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Every last Saturday of the month,
10am to 1pm
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About the Children’s Resilience Classes
We all want the best for our children. But did you know that the skills, which increase resilience, positive emotion, engagement, and meaning, could be taught to children? Many parents want a well-rounded child that is happy, confident, fulfilled, balanced, kind, satisfied, loving and civilized. All these attributes are at the forefront of any parents mind, but many of us struggle to bring these skills to life in our busy and hectic family lives. We hope that our schools provide an environment for our children to learn and develop these skills, but many of us have become disappointed by our children’s achievements, their poor behavioral issues and lack of academic performance. This is not a direct fault of the schools you send your children to or the wider education system. Increasing over several years, parents have begun to place unrealistic expectations upon a school system to provide the skills and experiences that were traditionally once part of every family unit. With the high prevalence of depression among young people, the small rise in their satisfaction with life, parents need to consider developing their child’s resilience and wellbeing. In today’s world of ever-increasing change and diversity resilience, training will provide your child with essential life skills which will enable your child to thrive and prosper.
Why should Resilience be taught to children?
As parents, we have all noticed that depression amongst our children has increased, while our reality says that our children live in a world of growing prosperity and security. Depression among young people is higher than ever, and by some estimates, depression is about ten times more common now than it was fifty years ago. Depression now ravages teenagers: fifty years ago, the average age of the first onset was about thirty. Now the first onset of depression occurs below age fifteen.
How has depression become so prevalent among children today?
To fully grasp the situation we must understand how our moods affect our thoughts, and how a learning child can use their emotional states to achieve the desired outcome. Both positive and negative feelings produce different results, and each has a purpose and use, to children and adults alike. A positive mood expands one's broader attention, provides for a more creative thinking space, and a more holistic thinking process. A negative attitude produces a narrowed and focused attention span, a more critical thinking experience, and provides for a more analytic thinking outcome. Additionally, it is well documented that children with negative emotions are more likely and willing to follow orders. Often critical thinking is emphasized at school, and it is assumed that the creative and holistic thinking will be undertaken after hours in the home environment. Like analytical thinking, the specific skill sets used in creative thinking must also be taught to children. Children can then access these emotional states and start their own journey towards resilience.
Goals of the Children’s Resilience Classes
A major goal of the Children's Resiliency Classes is to increase the child's ability to handle day-to-day problems that are common during adolescence and helps children to think more realistically and flexibly about the problems they encounter. The Classes also teaches assertiveness, creative brainstorming, decision-making, relaxation, and several other coping skills.
Teaching Resilience to our children
The Resiliency Classes can help children to reduce and take control of their depression, anxiety, and conduct problems. Additionally, the Classes builds on the child's character strengths, their relationships, and how they form meaning around their personal life story, encouraging children to be in control of both their positive and negative emotions. Resilience training helps children identify their signature character strengths and to increase their ability to use their identified strengths in their daily lives. Additionally, the Classes strive to promote a child’s resilience, positive emotion, meaning and purpose, and positive social relationships. Children will work together with their family to complete real world homework activities, where children apply their learned skills to everyday events.
You can help your child to live a more meaningful and resilient life
You don’t have to manage your child’s depression, anxiety, and conduct problems on your own. I invite you to contact me to discuss your specific needs and to answer any questions you have about resilience training and my practice.