Find Your Way Around the Course
What We Will Learn
Instructions: Reflective Assessment
Course Roadmap
Mindfulness and the Brain: What Neuroscience Reveals
How Mindfulness Shapes the Brain
Rewiring the Mind: How Mindfulness Shapes the Brain
Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity Influences
Short Body Scan (UCLA Health) Take a moment to connect mind and body
The Science and Benefits of Affirmations
Constant Chatter
Monkey Mind
The Default Mode Network (DMN)
Unhelpful Thinking
Rumination
The Sounds of Silence in Nautre
Our Instinctive Connection to Nature
Biophillic Patterns
Ephemeral Art
Drawn to the Present: Patterns as a Grounding Practice
What Happens when you Draw or Colour Patterns
Loose Parts Theory
Mindfulness in Play: Weaving Theories into Meaningful Engagement
Parts of the Brain
Peaceful Parts
Mellow Mandalas
Framing Focus
Place and Part
Support Children to Build Focus, Flexibility, and Calm from the Inside Out
Children’s minds are busy places—filled with curiosity, chatter, and constant shifts in emotion. Mighty Minds gives you the tools to help children find focus, quiet the mental noise, and respond to challenges with greater calm and clarity. Through creative, sensory-based experiences like mandala drawing, photography prompts, loose parts play, and nature-based reflection, this course supports emotional regulation, attention, and flexible thinking in real-world moments.
With your support, children will learn how to pause, stay present, and shift unhelpful thought patterns—building habits that strengthen both resilience and self-belief.
Help children build strong minds that feel calm, capable, and steady—start your journey with Mighty Minds today.
What are the goals for children in this course?
To improve focus by slowing down through experiences like mandala drawing, loose parts play, and photography, helping children practise paying attention to one thing at a time.
To build flexible thinking by noticing unhelpful thoughts and choosing different ones, using concrete tools like the affirmations experience and visual reflection prompts.
To develop calm routines through repeated creative experiences—like drawing, observing, and making—with clear beginnings and endings that help children settle and stay with the process.
To increase decision-making and self-direction by participating in open-ended experiences like Place and Parts and Framing Focus, where they choose how to create, move, and reflect.
To explore how different experiences affect how they feel by noticing their responses during photography, art, and loose parts, and beginning to describe those feelings in real terms.
Mighty Minds is for adults who want to support children through calm, creative experiences that build focus, emotional steadiness, and flexible thinking. Whether you're a parent, educator, or professional working alongside children, this course gives you ready-to-use experiences grounded in sensory engagement and mindful awareness—without needing to plan formal lessons.
No prior experience is needed! The course is structured to guide you step-by-step, starting with foundational concepts and gradually building your ability to facilitate mindfulness techniques with children. Whether you are new to mindfulness or looking to deepen your practice, this course is designed to boost your confidence.
Mighty Minds includes video lessons, downloadable guiding information, and practical tools for teaching mindfulness to children. These resources are designed to be easily applied in real-world settings, including at home, early intervention, child care, school or therapy. Helping you foster emotional regulation, and resilience in children.
For the lifetime of the course, you will have access to the content. Allowing you to revisit lessons and resources whenever needed.
Absolutely! Mighty Minds equips professionals with tools and techniques for therapeutic, educational or early intervention settings. Our course aligns with Professional Standards, including Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and NDIS Practice Standards.
This course includes approximately 15 hours or more in content, including time engaged in practical experiences with the children. This course can be completed at your own pace online.
CAn I use this course with multiple children or settings? Yes, the techniques and resources in Mighty Minds are designed to be adaptable for various settings, such as home, school, or therapy environments. If you’re working with multiple children in a professional capacity (e.g., as an educator or therapist), you may use the course content within your existing role. However, you must purchase a Professional Use License if you plan to use this course to generate income—such as by offering paid sessions or workshops based on Mighty Minds. This ensures the ethical and fair use of the course materials in alignment with our terms. Please contact us for more information on obtaining this license.
