Program: Online Courses
Audience: Educators K-12
Dates: 9/16/2022 to 11/11/2022
New "Do you work with children whose anxiety is overwhelming them? Who shy away from participating in new activities or taking on challenges because they are afraid to fail? Whose behavior can be confusing and difficult to handle? Do you worry about your students choosing harmful coping mechanisms as they struggle with the stress of their lives?
This course addresses the most pressing topics affecting children and teens today. We explore embodied and effective ways to prepare children for anxiety-producing situations, navigate stress, reduce overwhelm and reactivity, and harness their capacity for self-compassion.
If you are a teacher, caregiver, or any adult who finds anxiety impacting the children in your care, you know that when children can't cope, challenges become stressors, and anxiety replaces anticipation. Our kids can't enjoy childhood to the fullest, their learning suffers, and their long-term resilience is compromised. Children often get the message that their anxiety is something to get rid of or push away, but like all emotions our anxiety has a job to do.
You'll walk away with a new framework for relating to anxiety, along with concrete practices to help children learn to access their inner resources, calm their anxiety, transform their relationship to stress, and thrive even when life is challenging.
The class meets in real time on Fridays for discussion and activities that help support learning and enhance the practices and approaches taught in the course. In between the live sessions, you work independently through the eight-week curriculum. All participants will have access to recordings of the livestream, and the ability to submit questions in advance.
Content will be relevant for children up through the teen years, and you may just find some practical applications for navigating your own worries as well. "