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Teaching Mindfulness in the Early Years Curriculum

Strategies for supporting children’s self-regulation and co-regulation as part of the ECE curriculum. 
Presented By Larrissa Porter - Evolve By Choice
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Young children are living in a busy, stimulating world — and the early years are one of the most powerful windows for building the self-regulation skills that will support them for life. Mindfulness isn't about sitting still or clearing your mind. For young children, it's about learning to notice, to pause, and to feel — and it can happen through play, movement, breath, and everyday moments in your program.

ECE environments are vibrant, active, and often wonderfully loud — but that energy can also tip into overwhelm. For some children, the noise, movement, and social demands of group care can make it hard to settle, focus, or recover after a big moment. Mindfulness gives educators a gentle but powerful set of tools to help children pause, regroup, and find their feet again — whether that's after a conflict, a tricky transition, or simply a morning that has moved too fast.

Over time, these small practices build something much bigger: children who can recognise how they feel, regulate their responses, and return to a state of calm more easily on their own.

Presented By

Larissa Porter - Evolve By Choice

Webinar Duration

Approximately 45 minutes

Skill Level

Suitable for beginner to experienced educators

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What will you learn?

In this live session, we'll introduce you to the concept of mindfulness in the early years — what it really means for young children, why it matters, and how you can weave it naturally into your practice starting right away.

What we'll cover:

1. What mindfulness actually means for young children
A clear, jargon-free introduction to mindfulness in an early childhood context — including what it is, what it isn't, and why it looks very different for a three-year-old than it does for an adult.

2. Why it matters — the evidence and the early years connection
Explore the research behind mindfulness and its links to self-regulation, emotional wellbeing, attention, and resilience — and why the early years are such a critical time to begin building these habits.

3. Using mindfulness to bring calm and recentre children
Learn how mindfulness practices can be used as an in-the-moment tool — helping children to settle after busy or dysregulating experiences, move through tricky transitions, and return to a place of readiness and calm. We'll look at how these approaches can shift the atmosphere of your whole environment, not just individual children.

4. Teaching mindfulness in ECE — how it fits into your day
Mindfulness doesn't need a dedicated curriculum or a quiet room. We'll show you how it can live inside transitions, mealtimes, outdoor play, and routines you already have — making it accessible for any program, any setting, any budget.

You'll leave with some examples of simple, age-appropriate activities and approaches ready to try straight away.

Suitable for all early childhood educators working with children from two to five — no prior knowledge of mindfulness required.
Certificate of completion provided for your professional learning records
About the presenter

Larissa Porter

Larissa is a Holistic Educator who specialises in helping young people, and the adults around them, move from overwhelm to calm using simple, science‑backed tools woven into everyday moments.

With 11 years experience in Military Psychology, and currently an active high school educator, Larissa understands the realities of contemporary school environments and brings this lived experience into her work with early childhood settings, making her strategies practical, realistic and responsive to the pressures educators face. Through Evolve by Choice’s Regulated Learner framework, Larissa supports early childhood services, primary and secondary schools to build children’s self‑regulation, emotional literacy and resilience through play, movement, breath and connection, rather than rigid programs or “sit still and be quiet” expectations.

She is known for her warm, down‑to‑earth facilitation style and her ability to translate nervous system science into grounded, in‑the‑moment practices that educators can use straight away, even in busy, noisy, real‑world environments. Larissa’s sessions focus on giving educators doable strategies that help children notice what they feel, reset after big emotions and return to a state of readiness for play and learning, while also supporting adults to feel more resourced and regulated themselves.

She is passionate about normalising mindfulness and nervous system care as an inclusive, playful part of the early years curriculum, so our youngest learners can grow up with the inner skills to stay calm, connected to themselves, no matter how loud life gets around them.

What others said about this webinar:

Gave me ideas on what I can do to help the children in my room that have big behaviours to help them self regulate.
— HAYLEY
 I loved learning how simple breathing techniques can become powerful tools for children to use when they feel heightened. It reminded me that we can actually train the brain by showing children how to move from the red zone back into a regulated state. Mindfulness gives them a way to pause, notice their body, and choose a strategy and that’s such an empowering skill for life.
— BETSABET

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