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MOVE MINDFULLY: Grounding & Anxiety
November 28, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm CST
Feeling anxious? Have trouble sleeping? Mind-body practices can help!
Mind-body practices can help reduce anxiety and improve sleep. During this session find out what you can do when you feel anxious, how to decrease your stress during the day, and how to sleep better at night. Experience simple mind-body strategies you can use throughout the day.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how breathing, regulating movement, and rest practices impact the brain and nervous system, reduce anxiety/stress/distress throughout the day, and improve sleep.
- Identify calming and releasing breaths to use throughout the day to decrease stress and reduce anxiety.
- Practice regulating movement and rest strategies to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.
About movemindfully:
movemindfully® is a training and consulting company that brings the science of mindfulness, movement, and social-emotional learning into simple trauma-responsive practices that are used in educational, therapeutic, corporate, and home environments. We offer training, workshops, products, consultation, residencies, and curricula that teach simple mind-body practices for self-regulation, focus, and overall well-being. Based on the latest research in neuroscience and best practices for intervening with trauma, anxiety, and depression, our tools include card decks, posters, books, and our new app that illustrates movemindfully Breathe Move Rest practices.
Bio
Kathy is the CEO/Founder of movemindfully a training and consulting company on the science of mindfulness, movement, and social/emotional learning. Kathy holds a master’s degree in social work with over 20 years of experience in schools and was adjunct faculty for Saint Mary’s University. Kathy has trained over 50,000 professionals in mindfulness, movement, and social-emotional strategies and has partnered with the M Health University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital and United Hospital to provide trauma-responsive practices to the child/adolescent and adult mental health units. She is co-author of Moving Mountains: An Integrative Manual to Help Youth with Intensity, Reactivity and Anxiety and of the Teen Resiliency Program with Dr. Henry Emmons, Dr. Timothy Culbert and associates. Kathy has been a keynote speaker and/or presenter for more than 100 organizations and national conferences.
