After that I have also written the book for parents from toddlers called The Little Frog Awakes (2021).

These are published in 42 countries and 30 languages. Also for teachers and parents, I wrote the books Sitting Still Like a Frog (2010) and Breath Through This (2014). In addition to the four training handbooks used in the courses, I developed two multilingual meditation apps for children in multiple languages, an Attention Work(s) book for children, The Flying Frog (Air France uses this app and my book Sitting Still Like a Frog for the 150,000 children who travel alone by plane on long-haul flights each year), the trainers course Mindfulness in Education, and an accompanying workbook for teachers and parents. The Academy of Mindful Teaching grows into a world-leading, evidence-based and teacher proof Mindfulness training institute for professionals working with children. We’ve now trained more than 3000 professionals worldwide! We started with 4 teachers in Amersfoort. In 2008 the course at the Academy of Mindful Teaching was born. It focuses on your own experience with meditation and compassion, it helps you to bring out the best in yourself and in the children you are going to train. It is rooted in ancient wisdom and compassion, and my long experience and deep interest in the workings of the mind and the influence of thoughts and feelings on out behaviour. The program does not only work on a cognitive level but is very much based on personal experiences. To become a certified Mindfulness Child trainer. In response to demand, I also created a Mindfulness Education programme for professionals working with children.

Trainers education programme becoming a certified Mindfulness trainer for children and adolescents

During four years of intense working with children, their teachers, parents and school inspection I developed and finetuned the Eline Snel Method for young people aged 4 to 19. In the class, in the hospitals, during a private practice and at home. One thing I knew for sure: when I want to develop A mindfulness training for kids I need to do it with them and learn from them what they really needed and could benefit from daily mindfulness lessons.

The question of the school leaders resulted in a period of profound personal transformation for me. There was no mindfulness method for children yet, no point of reference to start from too but it turned out to be so necessary. 24 years later, during a Mindfulness training session in 2004, someone said: “If only we’d learned this as children, we’d have made different choices.” In the same session, several school principals asked if I could develop a Mindfulness method for children.

Sitting Still Like a Frog by Eline Snel