Mindfulness and Relaxation Activities for All Ages

This practical guide to mindfulness activities provides ready-to-use scripts that readers can use to deliver calming, soothing, and grounding activities to young people of all ages, including adults.

This book showcases evidence-based scripts for activities to develop relaxation, mindfulness, self-compassion, self-awareness and resilience in people of all ages. It aims to prompt the creative development of support activities that bring forward positive wellbeing responses. It provides 60 ready-to-present activity scripts, and includes visualizations, movement and stillness games and meditations, and recommendations for creative expression to integrate and understand the experiences. The chapters indicate the age range for whom the activities are designed. Chapter Two provides activities that prepare participants for engagement in the activities. Chapters Three and Four focus on activities for younger people, Chapter Five is designed for young adolescents, and the activities in Chapter Six are designed for presenting to older adolescents, as well as adults. Through this book readers will be able to apply age-appropriate activities that can lead participants of all ages to improved clarity, focus, calmness, and an enhanced positive sense of self.

Written by a leading professional with four decades’ experience in clinical counselling, university teaching, and creative arts therapies, this is an essential child and adolescent-friendly resource for educators, counsellors, psychologists, mental health professionals, and all those who provide wellbeing care for young people, including parents.