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I attended Parenting Workshop
The Vagus Nerve delivers information from the gut to the brain. Decreases inflammation, lowers heart rate and blood pressure. It helps people recover from stressful and scary situations
Increasing Vagal Tone helps significantly with fear management
I will mentor and explain to practitioners in our setting about my aims and objectives for the children
Robbins and Callan, 2010
Research shows the most effective way to stimulate the Vagus Nerve is through
YOGA
I will ensure that everyone is on
board before I pursue my
Innovation and Change
I learned about Mindfulness at Cluster training in March 2019
I wanted to follow-up on the idea to introduce mindfulness and yoga to our children in preschool, based on previous experience
An activity we could use both indoors and outdoors
I was motivated to give it a go to enhance our Early Year’s experience
I felt we were interested as a group of practitioners to develop new skills to help our children
I am willing to learn new strategies to implement in our setting
I identified behaviour which required effective management
I hope to identify strategies to deal with behaviour as a result of change
Based on previous research, I aim to simplify and improve our practice of personal, social and emotional well-being
Robbins and Callan, 2010
During Staff training in March 2019, which involved Mindfulness training,
we learned a new technique
I acknowledged how our children loved the Starfish Breathing technique and
it is so simple to share
Use your right hand
Breathing in as you trace
up and breathing out as
you trace downwards
Use your pointer finger on one hand to trace around the outside of your other hand
Quote from Dr Kate Bartram-Brown
“Our results have gone from strength to strength and Mini Me won’t sit still. We are always moving forward, we are always learning, and always ready to accommodate the next situation. No two children are the same so we have to make sure our products and programs teach each child in their own way. We believe we have a program that ensures this, as we empower the children, we allow them to create, take charge, have fun and learn whilst keeping physically fit.”
Currently Mini Me Yoga 15 minutes a day programme for children is being taught to teachers and parents across the globe
I would like to share some information on Mini Me Yoga and why I felt it will have an impact on our children’s well being
After selling her previous business, Kate decided that she would take some time out, indulge in her love of yoga and write children’s self-help books
Dr Kate Bartram-Brown founded Mini-Me Yoga when she noticed that positive thinking methods that adults were learning weren’t being taught to children
Using her background in film and TV, business and healing, she set about creating a world in which children and grown-ups alike could have fun together
We held a class for children
Feedback from children, staff
and parents was positive
I attended a foundation workshop
I received a certificate of attendance
I implemented yoga into early year’s plans
My change was influenced by small day to day change e.g. 5 to 10 minutes per day, (incremental)
I attended a foundation workshop which outlined a 7 steps of Mini Me yoga well-being programme
I intend to learn 14 new poses within Mini Me yoga magick foundation cards, (innovative)
I will simplify the images for the children
I will use small toy animals e.g. giraffe, lion, dolphin, dog, eagle, snake, tree and dragon to symbolise the dragon breath which we love to use randomly throughout our play
Lewin’s Change model
In order to introduce a change it is frozen initially
The change has to change, therefore unfreeze it
Stop it and change the process
Refreeze it with change implemented
Political, ecomonic, social, technological, legal, environmental, competitors
Teams and motivation
Belbin's Team Role Analysis showed
I am a team worker, I am supportive, and non-competitive
I will use my skills to prepare staff
I will discuss and let them know the plan
I will involve staff in the process and be honest and flexible
I will have frequent formal and informal meetings to enhance communication
I will tune into other’s ideas, views and feelings, I hope to manage conflict
I will listen attentively and respect feelings
I will deal with barriers to innovation and resistance to change
There are two ends of the change spectrum. One end being change in response to external stimuli. The other being calmer internally motivated change
In the current political and social climate, the ability to lead the change is expected as change is a recurrent theme in the life of education
The pedagogic understanding which supports development changes in children can be used to inform leadership and approaches to managing change
(Fullan 2004, cited in Alison & Callan 2010)
Sustain, Explore, Prepare, Deliver
Yoga & Mindfulness
Parenting anxious teenagers
training workshop mini me yoga
2019
Mindfulness
mini me yoga session with children
07.11.19
29.03.19
09.11.19
24.09.19
Innovation involves change of behaviour and I felt I could introduce this when I was ‘Acting Leader’
I felt I wanted to be prepared to become an effective leader to support the emotional well-being and skills in developing all our staff. (Fullan (2004) )
I felt the staff wanted me to listen to them, to provide physical, emotional and social needs of the organisation. As a change was imminent, I felt I wanted to gain the trust from the staff and to give them time, tools and to support them to share the vision I have to implement new strategies to improve the children’s learning and behaviour
I will adapt a
“can do”
positive attitude
I will be an optimistic leader
I aim to be an emotionally intelligent Acting Leader
I will refer to the visual aids
I will lead the change
I will introduce the new idea
I will follow through with yoga
I will include all staff
I will enjoy the change
I will ensure it is gradual
I will make the yoga a playful activity
I will develop new plans to provide variety during yoga session
I will use areas of Mini Me yoga which is suitable for 3-4 year olds
I will ensure child is comfortable with Yoga
I will ensure child has choice to participate
I will discuss the procedure to follow with Leader/Committee
I will discuss cost for 15 minute session with committee - £25
I will discuss cost of Foundation Workshop with committee - £50
I will include a new Policy to include Yoga and Mindfulness on our planning and on social media – Facebook and Twitter
I will create a new website to promote our setting, outlining our new innovative ideas
I will adhere to all GDPR and legal responsibilities
I will control and oversee performance alongside committee
Kotter(1990)
Characteristic of an Early Year’s Manager
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