Helping Children Build Confidence to Make Independent Choices
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Equip your child with the skills to resist peer pressure, build self-confidence, and make responsible choices.
Plan Objectives:
Strengthening Decision-Making Skills: Teach children how to think critically and make choices that align with their values.- Building Self-Confidence: Help children trust themselves and stand up for their beliefs.
- Overcoming Fear of Rejection: Provide tools to manage the fear of standing out or being different from peers.
- Developing Self-Awareness: Guide children to reflect on their values and recognize external influences.
- Encouraging Assertiveness: Teach children how to say “no” with confidence while maintaining friendships.
Making Responsible Choices
Course Objectives: 
Social 
Responsible Decision Making
- Significance: Understand the importance of decisions by evaluating their short and long-term impacts.
- Resistance: Learn to counteract peer pressure and societal expectations with personal strategies.
- Growth Mindset: Embrace mistakes as learning opportunities to enhance decision-making.
- Self-Awareness: Explore how personal beliefs and values influence your choices.
- Ripple Effect: Assess the immediate and extended impacts of your decisions on yourself and others.
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.
Exploring You: A Journey to Self-Awareness
Course Objectives: Emotional Self-Awareness
- Emotional Intelligence: Recognize and manage emotions to improve mental well-being.
- Self-Awareness: Understand how personal values influence decision-making.
- Boundaries: Set healthy boundaries and practice assertive communication.
- Resilience: Build resilience through coping strategies and self-acceptance.
- Self-Reflection: Enhance skills for positive self-talk and ongoing development.
Mandy Mahr
Mandy Mahr is a Masters Level educator who served in public schools in the United States for 15 years before becoming an online tutor to schools with at-risk students, providing social emotional support as well as skill recovery in reading and writing. She is also a consultant for content creation to provide guidance to organizations wanting to engage and employ GenZ. With the technological advances the world has seen in just the last twenty years, it is her goal to train learners to be ready for jobs that don't exist yet. She is passionate about helping learners develop social emotional skills before reaching the workforce.
Mandy created her own or was part of the team that created the course.
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Making Responsible Choices
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
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.
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Exploring You: A Journey to Self-Awareness