By Molly Schreiber

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Creating A
Peace Out
Corner In Your
Classroom
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Challenge To Change
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Five Parts Of Practice

▪ Mudras
▪ Sun Salutation
▪ Heart of the Lesson
▪ Guided Mindfulness Practice
▪ Close Of Practice
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Why Have A Peace Out Corner
In Your Room?
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What Is Mindfulness?

▪ Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware

of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or
overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.
▪ It suggests that the mind is fully attending to what’s happening,
to what you're doing, to the space your moving through.
▪ Mindfulness is right there to snap us back to where we are and
what were doing and feeling.
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Mindfulness Can…

▪ Mindfulness can add to the quality of our lives in numerous

ways, from nurturing a sense of inner peace to improving the
quality of a workout, from enhancing self-confidence to
facilitating deeper and more meaningful relationships with
others.
▪ In children specifically, mindfulness has been found to:
▪ Mitigate the effects of bullying (Zhou, Liu, Niu, Sun, & Fan,
2016)
▪ Enhance focus in children with ADHD (Zhang et al., 2016)
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How To Create A Peace Out Corner In
Your Classroom
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Steps To Creating

▪ Find a space in your classroom far away from distractions.

Perhaps face it away from looking at other students.
▪ Establish rules to entering and exiting the corner.
▪ Order items, perhaps apply for a grant, for the piece out corner.
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Mindfulness Can…

▪ Reduce attention problems (Crescentini, Capurso, Furlan, &

Fabbro, 2016).
▪ Improving mental health and wellbeing
▪ Improve social skills when well taught and practiced in children
and adolescents.
▪ It’s important for caregivers and educators to provide age-
appropriate mindfulness practices for children.
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Items For Atmosphere

▪ Low lighting
▪ Essential Oils
▪ Yoga Mat
▪ Meditation Cushion
▪ Diffuser
▪ Yoga Bolster
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Items To Incorporate In the Peace Out
Corner
▪ Books on mindfulness
▪ Mudra cards and poster
▪ Pose cards and poster
▪ Moody Cow Jars
▪ MALA beads
▪ McHoberman Sphere
▪ Mantra cards
▪ Mandalas
▪ Mindfulness Cards
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Mindfulness Room
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Mindfulness Room
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Mindfulness Room
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Mindfulness Room
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How Do You Make This Happen In Your
School?