Academy for Mindful Teaching International - Method Eline Snel

🇬🇧 A good intention to start the day with. 💚

🇳🇱 Een goede intentie om de dag mee te beginnen. 💚

🇳🇱 De ‘aan-knop’ doet het wel, maar waar zit de ‘stop-knop’? ✋🏻
Rusteloos, piekeren, moeite met concentreren. Elke professional die met kinderen werkt herkent het. Mindfulness geeft kinderen echte, praktische tools om hun hoofd tot rust te brengen, met hun emoties om te gaan en veerkrachtig te blijven, en jij kunt degene zijn die hen dat leert.

Onze Opleiding tot Mindfulness Kindertrainer (Methode Eline Snel®) start op 22 mei 2026 in Leusden en kwalificeert je om kinderen van 4 tot 12 jaar te begeleiden, op school, in je eigen praktijk of instelling.

✨ 5 opleidingsdagen op locatie
✨ HBO-niveau | evidence-based
✨ Inclusief handboeken, online leeromgeving & supervisie
✨ Wereldwijd erkend certificaat

👉 Beperkt aantal plaatsen. Link in bio voor inschrijving.

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🇳🇱 De 'aan-knop' doet het wel, maar waar zit de 'stop-knop'? ✋🏻
Rusteloos, piekeren, moeite met concentreren. Elke professional die met kinderen werkt herkent het. Mindfulness geeft kinderen echte, praktische tools om hun hoofd tot rust te brengen, met hun emoties om te gaan en veerkrachtig te blijven, en jij kunt degene zijn die hen dat leert.

Onze Opleiding tot Mindfulness Kindertrainer (Methode Eline Snel®) start op 22 mei 2026 in Leusden en kwalificeert je om kinderen van 4 tot 12 jaar te begeleiden, op school, in je eigen praktijk of instelling.

✨ 5 opleidingsdagen op locatie
✨ HBO-niveau | evidence-based
✨ Inclusief handboeken, online leeromgeving & supervisie
✨ Wereldwijd erkend certificaat

👉 Beperkt aantal plaatsen. Link in bio voor inschrijving.

This week is Brain Awareness Week 🧠✨

A beautiful moment to pause and reflect on something that lies at the heart of learning: attention 🌱

In education, we often focus on knowledge, results and performance 📚
But much less often do we talk about the capacity that makes learning possible in the first place.

We often expect children to simply be able to pay attention.
And when they struggle, the response is often correction, pressure, or frustration.

But neuroscience tells a more nuanced story 💛

Attention is part of a group of brain processes often called executive functions, alongside emotional regulation, impulse control and cognitive flexibility.
These capacities are still developing throughout childhood and adolescence.

So attention is not simply something children either have or do not have.
It is something that develops, and something we can gently support 🌿

Practices such as mindfulness may help strengthen these skills.
When children pause to notice their breath, their body, or the sounds around them, they are not only calming down, they are practicing the very skills that support learning 🐸💫

A meaningful reminder during Brain Awareness Week:
Supporting attention is not about asking children to try harder.
It is about creating the conditions in which their brains, and they themselves, can grow and learn 🌍💚

If you work in neuroscience or research in this field, we would love to hear your thoughts.

🐸 Free Online Information Session

Do you work with children and feel curious about bringing mindfulness into your professional practice in a way that is grounded, practical, and joyful?

Join our free online information session and discover the Mindfulness Matters, Attention Training for Children, based on the book Sitting Still Like a Frog by Eline Snel.

This training not only teaches you how to guide children in developing attention, emotional awareness, confidence, compassion, and kindness, it also invites you to explore how your own inner landscape shapes the way you show up with children.

And yes… you’ll also meet Fred the frog 🐸

📅 Thursday, March 12
🕗 20:00–21:00 (CET)
💻 Online via Zoom

👉 Sign up via the link in bio or send us a DM
👉 More info about the training on our website

This sentence stayed with me after a two-day training with Daniel Siegel.

It sounds simple, but it’s hard, especially when things get emotionally charged. And it matters just as much in the classroom.

That’s where our 4-hour workshop on dealing with challenging behaviour begins. Not with the child’s behaviour, but with us. Because we meet conflict through our own coloured glasses, shaped by history, experience and sensitivity.

In this workshop we combine mindfulness practice, classroom experience and principles from nonviolent communication. Not to offer quick fixes, but to build grounded awareness, so our automatic reactions can make space for more conscious, connected responses.

✨ Dealing with Challenging Behaviour, a mindfulness-based workshop
📅 5 & 12 March, 19:30–21:30 (Zoom)
🌍 English, 4 hours total
👉 Details and registration: via link in bio or send a DM

Open to AMT graduates, professionals interested in our training, and anyone curious about conflict with more awareness.

🇳🇱 Hoe vaak luister je écht, zonder oordeel? Zonder meteen te willen invullen, oplossen of reageren?

Op zaterdag 7 maart 2026 nodigen we je uit voor de Workshop Mindful Communiceren. Een dag waarin je vooral niet leert “wat je moet doen”, maar waarin je oefent in hoe je aanwezig bent in gesprek.

Je oefent met: meer rust en vertrouwen in gesprekken, ook als het spannend wordt,
vragen stellen die kinderen en jongeren helpen hun binnenwereld te verkennen,
je eigen patronen en valkuilen herkennen, zonder hard te worden voor jezelf,
aanvoelen wat er nodig is in een groep, en wanneer stilte passender is dan woorden.

💡 Mindful inquiry is waardevol voor trainers, coaches, begeleiders en iedereen die verdieping zoekt in communicatie.

📅 Datum: 7 maart
📍 Locatie: Leusden
🔗 Aanmelden: via de link in bio, of stuur een DM

Tag iemand die hier iets aan zou hebben, of deel deze post in je story. 🙏

ℹ️ Réunion d’information ✨
Formateur·rice en Pleine Conscience pour les enfants, Méthode L’Attention, ça marche !

Tu envisages de suivre la formation et tu veux d’abord en savoir plus ? Rejoins notre réunion d’information pour découvrir l’Academy for Mindful Teaching, l’esprit de la méthode et le format hybride de la formation, week end à Paris puis sessions en ligne. Tu pourras aussi poser toutes tes questions et sentir si ce parcours te correspond.

Une formation structurée, ludique et profonde, basée sur la Méthode Eline Snel®, transmise à des milliers de professionnel·les dans le monde. Pas un raccourci, mais un chemin mûri et incarné, pour transmettre la pleine conscience aux enfants avec justesse, et enrichir en profondeur ta posture de professionnel·le.

📅 24 février, ⏰ 20:00–21:00, 🌍 en ligne
👉 Lien en bio, ou inscription en message privé
Sans engagement. Aides financières possibles via L’Enfance et l’Attention, selon conditions.

📚 Today is the International Day of Education.

We talk a lot about new technologies in education, but the foundation is still human, attention, connection, and wellbeing. If young people are to co create education, it helps when they also develop inner skills, the ability to pause, reflect, and choose rather than react. Real participation starts from within, when students can notice what is happening inside and stay present with it.

At AMT we support schools and professionals in bringing mindfulness into daily practice, so children and adolescents can develop resilience, calm, and clarity.

We're very happy to share that our specialisation “Challenging behaviours, how to respond mindfully?” will now also be offered in English. Until now, this specialisation was only available in Dutch, and we’re delighted to be able to open it up to our international community as well.

This specialisation is offered as two evening sessions in March and is a new, in-depth training that builds on the child mindfulness training. It supports you in working with challenging behaviour in a mindful, grounded and practical way, with concrete tools and insights to help you stay present, respond with clarity, and support children, groups and classrooms when situations become complex or intense.

The training will be taught by Marianne, who, besides being a teacher trainer at AMT, is also an MBSR teacher and has a background in Nonviolent Communication.

You can find more information via the link in bio!

From Dharma Talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh on December 28, 1997 in Plum Village, France