Mindblown: Happy Confident Kids Blog
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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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Breath Therapy
We teach children breathing techniques in our 1-2-1 sessions and we’re huge fans of Breath Therapy Animal Breathing techniques which we use in our “In the Wild” workshops.
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Helping Children with Bullying
Bullying can take many forms and result in low self esteem and confidence, affect performance at school, withdrawal, anxiety, rage and anger. It is is hard for grownups to see children in pain or distress and this may in turn cause anger and anxiety for you. Every child has a right to be and feel…
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1-2-1 coaching for girls sports confidence
“Elizabeth’s fitness coach noticed significant improvement in Elizabeth’s confidence.”
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Parent Testimonial
“Luke has shown flexibility in adapting his support to suit my sons needs when delivering the happy, confident kids programme. He has made discussing emotions fun for him and shown him that all emotions have value, but its how we use them. We have seen an increase in communication from him during times where he…
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Five Week Self-Esteem workshop with Coach Rosie
“Thank you for everything you did for our children. They had a brilliant time and I even had a parent telling me how much it had helped her son.”
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Creative Activity to Create Conversation – Folded Cupcake Monster
When colouring the monster cupcake together we found it was a good way to talk about feelings, including the fact that sometimes we might look happy on the outside but feel cross inside and it’s good to talk about and express these feelings so they don’t explode out.
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Parent Testimonial
“Luke has been brilliant with my 12 year old son. Anxiety and anger caused him to struggle with school; and social environments. Luke has given him tools to manage this and it has made a real difference.”
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Supporting your Child Through Exams
As parents there are things we can do to support our children through, what for some, may bring feelings of feeling overwhelmed or anxiety when preparing for or sitting exams.
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Confidence & resilience building workshops for school
“The children enjoyed learning about how body language effects moods and feelings. We learnt about how to be calm and confident using our body.”
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Testimonial for Coaching 1-2-1 Sessions
“I wanted to say a huge thank you for all you’ve done for my daughter. Your work with her has made such a difference to her confidence. The tools you provided her to help her with her anxiety around school have worked really well. She has ll the posters she created full of positive words…
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Parent Testimonial
“Thank you so much. I was super nervous of how he would be. He really loved it and asked when we can do it again, so that is really positive! I am very grateful and we will definitely be practising everyday!”
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Parent Testimonial
“It was a really good session last week thank you! We have been able to draw a lot form it!”
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Parent Testimonial, Kenilworth
“My daughter loved attending Happy Confident Kids’ workshops. We both learnt some great tools/skills to use when she needs them. It was a brilliant boost of self-esteem, allowing her to explore how she feels and promoting her own self-confidence.”
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Reasons why your relationship with your child might be a struggle.
There are three key areas of the parent-child relationship. This refers to the connection between an adult caregiver (usually a biological or adoptive parent) and their offspring. This relationship involves the physical, emotional, and social interactions that occur between a parent and a child.
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Workshop Testimonial
“Sally is absolutely child-centred and I can not recommend her highly enough. She was such a key part of making our children’s event an enormous success and we are so grateful to her flexible and generous approach to supporting our entire event whilst offering such a high-quality session during her times with the different groups…
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