Skip to content
Sign Up

Helping Children Process Loss and Find Strength

Help your child navigate grief, build resilience, and develop gratitude through mindfulness and emotional strength.

Finding Strength After Loss

Finding Strength After Loss

Plan Objectives:

  • Green tick Managing Overwhelming Emotions: Teach mindfulness techniques to help children cope with grief and fear.
  • Green tick Adapting to Change: Equip children with emotional tools to handle uncertainty and life changes.
  • Green tick Encouraging Growth: Foster a positive mindset that helps children move forward while honoring loss.
  • Green tick Building Resilience: Strengthen a child’s ability to adapt, learn, and grow through grief.
  • Green tick Cultivating Gratitude: Help children focus on meaningful relationships and positive experiences.

Why This Plan?

This plan addresses the following challenges by developing targeted skills

My child has fears that overwhelm them

My child becomes upset when plans change

My child does not have future goals

My child rarely says, “Thank you.”

Real-Life Applications

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

Coping with Fear and Anxiety

Teaches mindfulness techniques to calm overwhelming emotions and fears.

Adjusting to Life Changes

Helps children navigate unexpected changes with resilience and emotional balance.

Finding Purpose After Loss

Encourages children to focus on personal growth and future goals.

Practicing Gratitude Daily

Encourages children to reflect on positive experiences and express appreciation.

Courses Included

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.
...Read More

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.
...Read More

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.
...Read More

What is Gratitude?

Course Objectives: Mindfulness Gratitude

  • tickEmotional Benefits: Understand how gratitude boosts mood and overall well-being.
  • tickGratitude Principles: Apply the four principles of gratitude to enhance practices and relationships.
  • tickExpressive Actions: Learn the positive effects of expressing gratitude through actions and kindness.
  • tickResilience Techniques: Explore methods to find positives in challenges, boosting resilience.
  • tickGratitude Reflection: Reflect on gratitude experiences and set goals for daily practice integration.
...Read More

Meet the Course Creators

Mariel Reyes

Mariel 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.

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

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

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?

Kerry Wadsley

Following a degree in Elementary Education at Penn State (USA), Kerry Wadsley taught at The Elms School, UK for over 10 years, teaching students from 0-11 years. She taught in Key Stage 2 as well as being the Special Educational Needs Coordinator at the school. In 2016, she gained a Master’s in Education from the University of Nottingham (UK). Her passion lies in helping students to achieve their potential and eliminating any barriers to learning.

Kerry Wadsley created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
  • What is Gratitude?