary and intermediate schools implementing PBS across the whole-school. However, by special exception a single teacher from a school not already implementing PBS may be able to join the training with another whole school, provided there is a commitment to train the rest of the teaching staff when the school’s PLD calendar allows. We will no longer be offering regional workshops for one or two teachers from a number of different schools to attend.

Every teacher and support staff (e.g. school counsellor, RTLB) that will have a direct relationship with the children of the eligible primary or intermediate school can participate in the funded PLD as part of the whole-school training.

The Pause Breathe Smile programme is designed for Year 0-8 learners. ECE and High School teachers or those who might wish to deliver PBS as an independent or external facilitator are not able to train in Pause Breathe Smile. You are still welcome to join our newsletter database for updates.