Empowering Your Child: Overcoming Anxiety and Building Resilience
Explore workshops focused on helping children manage anxiety, step out of their comfort zones, and cultivate resilience. Learn tools for identifying avoidance behaviors, understanding thoughts and emotions, expanding comfort zones, and fostering positive lifestyle habits.
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Workshop 1 Workshop 1 My child s anxiety... how can I My child s anxiety... how can I help them step outside of their help them step outside of their comfort zone? comfort zone?
Objectives At the end of the workshop, you will: Get to know the facilitator and the other group members; Understand the program objectives and the concept of comfort zone; Be able to identify your child s avoidance behaviours; Understand the link between thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviours; Be able to ask your child questions to help them reflect on certain thought patterns. 3
Comfort zone Growth zone Fear zone Comfort zone https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=uTxRd8UfKa0 4
Avoidance and exposure strategies Exposure 1 Exposure 2 Exposure 3 Exposure 4 Exposure 5 3rdavoidance 2ndavoidance 1stavoidance Anxiety Anxiety Time Time 5
To expand their comfort zone, your child will learn to: My possibility zone Fear zone My comfort zone Me Reformulate their thoughts; Manage their emotions; Take action; Adopt positive lifestyle habits; Use stress management strategies Nurture and properly use their social network. 6
What's going on inside me? https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=YMKGjN67HzU 7
Workshop 2 Workshop 2 How do I feel about it? How do I feel about it?
Objectives At the end of the workshop, you will be able to: Understand mindfulness and its benefits; Help your child to manage their emotions; Understand your role as a role model; Identify your child s type of intolerance. 9
Introduction to mindfulness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NC86pJWA7k 10
Mindful breathing https://sante-mentale-jeunesse.usherbrooke.ca/wp- content/uploads/2022/08/Medit_Mindful- Breathing.mp3 11
Mindfulness, an essential tool Digging deeper The Guide de pr sence soi (GPS) is a collection of activities your child can do at home, with your help, if you d like. https://sante-mentale-jeunesse.usherbrooke.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Final-GPS.pdf https://sante-mentale-jeunesse.usherbrooke.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Final-GPS.pdf 12
Emotions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DakEvdZWLk&t=2s 13
Me, a role model? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Cp0-HDuTc 14
Intolerances glasses that distort reality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a89XHTXwu70 15
Workshop 3 Workshop 3 The accommodation trap The accommodation trap
Objectives At the end of the workshop, you will be able to: Understand the concept of accommodation; Target accommodating behaviours that you use; Replace your accommodating behaviours with new solutions; Discuss the necessary changes with your child. 17
The accommodation trap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KBGjPVQj_0 18
Workshop 4 Workshop 4 Preventing anxiety on a daily Preventing anxiety on a daily basis basis
Objectives At the end of the workshop, you will be able to: Identify positive and negative lifestyle habits; Identify stress management strategies; Take steps to help your child apply their helpful lifestyle habits and stress management strategies; Better understand and prevent parental pressure. 20
Mountain meditation https://sante-mentale-jeunesse.usherbrooke.ca/wp- content/uploads/2022/11/Mountain-meditation-1.mp4 21
Parental pressure: faster, more, better! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdtr60C6YIM 22
Workshop 5 Workshop 5 Social support network and Social support network and progress progress
Objectives At the end of the workshop, you will be able to: Recognize the importance of the social support network; Identify the strengths and limitations of your child's network; Identify ways to help your child build or maintain their network; Review your progress and accomplishments; Implement strategies to prevent your child from relapsing. 24
Map of your child s social support network 25
And after? Resources are available in your region: CLSC Community organizations Your child s school Parent help line: https://www.ligneparents.com/LigneParents 26
