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Steve Orton
Congratulations Steve Orton on becoming a Happy Confident Kids Sports Coach, after he completed our Sports Coach Master Class. “Loved the session and came away with so much value, both as a parent of 3 children and a coach to others. Fun, engaging and a brilliant opportunity to learn in a great environment.” Steve Orton Steve…
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Zack George
Congratulations to Zack George on becoming our first official Happy Confident Kids Sports Coach, after he completed our Sports Coach Master Class. “Absolutely loved the sports coach master class, Miranda and Laura made the session extremely fun and explained everything in a way that was engaging and easy to follow. Cant recommend them highly enough” Zack George…
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Want to know why your kids having a meltdown?
This changes everything… View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coaching KIDS to be their own best friend (@happyconfidentkids) So let’s say a child is going on a sleepover and they don’t want to go, it’s somewhere they love going and you need them to go as you will be working. Seems reasonable.…
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Dental Anxiety – My child is anxious at the dentist what should I do?
We recently received an email from one of our clients grown-ups after a trip to the dentist, which they have allowed us to share (anonymised), so that we can help other children that might also find the dentist challenging. “Dear Happy Confident Kids I am hoping you can help me with a situation that arose…
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Glimmer Tree
Create your own Glimmer Tree. Think of things that make you glimmer; glimmers are the good things in everyday life for example: snuggled on the sofa watching a movie, jumping in muddy puddle or just being outside – see what’s a glimmer? Give the glimmer a colour in the key and colour a bauble in…
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Christmas Glimmer Hunt
Join us this December to hunt out some Glimmers (the good things in everyday life – what’s a glimmer?). See what you can find and how they make you feel inside. You can also colour in your Gimmer Hunt sheet. Send a copy of your sheet to hello@happyconfidentkids.com or tag us on social media for…
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Princes Trust Growth Mindset Workshop
Glimmers galore today ✨ we had such an epic day today working with Princes Trust, running a Growth Mindset Workshop for them. We shared a few of our favourite Happy Confident Kids tools. When you’re going on a journey, setting your sat nav matters, but it won’t get you there. YOU have to put your…
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Christmas Glimmers
Over the weekend I got absorbed in social media; pictures of amazing Christmas parties, family outings and incredible elf on the shelf creations. It’s so easy to get wrapped up (boom boom) in looking at other peoples lives and making comparisons to our own, so much so that it’s easy to overlook the simplest glimmers…
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Making the Impossible Possible
Yesterday was Walt Disney Day and a great reminder to keep dreaming big; let our minds feel free and imagine. Walt Disney had a creative thinking strategy he used with all his teams, that involved having a “Dreamer Room”, where people could freely express creative ideas, unjudged by others. This later lead to the term…
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Self Care Tool – I Heart Me
I Heart Me is a lovely coaching tool that we teach our coaches and one they then use to help children and young people to take time to love themselves. We use this tool as part of our teenage 1-2-1 coaching program and group workshops. So we thought we would spread the love a little…
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Helping Children and Young People with Distressing War News
There are currently 32 ongoing conflicts in the world, recently news coverage of the conflict in Ukraine and now Israel and Gaza have been graphic, immediate and relentless. Images and stories of war can be hard to hear and worrying for children and young people. Research shows indirect exposure to traumatic events can trigger mental health…
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Be More Matilda
Every month we run coaching clinics to support all our wonderful coaches. During our session we were chatting about power poses and coach Sally was talking about how her young clients are often inspired by Matilda and also what a great power pose she has. It got me thinking how we could all be a…
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Be a Happy Confident Kids Coach
Here goes everyone we are super excited to launch our new dates for training to become one of our amazing Happy Confident Kids coaches. Dates for our next intake for Happy Confident Kids Coach training: Become part of an amazing support network where you will be trained and have support to win new work? Our awesome…
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Become an In the Wild Leader
Your passion for nature, life experience and qualifications coupled with our training & ongoing support, through our membership, will enable you to become an In the Wild leader; where you can deliver and teach important life skills to children and young people. Connecting children and young people to nature while teaching them life skills. How…
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Children and Glimmers
Our recent post what’s a glimmer? got one of our coaches Lucia thinking about children and glimmers so we wanted to share some wise words from her… Glimmers are so important, they are the joy in life, that feeling that can’t be put into words. Glimmers are all around us, all of the time but…
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Happy Confident Kids’ strategies are powerful, with immediate positive impact.
“The feedback from these students has been overwhelmingly positive. The Happy Confident Kids’ strategies are powerful, with immediate positive impact. As a result of the intervention, we have seen non-attenders return to school and students return to mainstream lessons. The increase in students’ confidence is palpable.”
