Burnout prevention through mindfulness, art and nature
6 days course in Croatia
KEYWORDS: burnout, prevention, minfulness, art, creativity, stressfree, inclusion, integration
WHEN AND WHERE?
21 – 26/10/2024 Petrinja, Croatia
28/4/ – 3/5/2025 Petrinja, Croatia
14 – 19/7/2025 Preko, Island Ugljan, Zadar, Croatia
11 – 16/8/2025 Preko, Island Ugljan, Zadar, Croatia
20 – 25/10/2025 Petrinja, Croatia
WHO IS IT FOR?
This course is for primary and secondary school teachers, school managers and staff, school principals.
WHAT TO EXPECT?
This course includes presentations, art and creativity workshops, and field trip(s). The course program includes a guided town tour and an excursion.
This teachers’ course is focused on creative expression as a tool for lowering stress in your classroom. Participants will experience the strong therapeutic power of arts through various art techniques using mostly natural and recycled materials. You will learn how to implement creativity in everyday teaching, learn more about stress and how to deal with it.
Art and nature are excellent tools to promote integration and improve communication among students, especially the ones affected by learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and students with special needs.
Participants will be involved in first hand learning through workshop activities focusing on personal experience and self-expression. They will learn how to combine art theory and practice in a stress-free environment, how to maintain students’ attention and motivation. We will inspire you to use more natural materials and to find nature as the biggest inspiration.
All necessary materials and tools will be provided for you. You can also bring all your artworks home with you. All workshops are family friendly so you can bring children with you without extra charge.
The participants will get course certificate and Europass mobility document.
The course is carried out if there are more than 10 participants.
The course fee is 480€. It includes the course program a guided town tour and the entrance to the exhibition.
The half day excursion is optional and charges extra by the participants.
Languages – English, Croatian
Pre-registration
Please make your pre-registration here. We will contact you after you have sent your pre-registration form.
Training Program:
Day 1:
- Guided city tour
- Introduction
- Course outline
- Creating mandala as a form of meditation
Day 2:
- Breathing practices
- Impact of art and creativity in everyday teaching
- Dreamcatcher – making a dreamcatcher from natural materials
- Friendship bracelet – knitting a friendship bracelet from multi-coloured threads
Day 3:
- How to lower stress in our classroom?
- Understanding the Fight/Flight response
- Clay modelling – antistress workshop
- Conscious Listening
Day 4:
- Introducing free natural materials in creating artworks
- Wind chimes – making wind chimes from natural materials
- Sea bottle – knitting and decorating glass bottles
Day 5:
- Final activities
- Evaluation of the course
- Diploma awarding
Day 6:
- Half day excursion
- Outdoor meditation – How to meditate in Nature?
- A special stone – painting or decorating pebbles/stones
NOTE: Program may be subject to change!