We offer workshops for children, teenagers and parents in the private schools we have under mandate.
Workshops for children and teenagers
Emotional Management Workshop
OBJECTIVES
- Identify and understand what an emotion is
- Concrete tools to better manage them on a daily basis
- Valuing positive emotions
- Reduce emotional suffering
6 MODULES (45 min)
- Recognize and name an emotion
- Expressing and understanding your own emotions
- Action-based emotion management strategies
- Thought-based emotion management strategies
- Thought-based emotion management strategies
- Understanding the emotions of others
The primary emotions (fear, anger, sadness and joy) are addressed, using playful supports and exercises from CBT
From age 6
Main source: Ruler Program from Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
Self-confidence workshop
OBJECTIVES
- Define your self-esteem through Duclos' 4 pillars: self-confidence, identity, sense of belonging and competence
- Learn to rely on your strengths to develop them serenely
- Expressing emotions in an appropriate way
- Develop assertiveness
6 MODULES (45 min)
- Knowing and accepting yourself
- Understanding and developing self-esteem
- Tame your emotions, focus on anxiety
- Strategies for building self-confidence
- Strategies for building self-confidence
- Improve verbal and non-verbal communication
Practical and playful exercises to discover strengths and train self-confidence strategies
From age 6
Main source: Bricout, L., Chaperon, A-F., 2020, L'affirmation de soi pour les enfants et les adolescents, 2nd edition, Dunod
Social skills workshop
OBJECTIVES
- To make the child socially competent in interaction situations
- Promote the social participation of each individual in his or her living environment
6 MODULES (45 min)
- Know how to introduce yourself and use the social rules
- Feel and express emotions
- Read the emotions in others
- Conversational rules: active listening
- What the other thinks: introduction to mentalization
- Training social skills: case studies
To do this, clarify the social codes or rules and provide the means to analyze a social situation by considering all aspects to allow for a satisfactory adjustment
Ages 8 and up
Main source: Fallourd N., Madieu E., 2021, Animer des groupes d'entraînement aux habiletés sociales, 2nd edition, Dunod
Mental Management Workshop
OBJECTIVES
- Become aware of your cognitive functioning to optimize your attention, memorization and creativity
- Develop your personal cognitive resources with the Reflecto* method
- Set up a project to improve your organization
6 MODULES (45 min)
- Identify your mental learning strategies
- Integrating the Reflecto Method
- Using the Reflecto Method
- Learn to use Mind Mapping
- Multiplying cognitive treatments
- Getting into the project
* The Reflecto Method is a cognitive skills development method where students learn to manage strategies using the qualities and characteristics of seven significant characters: a detective, an explorer, a librarian, a controller, an architect, a carpenter and a referee.
Practical and fun exercises to discover and train your most effective learning strategies
Ages 8 and up
Main source: Gagné, P-P., 2004, Apprendre... avec Réflecto, Chenelière Éducation
Workshops for Parents
Focus ADHD: Barkley's parenting skills training program (by Zoom)
OBJECTIVES
- Understand your child's unique and complex functioning
- Reduce the number and intensity of maladaptive behaviors
- Know how to better manage the difficulties caused by ADHD
- Implement effective and coherent strategies
- Restore a better and more serene relationship with your child
- Reduce the stress generated by these situations within the family
8 MODULES (45 min)
- Specificities of ADHD and integration of the notion of parental coherence
- Reconnecting with your child: the "special moment
- Know how to effectively formulate a request to your child
- Aiming for autonomy and balancing family relationships
- Managing anger: the "time out
- Implement positive reinforcement of desired behaviors
- Helping your child with his homework
- Manage outputs
Parents of ADHD children aged 6 to 12
Main source: Method from the BARKLEY program
Parental Guidance
OBJECTIVES
- Decrease the number and intensity of the child's maladaptive behaviors
- Implement effective strategies from cognitive and behavioral therapies.
- Improve communication between parents and child
- Calming family relationships
- Improve the quality of life of the child and the parent
8 MODULES (45 min)
- Integrate the notion of parental coherence
- Re-establishing communication with your child
- Implement positive reinforcement of desired behaviors
- Know how to effectively formulate a request to your child
- Regulating your child's anxiety
- Managing your child's anger and family conflicts
- Helping your child with his homework
- Psychoeducation on sleep, food and screens
Parents of children aged 6 to 12
Main source: Method from the BARKLEY program
Mental Management Workshop
OBJECTIVES
- Understand the mechanisms your child uses to learn
- Accompany your child to better mobilize his or her knowledge
- Discover simple tools to help him with his homework
- Allow your child to gain autonomy and self-confidence
- To transmit knowledge in an effective way
- Developing your child's intrinsic motivation through the tools of self-determination
5 MODULES (45 min)
- Mental management and mental gestures
- Start homework with peace of mind and become independent
- Learn your lessons methodically
- Succeed in your exercises and train effectively
- Prepare for assessments and use your knowledge with confidence
Main source: De la Garanderie, A., Arquié, D., 2013, Réussir, ça s'apprend, Bayard
Workshops for Teachers
We offer "tailor-made" workshops for teachers to raise awareness of learning disabilities and atypical profiles.