peaceful kids program
Our business owner - Alex - is a qualified and fully registered Peaceful Kids facilitator. ‘Peaceful Kids’ is a mindfulness and positive psychology based program to lessen anxiety and stress and increase resilience in children from Prep to Year 12. The program gives children the skills, practice and support to utilise coping strategies that lessen the symptoms of anxiety and stress. This program helps children to build their emotional resilience so they are better equipped to deal with the day to day stresses that life brings them. The program also involves parental involvement (by encouraging and supporting the strategies at home).
Children learn life long coping skills including :
A range of mindfulness meditations and strategies
Positive psychology exercises
Techniques to lessen worrying
A range of practical and expressive coping strategies
Problem solving strategies
Journalling and expressing worries
Facing challenges and fears step by step
Preventative strategies to help prevent stress build up
Being attuned to their own bodies and minds
Understanding and recognising their own feelings
Being in the flow and enjoying more of the present moment
Children learn:
Basic theory on mindfulness and how it affects the brain and lessens stress and anxiety.
The different ways to practice mindfulness and integrate it into their lives.
Their feelings and how this relates to anxiety and stress levels.
Understanding the stress response.
Understanding triggers for stress and how to calm down when feeling stressed.
About the physical symptoms of stress and anxiety and learn how to self regulate.
Worrying and how it affects their happiness.
Different types of thinking that increase anxiety or lessen anxiety.
Creating a balanced lifestyle including lots of chill out time and being in the flow.
The aims of the program:
To minimise the symptoms of anxiety and stress
To build emotional resilience
To empower children to self-manage their anxiety
To teach children mindfulness exercises they can use for life
To build a reservoir of strength to enable children to cope with life more effectively
To minimise anxiety symptoms occurring in the future
For children to use a range of effective coping strategies
Teaches children how to self-calm
To develop emotional intelligence skills
Teaches children life long skills to manage stress and prevent stress build up
Supports children so they know they are not alone with suffering from anxiety
Research
Peaceful Kids is based on evidence based therapy and research from the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR), Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiBCT), Positive Psychology and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
The Peaceful Kids program is endorsed by the Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards (BOSTES)
Peaceful Kids was researched through the Murdoch University for Beyond Blue - Be You, and has now been approved as an evidence based school program. Research has also been conducted through EACH on both the Peaceful Kids and Peaceful Parents program, and evaluated by Save the Children for their 'Cool for School' Program.
Contact Alex via email hello@blossomhouseco.com to register for these sessions.
Where: Blossom House Co, 14 Harvey Street, Mount Lofty, Toowoomba