BEARS Technique Workshops
The BEARS Technique is a simple and easy to learn five step technique that teaches children in primary schools – years 5 & 6 – emotion and behaviour regulation.
The strategy is simple and practical which works in only under one minute!
The content is focused on managing emotions, building confidence, and improving self-esteem through positive behaviour change with the use of powerful language, techniques, and strategies.
Who are these workshops for?
The workshops are for: Primary school children years 5 & 6
What’s in the Workshops?
These are the topics that we cover in a half day of learning about how to have a positive mindset and control emotions and behaviours :
- Emotions – understanding and accepting them and how mastering them can change everything
- Understanding fear, stress, and anxiety – knowledge is power
- How deep breathing changes the game
- Understanding our belief systems – removing negative self-limiting beliefs
- How language affects our behaviours – using the best language to change our feelings and actions
- Changing the focus and direction of our thoughts and actions for better outcomes
- Using the imagination to build resilience and confidence
- Using better mental images to change our feelings and behaviours
- Reframing challenges by changing perspectives
- Staying in the present moment to feel stronger
How are the Workshops delivered?
The workshops are delivered by myself in schools in term times. The workshops last for 3 hours – usually about 9.30am – 12.30pm.
All children are each given workbooks to work with, which they can take away to keep for later reference.
The skills learned can be used over a long time, way after the workshop has been completed, promoting a positive mindset and healthy attitude for long term success.
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We continue discovering throughout our entire lives how independent we can be by pushing boundaries within ourselves and others. This is called positive growth and so requires a positive growth mindset of course.
The mind is a very powerful tool that we all have to steer our lives with, therefore understanding and using it wisely is essential to our social and emotional development. However, emotions can be tricky and can often get in the way of this when we feel that they are controlling us instead of the other way around.
As children grow, they will experience the whole spectrum of emotions and therefore need to learn to navigate them efficiently if they are to be strong adults in the future.
When they are young it is the key time to lay strong foundations for security and self-confidence so that they can continue to build on these qualities. The internal language and communication skills they develop, mental images of themselves and others, friendships and bonds that they begin to make can have a lasting imprint on their belief systems for many years to come.
If we as parents, caregivers, and educators can help them on their journey through these growing years with their mental health, they can learn to be so much stronger and more resilient in all aspects of their lives.
Some common external challenges that can lead to barriers to learning and development :
- Bullying (from adults or other children)
- Parental divorce and separation
- Social media
- Academic stress and pressure
- Relationships/friendships
- Pandemics such as COVID
- Child abuse / Domestic Violence / Child sexual exploitation
- Communication skills
- Child Poverty
- Child Carers
- Bereavement
- Moving home
- Poor diet/nourishment
- Neuro diversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia etc)
