Helping Children Navigate Growth and Change with Confidence
Support your child in understanding and embracing developmental changes with emotional awareness, confidence, and resilience.
Embracing Development

Plan Objectives:
Understanding Emotions: Teach children to identify and manage emotions effectively during growth.
Building Self-Confidence: Encourage children to embrace their evolving identity and believe in themselves.
Overcoming Fears of Change: Provide tools to help children navigate anxieties related to growing up.
Developing Emotional Regulation: Support children in handling mood swings and hormonal shifts.
Practicing Mindfulness: Introduce mindfulness techniques to help children stay calm and present.
Why This Plan?
This plan addresses the following challenges by developing targeted skills
Real-Life Applications
How this plan's skills apply to real-world scenarios for everyday success
Managing Emotional Ups and Downs
Teaches children to regulate emotions and handle mood swings effectively.
Believing in Themselves
Helps children build self-confidence as they grow and develop.
Facing New Challenges Without Fear
Provides strategies to reduce anxiety about developmental and social changes.
Practicing Mindfulness for Self-Awareness
Introduces meditation techniques to help children manage stress and stay present.
Courses Included
Emotional You: Managing Your Emotions
Course Objectives: Emotional
Self-Management
Understand Emotions: Recognize how feelings influence thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.
Cope with Stress: Use breathing and distraction techniques to manage challenging emotions.
Build Emotional Skills: Develop a toolbox for regulation, stress relief, and problem-solving.
Communicate Effectively: Share emotions with trusted individuals for stronger social support.
Cultivate Positivity: Set goals and engage in activities to foster long-term emotional health.
Confident You: Believe in Yourself
Course Objectives: Emotional
Self-Confidence
Discover Self-Belief: Understand how confidence transforms growth and relationships.
Master Positive Self-Talk: Replace self-doubt with empowering inner dialogue daily.
Celebrate Strengths: Identify unique gifts and use them to achieve success.
Take Bold Steps: Step out of comfort zones to build resilience and courage.
Learn from Setbacks: Embrace failure as a stepping stone to personal growth.
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.
Meditation Foundation: Breath & Self-Awareness
Course Objectives: Emotional
Meditation
Mindfulness Skills: Develop mindfulness to enhance focus, manage emotions, and reduce stress.
Self-Awareness: Cultivate awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to foster personal growth.
Breath Awareness: Practice breathing techniques to control emotions and alleviate anxiety.
Meditation Practices: Learn meditation for resilience and clarity under social and academic pressures.
Mindful Habits: Establish habits that promote balance and improve relationships.
Meet the Course Creators

Dr. Corina Weir
Dr Corina Weir with over 8 years of specialized experience in behavior change and pediatric psychology. As a former University lecturer, she has a passion for educating the next generation. Her role as a working mother of two young children provides her with firsthand knowledge of the challenges and importance of fostering skills in emotional regulation.
Dr. Weir created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
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Emotional You: Managing Your Emotions

Dr. Lisabeth Medlock
Dr. Medlock is a psychologist, ICF and Board Certified Coach and consultant with a mission to help people and organizations do better and be better. She serves as an advocate, solutions finder, change agent, and resource. For 30 years she has worked with public and nonprofit organizations, beginning in middle schools developing self-competence and conflict resolution programs. She has worked with over 100 organizations to improve their impact on the people and communities they serve. She has been a blogger for the Huffington Post, a TEDx speaker, an author, and has developed myriad curricula, training manuals, and self-help booklets.
Dr. Medlock created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
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Confident You: Believe in Yourself

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.
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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.
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Meditation Foundation: Breath & Self-Awareness