Inspiring Leadership and Resilience to Overcome Challenges
.png?width=400&height=45&name=EM%20(1).png)
Cultivate your child’s ability to lead with confidence, manage fears, and inspire others with confidence and vision for the future.
Plan Objectives:
Embrace Feedback: Teach children to view feedback as a growth opportunity and handle it constructively.- Develop Leadership Skills: Encourage children to take initiative and inspire others with their actions.
- Overcome Fears: Equip children to identify, manage, and move beyond overwhelming fears.
- Communicate Effectively: Help children build skills to articulate ideas and defend opinions respectfully.
- Foster Resilience: Help children bounce back from setbacks and adapt to challenges with confidence.
Resilient You: What is Resiliency?
Course Objectives: 
Emotional 
Resilience
- Resilience Building: Enhance resilience through effective goal-setting and learning from setbacks.
- Emotional Regulation: Improve well-being by developing skills for managing stress and emotions.
- Self-Care Practices: Foster resilience by engaging in restful, relaxing, and physical activities.
- Relationships: Develop healthy interpersonal connections using empathy and communication.
- Personal Growth: View challenges and changes as opportunities for personal development and adaptability.
Building Leadership Skills
Course Objectives: 
Social Leadership
- Leadership Development: Cultivate essential leadership traits including dedication, adaptability, and communication.
- Solutions Focus: Master goal-setting techniques to promote a problem-solving approach.
- Inclusive Communication: Enhance communication and teamwork for better inclusivity and collaboration.
- Mindful Decision-Making: Grasp the significance of mindfulness in reducing stress and improving choices.
- Real-World Application: Engage in practical leadership experiences while effectively balancing duties.
FearLESS: Building Brave Young Hearts
Course Objectives: Emotional Fear Management
- Understanding Fear: Recognize fear’s role and learn when it’s helpful or harmful.
- Coping Strategies: Explore methods to manage fears like social anxiety and failure.
- Stress Management: Practice mindfulness, breathing, and movement to reduce stress.
- Growth Opportunity: Reframe fear as a stepping stone for building confidence.
- Support System: Help friends and family face fears with empathy and courage.
Communication Foundations
Course Objectives: Social Effective Communication
- Effective Communication: Develop communication skills across multiple mediums for clearer interactions.
- Active Listening: Enhance active listening and empathetic communication for better understanding.
- Communication Challenges: Navigate challenges like language differences to improve clarity and inclusivity.
- Digital Citizenship: Practice responsible online behavior and manage privacy effectively.
- Conflict Resolution: Strengthen skills for assertive and respectful conflict resolution.
Emotional You: Managing Your Emotions
Modules: 4
|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.
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