Classroom Resources
Pause Breathe Smile Learning Journal
How to Make a Mind Jar
Do Worries Stick To You?
Communicating with Families
E-flyer for Whānau
Classroom Practices
Guided Mindfulness Practices - Recorded Resources
The professionally-recorded guided practice resources listed in the table below are to be played to the classroom during that week’s lesson. They are accessed by you, the certified PBS educator, by clicking on each file image.
The specific guided practice for each week’s lesson should be played at least one more time during that week (in addition to the day of the lesson). The rest of the week the classroom can practice ‘Straight Back-Soft Belly’ and / or ‘Coming Home’.
Lesson 1*: Coming Home Straight Back-Soft Belly
Lesson 2*: Happiness Here and Now
Coming Home*
Lesson 3: Everything for the First Time
Making Friends with the Body
Lesson 4: All Things Rising and Falling
Feelings are the Language of the Body
Lesson 5: Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together
Here in this Body, Now in this Moment
Lesson 6: Kind Heart, Happy Heart
Happy Heart Practice*
and Happy Heart with Visualisation
Lesson 7: Everything is Connected to Everything Else
Breathing with the Green Plants
Lesson 8: Touching Base, Touching Stillness
Class Choice
Mindful Movements
Breathe Easy with Hikitia Te Hā
The Gratitude Experiment
Neuroplasticity
The Science of Kindness
Outrageous Bursts of All Right
We are All Connected
Animation: Yearly Biosphere Cycle shows Earth 'Breathing'
* The three guided practice resources called “Straight Back-Soft Belly”, “Coming Home” and "Happy Heart Practice" are available on the PBS Free Resources page of the MEG website for open use.
Other videos that are referred to in your handbook and are recommended viewing for the students are also available on the MEG website PBS Free Resources page.
Classroom guided practices for teenagers
Week One:Straight Back Soft Belly (Teen)
Male
Female
Week Two: Coming Home (Teen)
Male
Female
Week Three: Body Scan
(Teen)
Male
Female
Week Four: Feelings are the Language of the Body (Teen)
Male
Female
Week Five: Here in this Body, Now in this Moment (Teen)
Male
Female
Week Six: Happy Heart Practice (Teen)
Male
Female
Week Seven: Breathing with the Green Plants (Teen)
Male
Female
Week Eight: Student Choice (Teen)
Classroom guided practices in Māori
Week One:
Straight Back Soft Belly
Week Two:
Coming Home
Week Three:
Body Scan
Week Four:
Feelings are the Language of the Body
Week Five:
Here In This Body, Now In This Moment
Week Six:
Happy Heart Practice
Week Seven:
Breathing With The Green Plants
Latest Audio Tracks
Finding The Breath- Long (Male)
Finding The Breath - Long (Female)
Finding The Breath - Short (Male)
Finding The Breath - Short (Female)
Being a Friend to Yourself (Male)
Being a Friend to Yourself (Female)
Filling the Balloon (For Adults/Young Adults) (Female)
Filling the Balloon (For Kids) (Female)
Happy for Others (For Adults/Young Adults) (Female)
Enrichment Lessons
New Zealand Curriculum, Wellbeing for Success and Te Whare Tapa Whā
Wellbeing for Success: Effective Practice
Te Whare Tapa Whā
Definitions of Mindfulness
A Brief Definition of Mindfulness
Mindfulness: A Proposed Operational Definition
Perils and Promise in Defining and Measuring Mindfulness
Understanding Flourishing
Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change
Relationships between exposure to nature and health and wellbeing benefits in New Zealand
Flourishing, Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing: How can they be increased?
The nature of wellbeing
HEI PUĀWAITANGA MŌ TĀTOU KATOA
Flourishing For All In Aotearoa
Integrating the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives to more comprehensively understand wellbeing and pathways to wellbeing
Research Exploring Mindfulness for Flourishing
Relevant Research
Mindfulness in Education: Evidence-base and implications for Aotearoa/New Zealand
Enhancing Cognitive and Social–Emotional Development Through a Simple-to-Administer Mindfulness-Based School Program
Pause breathe smile: a mixed-methods study of student well-being
The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness as a core strategy for promoting mental health and increasing positive (flourishing) states of well-being
Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman
A Study of the Effects of Mindfulness in Five Primary Schools in New Zealand
Research Exploring Kindness and Generosity
MBIs in schools – a systematic review and meta analysis
References and Additional Bibliography for PBS Educator's Handbook
