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Helping Children Build Strength and Confidence in Facing Health Challenges

Empower your child to navigate health challenges with courage, resilience, and mindfulness.

Courage During Health Challenges

Courage During Health Challenges

Plan Objectives:

  • Green tick Overcoming Fear: Teach children techniques to manage anxiety and develop confidence when facing health challenges.
  • Green tick Practicing Mindfulness: Provide mindfulness exercises to help children stay present and calm in difficult situations.
  • Green tick Building Emotional Strength: Develop resilience to help children handle uncertainty and medical stress with confidence.
  • Green tick Encouraging Self-Awareness: Help children recognize their emotions and express them in a healthy way.
  • Green tick Adapting to Change: Teach children flexibility and emotional management to navigate unpredictable health situations.

Why This Plan?

This plan addresses the following challenges by developing targeted skills

My child has fears that overwhelm them

My child has difficulty outside of their comfort zone

My child becomes upset when plans change

My child is unaware of their own emotions

Real-Life Applications

How this plan's skills apply to real-world scenarios for everyday success

Facing Medical Procedures with Confidence

Provides children with strategies to stay calm and manage anxiety before and during medical treatments.

Practicing Mindfulness During Recovery

Teaches mindfulness techniques to manage pain, stress, and emotional discomfort.

Adapting to Health-Related Lifestyle Changes

Helps children adjust to new routines and health requirements with resilience.

Expressing Feelings About Their Health Journey

Encourages children to talk about their emotions and seek support when needed.

Courses Included

FearLESS: Building Brave Young Hearts

Course Objectives: Emotional Fear Management

  • tickUnderstanding Fear: Recognize fear’s role and learn when it’s helpful or harmful.
  • tickCoping Strategies: Explore methods to manage fears like social anxiety and failure.
  • tickStress Management: Practice mindfulness, breathing, and movement to reduce stress.
  • tickGrowth Opportunity: Reframe fear as a stepping stone for building confidence.
  • tickSupport System: Help friends and family face fears with empathy and courage.
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Meditation Foundation: Breath & Self-Awareness

Course Objectives: Mindfulness Meditation

  • tickMindfulness Skills: Develop mindfulness to enhance focus, manage emotions, and reduce stress.
  • tickSelf-Awareness: Cultivate awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to foster personal growth.
  • tickBreath Awareness: Practice breathing techniques to control emotions and alleviate anxiety.
  • tickMeditation Practices: Learn meditation for resilience and clarity under social and academic pressures.
  • tickMindful Habits: Establish habits that promote balance and improve relationships.
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Resilient You: What is Resiliency?

Course Objectives: Emotional Resilience

  • tickResilience Building: Enhance resilience through effective goal-setting and learning from setbacks.
  • tickEmotional Regulation: Improve well-being by developing skills for managing stress and emotions.
  • tickSelf-Care Practices: Foster resilience by engaging in restful, relaxing, and physical activities.
  • tickRelationships: Develop healthy interpersonal connections using empathy and communication.
  • tickPersonal Growth: View challenges and changes as opportunities for personal development and adaptability.
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Exploring You: A Journey to Self-Awareness

Course Objectives: Emotional Self-Awareness

  • tickEmotional Intelligence: Recognize and manage emotions to improve mental well-being.
  • tickSelf-Awareness: Understand how personal values influence decision-making.
  • tickBoundaries: Set healthy boundaries and practice assertive communication.
  • tickResilience: Build resilience through coping strategies and self-acceptance.
  • tickSelf-Reflection: Enhance skills for positive self-talk and ongoing development.
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Meet the Course Creators

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

Mariel Reyes

Mariel Reyes is an engaging and experienced yoga and meditation teacher with over a decade of experience. She holds a 200-hour Meditation Teacher Training certificate from The Three Jewels, one of the most well-known meditation studios in New York City. As a seeker and student of meditation, she has taken part in meditation retreats from upstate New York, all the way to an ashram in India. Trained in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage, she brings her knowledge and understanding of ancient meditation teachings and practices and fuses them with simplicity and accessibility. She encourages children to be playful, curious, and inquisitive when exploring mindfulness and meditation. In addition to her expertise in meditation, yoga, and wellness, Mariel has more than 15 years of experience teaching children of all ages.

Reyes created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
  • Meditation Foundation: Breath & Self-Awareness

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?
  • Exploring You: A Journey to Self-Awareness