This course teaches you how to use meditation to maximise your productivity, develop your creativity and achieve your goals while staying calm, focused and positive. It can be used for your work and personal goals.

You will learn how to relax and focus your attention. You stay firmly on course, but it feels exhilarating or calm, instead of being stressful. Mastering how to stay on topic, you’ll learn how to visualise yourself achieving your goals. Moving from intention to belief in yourself, your mind will rewire to relax and release stress allowing your talents to flow naturally.

You should take this class if you want to be more productive through using the power of your mind. It will also help you relax so you can enjoy working as well as your down-time. If you like science-backed approaches to effectiveness, then this is for you since everything is grounded in the published research of neuroscience and practical psychology.

You can reuse the methods taught over again for each new goal, or set of objectives, to progress your work, your professionalism, and your personal development.

This class is for busy, creative professionals who could use a little help turning great ideas into completed tasks and delivered content. Equally it will suit those who want to get that little bit better at everything they do.

Meditation for Productivity - image 1 - student project

About the Teacher

Martin qualified as a meditation teacher with the British School of Meditation.

He runs retreats and courses teaching a variety of meditation approaches to help people realise their full potential. Martin uses science-backed methods combining the wisdom traditions with modern research on how the mind works.

Class Project

You will create a daily meditation plan for your business and personal goals. Then you will match the meditation tools you are learning to your productivity schedule, selecting the ones you like best. It's all explained in the course.

You will log your progress and use your new skills to become more productive as you progress through the course. So you learn by doing and you get the benefits right away.

Share your progress and ask questions whenever you wish. And feel free to ask for help or feedback which you can do in the project or discussion sections.

And if you like, you can use your design and writing skills to create an attractive plan that you really enjoy coming back to.

Class Planning Template

Your name:

Martin Zetter

How to use this template: Make a copy (File > Make a Copy) or click this link for a shortcut. You can also print it out and complete the document by hand.

What’s inside: Class Details Outline: For planning your class title, class description, and project description.

Video Lessons Outline: For planning your lessons before you film.

Publishing Checklist: Make sure your class meets our Class Quality Guidelines, as well as other recommendations.

Class Marketing Plan: Set a campaign goal and publishing schedule for promoting your class.

Shot List: Optional resource to keep track of shots while filming.

Scratchpad: For ideas, to-dos, or anything else related to your class

Tip: We’ve linked articles from our Teacher Help Center throughout this template to help you through the process of creating a class. If you’ve never created a class on Skillshare before, Get Started With Teaching is a great place to start!

Class Details Outline

Help students discover your class on our platform and better understand what they’ll learn, what they’ll need, and what to expect.

Class Title

Keep your title between 30 and 70 characters. ● Include relevant keywords. ● Use proper capitalization.

Review Give Your Class a Title for tips and examples on how to draft a strong and focused title.

Meditation for Productivity

Class Description

Provide an overview of your class. ● Define the class’s value proposition. ● Format for readability.

Review Write Your Class Description for a suggestion of what to include here and see a few examples.

This course teaches you how to use meditation to maximize your productivity, develop your creativity and achieve goals while staying calm, focused and positive.

You will learn how to relax and focus your attention. Mastering how to stay on topic, you’ll learn how to visualize yourself achieving your goals. Moving from intention to belief in yourself, your mind will rewire to relax and release stress allowing your talents to flow naturally.

You should take this class if you want to be more productive through using the power of your mind. It will also help you relax so you can enjoy both working and down-time. If you like science-backed approaches to effectiveness, then this is for you.

This class is for busy, creative professionals who could use a little help turning great ideas into completed tasks and delivered content.

Project Description

Practice or demonstrate a learned skill. ● Detail the steps. ● Add supporting resources.

Review Craft Your Class Project to learn more about how to craft a relevant and engaging project.

Class Project

You will create a daily meditation plan for your business and personal goals. Then you will match the meditation tools you are learning to your productivity schedule, selecting the ones you like best. It's all explained in the course.

You will log your progress and use your new skills to become more productive as you progress through the course. So you learn by doing and get the benefits right away.

Share your progress and ask questions whenever you wish. And feel free to ask for help or feedback which you can do in the project or discussion sections.

And if you like, you can use your design and writing skills to create an attractive plan that you really enjoy coming back to.

Tip: Once you get closer to publishing your class we encourage you to revisit your Class Title, Class Description, and Project Description and ensure they are optimized for discoverability and SEO. Refer to Class Merchandising and SEO and Category, Class Skills, Level, and Language Settings for tips and guidelines.

Also, we highly recommend giving all of your written copy a thorough proofread before publishing. Running your written text through a spellchecker can also help — Grammarly’s free online tool is pretty robust.

Video Lessons Outline

Skillshare classes, on average, include 20-60 minutes of pre-recorded video content broken down into a series of short, 2- to 8-minute videos.

In addition to your talking points and key concepts for each lesson, you’ll want to note:

Lesson Title The title of your lesson.

Video Format How you’ll primarily film that lesson (talking head, slide presentation, screencast, or physical demonstration).

Media & Visuals What assets and other media you’ll need to create or collect for the lesson.

Lesson Length An estimate of how long the lesson will be.

Tip: In addition to the linked Help Center articles throughout this section, you may find the following articles helpful:

● Teach With Confidence for tips on how to get comfortable on camera and ways to show your authentic self in your lessons.

● Prepare to Film for suggestions on what visuals or other assets you might need to prepare for film day.

Intro Video

No more than 2 minutes in length, your intro should share a bit about you and your background. You should also provide a brief overview of what you'll be teaching, and outline what students will learn and why your class is important.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Intro Video

Lesson Title:

Why Take This Course?

Video Format:

Talking Head with video clips

Media & Visuals:

B-roll for context / TEXT on SCREEN

Lesson Length:

2m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

What the class is about & Why do the class

What you will learn and what you can expect

Who it’s for and who it’s not for!

What you will need

How it works

Teacher background, experience with the class topic & mini-bio

Project Video

Take some time to explain the project and what students will submit.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Project Video

Lesson Title:

Project Guide

Video Format:

Talking Head with Slides

Media & Visuals:

B-roll slides explain

Lesson Length:

5-10m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

How to create a daily meditation plan from your goals

How to match meditation tools to your productivity schedule

Logging your progress and identifying improvements

Lesson 1

Each video lesson should focus on one core concept or technique.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Class Lessons

● Lesson Delivery Tips

Lesson Title:

Focus Meditation

Video Format:

Talking Head with Slides

Media & Visuals:

B-roll slides & video clips / TEXT on SCREEN

Lesson Length:

8m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Posture

Focus Meditation / Stay on Topic

Distractions: how to make them your friend!

Lesson 2

Each video lesson should focus on one core concept or technique.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Class Lessons

● Lesson Delivery Tips

Lesson Title:

Goals and How to Format Them

Video Format:

Talking Head with Slides

Media & Visuals:

Slides to .png / TEXT on SCREEN

Lesson Length:

5-8m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

SMART

Visualizing

- enjoying BENEFITS

- DOING the Process a) successfully b) with Ease c) enjoying it

Lesson 3

Each video lesson should focus on one core concept or technique.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Class Lessons

● Lesson Delivery Tips

Lesson Title:

Visualizing Let’s Go

Video Format:

Talking Head with Slides

Media & Visuals:

Slides to .png / TEXT on SCREEN

Lesson Length:

5-10m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Teach yourself to visualize

Exercises

Lesson 4

Each video lesson should focus on one core concept or technique.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Class Lessons

● Lesson Delivery Tips

Lesson Title:

Visualizing and FEEL

Video Format:

Talking Head with Slides

Media & Visuals:

Slides to .png / TEXT on SCREEN

Lesson Length:

5-10m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Visualizing your goals

How to detail

How to FEEL [Focus Experience Emotion Let-go] - concept explanation

Lesson 5

Each video lesson should focus on one core concept or technique.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Class Lessons

● Lesson Delivery Tips

Lesson Title:

Your Daily Goals Meditation

Video Format:

Talking Head with Slides

Media & Visuals:

TEXT on SCREEN

Lesson Length:

5-10m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Converting Goals to Visualizing Content

Length

Repetition

FEEL - all factors

Lesson 6

Each video lesson should focus on one core concept or technique.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Class Lessons

● Lesson Delivery Tips

Lesson Title:

Reviewing Your Visualizing

Video Format:

Talking Head with Slides

Media & Visuals:

TEXT on SCREEN

Lesson Length:

4-5m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

How did it feel? Fun? Boring?

What? Colour? Temperature? Motion? Sound? Speed fast/ slow/ variable?

Tip: Need to add more fields to plan your lessons? Just highlight the entire Lesson block above, copy it, and paste it as many times as you need below this tip box.

Conclusion Video Lesson 7

The last video in your class! Summarize key takeaways and encourage your students to post their projects to the Project Gallery. Don’t forget any final reminders, such as asking students to leave you a review or follow you on Skillshare.

Helpful Resources:

● Planning Your Conclusion Video

Lesson Title:

Putting It All Together

Video Format:

Talking Head with Video Clips

Media & Visuals:

B-roll video clips / TEXT on SCREEN

Lesson Length:

3-5m

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Road Testing

Review & amend the meditation

Summary of what you learnt

Daily Practice Tips

Relaunch and Renew

Help going forward - next course(?)

Tip: If you’ve never produced video content before, filming and editing your own class for the first time might feel intimidating. But many successful Skillshare teachers create stunning content, at home, all on their own. Review our articles in Film & Edit Your Class Videos to help you prepare your space for filming, get confident on camera, film your content, and edit your footage into polished lessons.

Publishing Checklist

While Get Started With Teaching is an overview of the class creation process, we’ve assembled this checklist to ensure your class meets our Class Quality Guidelines (required criteria) in addition to our other recommendations for a high-quality class.

Video Lessons

● Your class must include at least 10 minutes of video content.

● Required

● Your video lessons are 2–8 minutes in length.

● Recommended

● The first lesson in your class is an introduction video that should:

● Clearly explain what the class is about.

● Let students know what they’re about to learn and what they can expect.

● Provide more information on your background and experience with the class topic.

● Required

● Each of your video lessons has a clear title that reflects the content of the lesson.

● Required

● Each class or video section is uploaded once.

● Required

● Each lesson focuses on a single concept.

● Recommended

● You’ve used proper capitalization on your lesson titles and removed numbers and symbols.

● Recommended

● The audio in your class is clear and easy to understand. It is free of distracting background noises, such as hums, fuzziness, crackling, or echoes.

● Required

● Your audio syncs with your video footage and comes out of both channels.

● Required

● Your video is high resolution (1080p) and shot with a steady camera, clear lighting, and framing.

● Required

● Screencasts, images, and text are sharp, not blurry or pixelated.

● Required

● Video lessons include a variety of visuals and/or visual formats.

● Required

● Talking head shots are decently lit with professional backdrops.

● Required

● Slides and supporting graphics are well-structured and visually appealing.

● Required

● Rambling and excessive pauses have been edited out.

● Required

● Your video lessons include narration throughout as you share your expertise through tips, best practices, concepts, and/or examples that are your own.

● Required

● You’ve incorporated examples and stories to keep students engaged.

● Recommended

● Your class cover image is a high-resolution (1280x720) and visually compelling image that clearly depicts what your class is about.

● Required

Class Details

● Your class’s title is under 70 characters. It is clear, descriptive, and includes at least one relevant keyword.

● Recommended

● You’ve used proper capitalization on your class title and removed numbers and symbols.

● Recommended

● Your class description provides an overview of the class, what students will learn, and why someone should take your class. It also outlines who the class is for, and what materials or resources students will need.

● Required

● Your class description should be at least 500 words in length for SEO purposes and formatted for readability.

● Recommended

● Your project description includes clear instructions that specify what students should do or make during or after taking your class.

● Required

● Your project should define a clear and shareable outcome that can be uploaded to the Project Gallery.

● Required

● You’ve included resources, images, or additional files with the class project to make it as easy as possible for students to get started.

● Recommended

● You’ve uploaded a sample project to the Project Gallery.

● Recommended

● The category, skills, language, and level accurately reflect the class topic and expertise needed to complete the class.

● Required

Other Elements

● In addition to our Class Quality Guidelines, your class follows all of our other guidelines for teaching on Skillshare, including Restricted Class Topics, Additional Rules on Teaching, Adobe Trademark Guidelines, and Community Guidelines.

● Required

● Your teacher profile includes a photo, a title, a short biography, and links to your website and/or relevant social media sites.

● Recommended

Martin Zetter

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