Benefits

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Your child will be encouraged to believe in themselves and reach their potential.

The benefits of our programs

Resilience • Social Skills • Emotional Management

                
Our programs have been designed to meet the needs of all children and for those experiencing:
  • Friendship struggles and dramas
  • Bullying, teasing, exclusion
  • Low self-confidence and low self-esteem
  • Anxiety, worries, sadness, frustration
  • School work pressures
  • Difficult or unexpected situations such as family separations, changing schools, loss, new situations
The programs equip your child with:
  • Confidence to build and grow satisfying relationships with friends and family
  • Skills to manage life stresses better
  • Improved mental health and well-being
The Life Skills for Kids programs equips your child with confidence to build and grow relationships with friends and family while providing them with the skills to manage life stresses better.
  • Resilience is about being able to cope and manage everyday stress and challenges, without developing significant problems.
  • It is all about providing and promoting skills that protect children from the negative impact of stress from school demands, teasing, bullying and relationships.
  • Research by Martin Seligman, author of the “The Optimistic Child” has shown that children who are resilient do better in life.
  • Resilience is fostered by teaching children social skills and emotional management strategies. These skills are often referred to as “emotional intelligence”. Daniel Goleman explains in his best-selling book about how emotional intelligence is a better predictor of future success than a child’s academic performance.

Social skills help us create strong and healthy relationships with our friends and family. These important skills include:  

  • Communication skills – eye contact, body language, listening skills, tone of voice etc.
  • Friendship making skills – how to initiate social interaction and identify qualities of being a good friend.
  • Empathy – recognising others feelings and cues and adjusting interactions appropriately.
  • Assertiveness - being able to stand up for yourself in firm and kind manner to get your needs met.
  • Negotiation - being able to manage conflict and disagreements.
  • As human beings, we experience a range of feelings, including comfortable and uncomfortable feelings.
  • Learning how to manage uncomfortable emotions such as worry, sadness, frustration in times of stress is an important skill for children to learn.
  • It involves being able to identify, name and understand a range of feelings.
  • Learning how to catch feelings before they get too intense and use coping skills to reduce levels of distress (e.g. deep breathing, talking with parents, playing sport, listening to music).
  • Approach situations with helpful self-talk to manage challenging situations easier.
  • Resilience is about being able to cope and manage everyday stress and challenges, without developing significant problems.
  • It is all about providing and promoting skills that protect children from the negative impact of stress from school demands, teasing, bullying and relationships.
  • Research by Martin Seligman, author of the “The Optimistic Child” has shown that children who are resilient do better in life.

Resilience is fostered by teaching children social skills and emotional management strategies. These skills are often referred to as “emotional intelligence”. Daniel Goleman explains in his best-selling book about how emotional intelligence is a better predictor of future success than a child’s academic performance.

Social skills help us create strong and healthy relationships with our friends and family. These important skills include:  

  • Communication skills – eye contact, body language, listening skills, tone of voice etc.
  • Friendship making skills – how to initiate social interaction and identify qualities of being a good friend.
  • Empathy – recognising others feelings and cues and adjusting interactions appropriately.
  • Assertiveness - being able to stand up for yourself in firm and kind manner to get your needs met.
  • Negotiation - being able to manage conflict and disagreements.
  • As human beings, we experience a range of feelings, including comfortable and uncomfortable feelings.
  • Learning how to manage uncomfortable emotions such as worry, sadness, frustration in times of stress is an important skill for children to learn.
  • It involves being able to identify, name and understand a range of feelings.
  • Learning how to catch feelings before they get too intense and use coping skills to reduce levels of distress (e.g. deep breathing, talking with parents, playing sport, listening to music).
  • Approach situations with helpful self-talk to manage challenging situations easier.