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Inspiring Leadership and Resilience to Overcome Challenges

Cultivate your child’s ability to lead with confidence, manage fears, and inspire others with confidence and vision for the future.

Fearless Leader

Plan Objectives:

  • Green tick Embrace Feedback: Teach children to view feedback as a growth opportunity and handle it constructively.
  • Green tick Develop Leadership Skills: Encourage children to take initiative and inspire others with their actions.
  • Green tick Overcome Fears: Equip children to identify, manage, and move beyond overwhelming fears.
  • Green tick Communicate Effectively: Help children build skills to articulate ideas and defend opinions respectfully.
  • Green tick Foster Resilience: Help children bounce back from setbacks and adapt to challenges with confidence.

Why This Plan?

This plan addresses the following challenges by developing targeted skills

Considers all feedback to be negative

Makes excuses for their behavior

Has fears that overwhelm them

Can not readily defend their opinions

Real-Life Applications

This plan addresses the following challenges by developing targeted skills

Handling Feedback

This scenario teaches your child to accept and use constructive criticism as a tool for personal growth.

Taking Responsibility

This scenario encourages your child to take responsibility for their actions and lead by example in group settings.

Facing Public Speaking Fears

This scenario guides your child in managing stress and expressing their ideas confidently in front of others.

Sharing Opinions in Class

This scenario helps your child articulate their viewpoints confidently and respectfully in discussions.

Courses Included

Resilient You: What is Resiliency?

Course Objectives: Emotional Resilience

  • tickUnderstand and apply strategies for building resilience through goal-setting, problem-solving, and learning from failure.
  • tick Develop emotional awareness and regulation skills to manage stress and improve mental health and well-being.
  • tick Cultivate self-care habits, including rest, relaxation, and exercise, to support physical and emotional resilience.
  • tick Build and maintain healthy relationships through effective communication, empathy, and conflict resolution.
  • tick Embrace challenges and change as opportunities for personal growth, adaptability, and resilience.
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Building Leadership Skills

Course Objectives: Social Leadership

  • tickDevelop key leadership qualities such as dedication, flexibility, and communication to enhance personal growth and teamwork.
  • tick Learn to set effective goals and cultivate a solutions-oriented mindset to navigate challenges and achieve success.
  • tick Build strong communication and collaboration skills to foster trust, inclusivity, and cooperation within teams.
  • tick Understand the importance of mindfulness and reflection in leadership to manage stress, prevent burnout, and improve decision-making.
  • tick Practice leadership in real-world scenarios and learn to balance leadership responsibilities with adaptability and problem-solving skills.
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FearLESS: Building Brave Young Hearts

Course Objectives: Emotional Fear Management

  • tickUnderstand the protective function of fear and how it prepares the body for action, helping children recognize when fear is helpful and when it becomes an obstacle in life.
  • tick Explore coping strategies for common fears, such as social anxiety and fear of failure, while learning to open up about personal fears and build self-confidence in the face of social challenges.
  • tick Develop and practice effective techniques such as deep breathing, mindfulness, and physical exercise to manage stress and reduce fear responses in everyday situations.
  • tick Reframe fear as a positive opportunity for growth, transforming negative thoughts and challenges into stepping stones for building resilience and confidence.
  • tick Learn how to support others who are dealing with fear by developing empathy, communication skills, and strategies to help friends and family members face their fears with courage.
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Communication Foundations

Course Objectives: Social Effective Communication

  • tickDevelop effective communication skills across various mediums, including verbal, nonverbal, and digital communication.
  • tick Enhance active listening abilities and empathetic communication to build stronger relationships and foster understanding.
  • tick Learn to navigate common communication challenges such as language differences and communication overload.
  • tick Practice responsible digital citizenship by understanding online etiquette, managing privacy, and cultivating a positive digital footprint.
  • tick Strengthen conflict resolution skills and learn to manage communication conflicts with assertiveness, empathy, and respect.
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Emotional You: Managing Your Emotions

Modules: 4

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Lessons: 33

Course Objectives: Emotional Self-Management

  • Understand and manage emotions by recognizing both positive and negative responses and how they impact thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.
  • Develop coping strategies for managing stress and negative emotions, including deep breathing, distraction tools, and expressive techniques.
  • Build an emotion management toolbox that includes skills like emotion regulation, stress reduction, and problem-solving to handle everyday challenges.
 

Meet the Course Creators

Dr. Kymberli Barker

Dr. Barker is the mother of two fantastic young men, and they are her priority in life. She holds degrees in biochemistry, math, forensics, and psychology. She is a consultant and a professor at multiple colleges, including the Citadel, and Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. She spent fifteen years in public education, prior. Her personal focus is child advocacy and she developed the Guardian ad Litem/(GAL)/CASA program for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. She is tribally and state sworn as a GAL. Her favorite thing is being a mom.

Dr. Barker created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
  • Resilient You: What is Resiliency?

Lauren Hudak

Lauren Hudak is an educator with over eight years of experience. After graduating from the University of Virginia with degrees in English Literature and Media Studies, she went on to get her Masters in Teaching from New York University. Lauren has worked with all ages of students from Pre-K through college, but she thrives when working with middle schoolers. She believes this is the perfect age to integrate mindfulness, technology, and social emotional learning into student learning objectives. She wants to help students conquer their fears and build a better world. When she’s not teaching, Lauren loves being outdoors, traveling and spending time with her family.

Lauren created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
  • FearLESS: Building Brave Young Hearts

Ashley Valentine

Ashley Valentine is an energetic and creative teacher from the United States who has committed her career to facilitating engaging and unique experiences for learners. She has presented at technology conferences, attended international learning summits, and is deeply passionate about ensuring that learning is both fun and meaningful. She has incorporated escape rooms, social media, experiential learning models, and hands-on techniques to engage Generation Z and prepare for Generation Alpha. An avid learner herself, Ashley holds two degrees in education and engages regularly in professional development so that she can build upon strategies and be responsive to student needs.

Ashley created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
  • Building Leadership Skills
  • Communication Foundations