‘Peaceful Kids’ is a Mindfulness and Positive Psychology based program to lessen anxiety and stress and increase resilience in children.
The program gives children the skills, practice and support to utilise coping strategies that lessen the symptoms of anxiety and stress and to build resilience. The program also involves parental involvement and commitment to supporting the strategies at home.
Outcomes of the Peaceful Kids program:
- Lessen symptoms of anxiety and stress in children.
- Teaches children to self-calm.
- Empowers children to manage their own anxiety.
- Develops emotional intelligence skills.
- Teaches children life-long skills to manage stress and prevent stress build-up.
- Supports children so they know that they are not alone in suffering from anxiety.
Peaceful Kids is based on evidence-based therapies and research:
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR).
- Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT).
- Positive Psychology.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Program structure:
- Peaceful Kids is an 8-week educational program for children.
- Sessions are approximately 1 hour each week.
- Sessions include learning a range of mindfulness strategies and meditations, and positive psychology exercises.
- Children are guided through daily meditations online via the Peaceful Kids website: peacefulkids.com.au.
- Peaceful Kids is not a counseling or therapeutic program, but rather an educational program.
Program structure:
- A parent session is run for interested parents to explain the program and the pivotal role of mindfulness to lessen and prevent anxiety symptoms.
- Each week the children learn a new mindfulness meditation and positive psychology strategy that they can share with you at home. It would be great to give your child the time to practice these strategies at home, so they learn to incorporate these into their daily lives.
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Program Content
Children learn about:
- 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 stress and how it relates personally to them
- Understanding triggers for stress and how to calm down when feeling stressed
- Physical symptoms of stress and learning to identify when they need to take time out to calm themselves
- Worrying and how it affects their happiness
- Different types of thinking that increase anxiety or lessen anxiety
- Noticing their own self-talk and how this is affects worrying and stress levels
- Creating a balanced lifestyle including lots of chill out time and being in the flow
Children learn life skills of:
- A range of Mindfulness meditations
- Positive psychology exercises
- Techniques to lessen worrying
- A variety of coping strategies
- A variety of problem solving strategies
- Journaling and expressing their worries
- Facing challenges and fears step by step
- Preventative strategies to help prevent stress build up
- Being attuned to their own bodies and minds
- Being in the flow more regularly and enjoying more of the present moment
If you would like your child to participate:
Please call 7609 1174 or email admin@positivefutureself.com.au to request an enrolment form.
If your child is receiving NDIS funding to attend this course, financial approval will be required prior to commencement.
Peaceful Parent information session – contact PFS to express your interest and we will notify you when our next information session is scheduled.
Visit Website for more information : peacefulkids.com.au
Research
If you would like to learn about Mindfulness and Positive Psychology and its benefits, the following links may be useful to outline the science and evidence-based research that the program is based on.