- Soverato (CZ) - Italy
- Satriano (CZ) - Italy
- info@associazionejump.it
about the course
course description
Mindfulness builds an entrepreneurial mindset by enhancing focus, reducing stress, and fostering resilience, allowing founders to navigate uncertainty with clarity. Techniques like meditation, breathwork, and structured routines help entrepreneurs manage emotions, make better decisions, and maintain work-life balance. This practice promotes long-term, sustainable success.
Key Aspects of Mindfulness for Entrepreneurs:
- Stress Management & Resilience: Mindfulness helps observers manage stressors without being overwhelmed, lowering cortisol levels and transforming problems into manageable challenges.
- Enhanced Decision-Making: By reducing mental clutter and encouraging pauses before action, mindfulness fosters clearer, more calculated decisions rather than impulsive reactions.
- Improved Focus & Productivity: Regular meditation helps entrepreneurs stay on task, reducing distractions and maintaining attention on key goals.
- Enhanced Creativity & Innovation: A calm, uncluttered mind creates space for innovative thinking and finding new market opportunities.
- Emotional Intelligence & Leadership: Mindfulness improves self-awareness and empathy, strengthening team relationships and enhancing leadership skills.
Actionable Mindfulness Techniques:
- Meditation: Daily, short sessions to build a “witnessing” mindset.
- Deep Breathing: Quick, deep breaths to instantly calm the nervous system during high-pressure moments.
- Structured Routines: Creating a predictable schedule to reduce cognitive load.
- Gratitude Practice: Reflecting on successes to maintain optimism.
- Scheduled Downtime: Intentionally blocking out time for silence to allow the mind to reset.
Mindfulness is increasingly considered a crucial tool for long-term entrepreneurial success, helping to balance the demands of growth with personal well-being
This course was designed to give participants the much-needed tools to do just that. All by understanding the meaning of wellbeing, what mindfulness is, where to start to practice mindfulness with children and teens and how to design your mindfulness exercises.
At the end of the Course Teachers will:
- Know about how to introduce mindfulness practice within different individual’s developmental stages.
- Know about some of the most recent literature on Mindfulness practice in schools with children and teens.
- Learn how to deliver effective and tested Mindfulness practices like: Aware breathing, Body scan, Imaginary hugs, the little turtle (tale), Coloring mandalas, the quiet after the storm, walking meditation, aware listening and more!
- Learn how to design your own mindfulness practice for your students.
LEARNING GOALS:
- develop the potential abilities like: Universalism, Gratitude, Appreciation for beauty and Courage.
- understand their own body and how it reacts to different Mindfulness practices (like deep breathing.)
- explore and observe with more awakened awareness.
- train attention and improve task completion-oriented assignments.
- learn how to manage basic emotions like Anger and Fear.
- manage stressful moments and become more resilient to anxiety and depression
Target Group
Participants can be any teacher at any level of education working in a public or private school or educational institution.
program/Training Modules
INTRO/METHOD
Like all our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant.
Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non-formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, businesses and citizens of our territory. Each local context has its own economy so it’s always useful, in training programs, to get in contact with concrete examples (experiential learning and real based learning).
We always try to connect our learners to local teachers and students to cooperate in developing innovation and networking for future projects. If possible, inside the program, a morning is spent inside a local school, visiting, observing, and cooperating in the realization of one or more lessons. The proposed program JUMP works, in European dimension and with an international spirit, at the local level and, according to the period of the training along the year and the weather, it is possible to change some sessions and add visits and meetings, in cooperation with our network of partners including schools involved in European projects).
WEEK DAILY SCHEDULE
Sunday: arrival of participants, transfer and welcome. Lodging. Depending on the time, support for a quick dinner in the city, free time and rest
Monday: 09:30 am Meeting in the lobby of Villa Gabriella International, welcome, first briefing by the organizers, presentation of the team, logistics information, gadgets distribution and start of the program. Walking down to the city center. Outdoor team building game “The Mission Impossible in Soverato by JUMP”. Getting to know the important places of the city, orientation points, traditions and cultural elements, getting in contact with local citizens.
12:30 end of the morning activity
Free time for lunch or to enjoy the beach
Organized lift from the city center to the Villa.
Monday afternoon session: 15.00-17.00 “Experience Calabria. A place to live, a place to love”. Presentation of JUMP and of the most important cultural elements of the region. Participants will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and present their activities, fostering a moment of international cultural exchange.
Dinner organized for all the groups in a local restaurant.
Tuesday morning. 9:30 meeting on the terrace of Villa Gabriella. First outdoor ice breaking game to get to know each other and create a good working climate.
Division in small groups and start of the indoors or outdoor sessions with the JUMP trainer.
Module 1: Understanding what Mindfulness is, what is not and the importance to develop body, mental and emotional awareness
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
15:00 – 17:30 restarting the lesson.
Module 2: Positive psychology and mindfulness for wellbeing
Tuesday: 09:30 – 13:00 lesson. Module 3: Outdoor education as a way to implement Mindfulness in your working place
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
15:00 – 17:30 1st excursion to develop cultural knowledge, strengthen team building and socialization among participants. “Walking tour to the old village of Soverato Superiore, visit to the Church of “La Pietà” of Gagini and exploring the narrow streets. Interacting with local people.
Wednesday: 09:30 – 13:00 lesson.
Module 4: Focus on Mindfulness practices and story telling for every target
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
15:00 – 17:30 restarting the lesson. Module 5: Focus on Mindfulness practices and meta-cognition for teens and adults. Practicing Mindfulness outdoors/in nature
Thursday: 09:30 – 13:00 lesson. Continuation of the Module 5. Practicing Mindfulness outdoors/in nature.
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
15:00 – 17:30 restarting the lesson. Module 6: Design your own mindfulness practice to bring Mindfulness in my professional environment. Improving wellbeing of ourselves, colleagues and learners.
Friday: 09:30 – 11:00 shorter morning lesson. Continuation of the Module 6. More practices of Mindfulness outdoors
11:00 free time to visit the local market which is nice and folkloristic.
On Friday it’s organized an excursion in a beautiful and unique old village and we spend there or the lunch or the dinner. The staff enjoys it and there’s a professional guide with us.
Depending on the season the excursion starts in the morning or in the afternoon. From July to September it’s usually in the afternoon-evening for the high heat.
Saturday: 09:30 – 12:00 lesson. Closing the course: Evaluation and delivery of formal certificates/Europass and admin documents.
Saturday afternoon, free time and last moments all the participants together for socialization.
Sunday: departure of participants.
TRAINING MODULES
Module 1: Understanding what Mindfulness is, what is not and the importance to develop body, mental and emotional awareness
Module 2: Positive psychology and mindfulness for wellbeing
Module 3: Outdoor education as a way to implement Mindfulness in your working place
Module 4: Focus on Mindfulness practices and story telling for every target
Module 5: Focus on Mindfulness practices and meta-cognition for teens and adults. Practicing Mindfulness outdoors/in nature
Module 6: Design your own mindfulness practice to bring Mindfulness in my professional environment. Improving wellbeing of teachers and students
LEARNING OUTCOMES
With what you learn in this course, you will be able to achieve in your pupils:
- The development of potential abilities like: Universalism, Gratitude, Appreciation for beauty and Courage.
- Understand their own body and how it reacts to different Mindfulness practices (like deep breathing.)
- To explore and observe with more awakened awareness.
- Train attention and improve task completion-oriented assignments.
- Learn how to manage basic emotions like Anger and Fear.
- Manage stressful moments and become more resilient to anxiety and depression.
certification details
JUMP certifies or 36 hours for 6 days course (6*6) or more if extra hours are needed, per day. Or 30 hours for a 5 days course (6*5).
The course can be also extended to a 2 weeks course with the options 10 days or 12 days course if asked and agreed, depending on the project of the sending organization.
10 days are excluded the weekend (5+5), 12 days are from Monday to Saturday morning (6+6).
At the end of the training, JUMP delivers a formal certificate of attendance and the team is at disposal to fill the Euro pass certification document according to the EU model template and other needed documents for reporting of the sending institution.
Costs
The cost is fully covered by the Erasmus grant. Write to info@associazionejump.it to ask for information on costs and the services provided to plan your mobility project in Soverato with JUMP.
How to apply
For info and registration about the course fill the form below or contact us to our mail.