Mindblown: Happy Confident Kids Blog
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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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What is neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity refers to the natural diversity of human minds. It is a biological fact that we are diverse in our minds, just like we are in ethnicity, gender and sexuality; neurodiversity recognises that there is not a wrong or right way for a brain to work. It represents the whole spectrum from neurodivergent to neurotypical…
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Emotional Outburst Workshop
Coach Luke recently shared with us a workshop he did with one of his young clients; to build confidence, explore emotions and help deal with angry outbursts. “I love working outside with clients, so for yesterday’s session we headed outside as the weather was beautiful and my young person also loves being outdoors. This gave…
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Finding Light in the Dark
I am sharing this story because I want to share how lightness (glimmers) pulled me out from a very dark place and teaching this to children/young people is such an important life skill. Life will always throw challenges at us and most people will experience periods of darkness at some point in life; having tools…
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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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Hold on to the Glimmers
Life isn’t always how it seems – Coach Laura gives us an insight into the “perfect holiday” they had last year. Perfect Instagram photos of a perfect holiday, weekend or day; depending on the accounts you follow we can be saturated with perfection. It can be useful to remind ourselves that reality isn’t like that;…
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What’s a glimmer?
Look out for the glimmers, breathe them in and hold onto them tight. Here at Happy Confident Kids we ❤️ a ✨glimmer✨, we seek them out. Glimmers are the opposite of triggers; they make you feel safe connected and relaxed. They are the good stuff. Glimmers come in all shapes and sizes, and they often…
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Can we always be happy & confident?
One of coach Laura’s teen 1-2-1 coaching zoom clients asked her if she is always happy and confident as a coach. And the honest answer is no; which is totally normal. We all go through varying emotional states on a daily basis. The skill is identifying the emotional state we are currently in and if…
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Preparing for Exam Results
We recently were asked to write an article for Which School on helping young people prepare for exam results. We thought it would also be useful to share it here as we had such good feedback about its fresh approach. Let’s us know what you think in the comments and please share to those who…
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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.”
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1-2-1 Children Coaching Testimonial
Sally has been a fantastic help with my daughter, she struggles with anxiety with mainly school but also other day to day activities. Sally has taught her to understand and deal with her anxiety with many coping practices that have helped her gain confidence and ultimately not feel as anxious as she was and be…
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Sarah Stevenson-Jennings MBE Interview
Head coach Laura interviewed Sarah Stevenson-Jennings MBE, who is a Taekwan-do mega star. They talked about mindset and confidence. Some take aways from Sarah were to Have a listen and let us know what you think.
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1-2-1 Coaching Session Supporting Neurodiverse Young Person
Luke has been providing some 1-2-1 coaching sessions for a young person who is neurodiverse; many of the tools we have developed and use can be highly effective for children & young people who are neurodiverse. Luke clients parents came for support as he was really struggling with emotions and having aggressive meltdowns. “This week…
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Working with Castle Nursery & Pre School – Kenilworth
We loved working with Castle Nursery and Pre-School and it was so great to do workshops with the staff, parents and children so that we can spread the Happy Confident Kids tools across the whole community. Our online workshop was run by two of our coaches Michelle (Over in New Zealand) and then Laura here…
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Parent Testimonial, 1-2-1 Coaching
“Laura has given us so many tools to help with anxiety and anger. She was very easy for my child to work with and I can already see a calmer child emerging. The techniques Laura showed us can be used for so many different situations. I highly recommend her.”
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Teen Online Coaching Session
“Thanks so much for the session with Joe yesterday, he had some very positive takeaways which was a good result.”
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