MACT “Happier” Workshops
The Happier workshops are intended to motivate and empower children and young people of all ages. The content is focused on managing emotions, building confidence, and improving self-esteem through positive behavior change with the use of powerful language, techniques, and strategies.
Who are these workshops for?
The workshops are for three age categories:
- Primary school children aged 8-11
- Secondary school children aged 12-14
- Secondary school children aged 15-18
What’s in the Workshops?
These are the topics that we cover in a fun filled day of learning about how to have a positive mindset:
- How the brain works and processes information – what is going on under the lid and why we respond the way we do to external factors
- How we can use that knowledge to help ourselves to be in control
- Emotions – understanding and accepting them and how mastering them can change everything
- Understanding fear, stress, and anxiety – knowledge is power
- Understanding our belief systems – removing negative self-limiting beliefs
- How language affects our behaviours – using the best language to change our feelings and actions
- Communicating effectively so others will listen
- 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
- Goal setting and aiming higher than before – staying in control
- Staying in the present moment to feel stronger
- Practicing self-love and appreciation – being kind to the self and others
How are the Workshops delivered?
The workshops are delivered by myself privately in schools in the school holidays. When schools commission these workshops they will be delivered in term times. The workshops last for a whole day, usually about 9.30am – 4.00pm and children can bring a packed lunch to have there in the lunch break. For each age group, the activities and teaching are tailored appropriately to suit developmental levels. Thus, children can understand and engage with the content fully. All children are each given age-appropriate 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.
Book on your selected workshop below!
Upcoming MACT “Happier” Workshops for Children
Happier – Primary (P)
For children aged 8-11
Course cost: £125 NOW £95
Dates
Monday 22nd July 2024
9.30 am to 3.30pm
Friday 26th July 2024
9.30am to 3.30pm
Location
Leicester High School for Girls
454 London Road
Leicester LE2 2PP
View map
Happier – Secondary (S1)
For children aged 12-14
Course cost: £125 NOW £95
Dates
Tuesday 23rd July 2024
9.00am to 3.45pm
Location
Leicester High School for Girls
454 London Road
Leicester LE2 2PP
View map
Happier – Secondary (S2)
For children aged 15-18
Course cost: £125 NOW £95
Dates
Thursday 25th 2024
9.00am to 3.45pm
Location
Leicester High School for Girls
454 London Road
Leicester LE2 2PP
View map
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)
Any of the above can lead to:
- Mental and physical stress and anxiety
- Separation anxiety, transition anxiety
- Insomnia and poor sleep levels
- Low confidence and self-esteem/self-worth
- Withdrawal from relationships, engagements, and activities
- Self-harm
- Overwhelm and or overthinking
- Fears and phobias
- Communication challenges/breakdowns
- Low academic achievement
- Depression and loneliness
- Negative/challenging/OCD-type behaviors
- Bullying others
- Eating disorders
- Fatigue / exhaustion
- Trauma / PTSD
- Attention seeking behaviours
- Lack of emotional regulation/control (emotional breakdowns/ outbursts of anger etc)
