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Pause Breathe Smile Teacher PLD
Pause Breathe Smile provides professional learning and development for teachers who deliver the programme in their classrooms and incorporate its practices into their teaching. Research shows that Pause Breathe Smile increases wellbeing, reduces stress, boosts conflict resolution skills and enhances self-awareness.
Southern Cross is committed to helping build a healthier future for all New Zealanders and together with the Pause Breathe Smile team, wants to equip every child in New Zealand with the tools to achieve positive mind health.
The Pause Breathe Smile charitable trust is led by the same dedicated team who have been the driving force behind Pause Breathe Smile since 2013.
Mindfulness in education is working. Be part of the change.
The Mindfulness Education Group is leading the way with high-quality professional development for educators and health professionals to teach New Zealand’s only locally developed and researched school-based mindfulness programme: Pause, Breathe, Smile.
Nigel Latta
Pause, Breathe, Smile is featured in Nigel Latta's latest series The Curious Mind.
"I have seen kids using the Pause Breathe Smile Programme first hand, and it was amazing. It gave me hope that maybe we really could do something to turn the tide.”
Seven Sharp: The South Auckland school that teaches children mindfulness
Inhaling & exhaling the art of mindfulness. Why some schools believe it’s just as important as maths.
Pause, Breathe, Smile features on Seven Sharp with the staff and children of Point View School, Auckland.
Radio NZ: “We must teach mindfulness to all kids”
After seeing Pause, Breathe, Smile in action at Baverstock Oaks Primary, Nigel Latta is a huge supporter of the programme.
“If there’s one thing I could do it would be to introduce mindfulness into every school in the country. – Nigel Latta“
One News: Youth suicide caused more by modern social pressures than mental illness, study finds
Sir Peter Gluckman report analyses the multiple factors involved in youth suicide and recommends promoting resilience to emotional stress and building self-control skills in early childhood and primary school years. Evidence-based and curriculum aligned, Pause, Breathe, Smile does just this.