YOU GOOD? YOU GOOD!
Build your emotional toolbox and
empower tamariki to flourish.
In a world of increasing uncertainty, more and more tamariki are affected by stress and anxiety. As a teacher, social worker, youth mentor, or sports coach, you may feel ill-equipped to support children effectively, lacking the confidence to help them navigate big emotions. This can lead to disengagement and challenging behaviours, making it harder for tamariki to learn and thrive.
Building Emotional Resilience is designed to empower tamariki with the knowledge and skills to identify, understand, and manage their emotions — strengthening their resilience and wellbeing. This programme offers a guided learning experience that is easy to follow and implement, so you can support tamariki with compassion and confidence.
Designed in partnership with Maori and Pacific Educators
Our programme uses an approach that interweaves Te Ao Māori, neuroscience and embodied learning activities. It incorporates Dr Mason Durie’s Te Whare Tapa Wha model, promoting physical, spiritual, and mental wellbeing and family.
Participating kaiako/teachers will complete our programme more able to provide a consistent model for students to look after their own wellbeing based on te ao Māori insights on hauora and whakataukī.
Who Is This Programme For?
This programme benefits all child-centred professionals and social service agencies
supporting tamariki aged 8-12 and their whānau.
What to expect
Insights into language patterns to improve behaviour, learning and communication.
Explanations of the structure of the brain and a neuroscience context for understanding student behaviour.
Small group mahi and experiential activities to provide ākonga with a better understanding of their well-being and how to manage it.
Facilitated discussion to feel more agentic in supporting students who may not realise they can impact their own wellbeing.
Practical and drama-based activities with discussion opportunities to keep learning interactive.
We you'll learn
Promoting Personal Wellbeing
When acknowledged and managed effectively, understand the contribution emotions make to personal wellbeing.
Managing Anxiety
We break down the overwhelming concept of 'stress', helping students better understand and manage their anxieties.
Self-Calming Techniques
Equip students with practical strategies to manage stress and anxiety, promoting mental well-being and resilience.
Promoting Upstanding Behaviour
Encourage students to stand against bullying and support those in need, fostering empathy and respect within the classroom.
Course Overview
Module 1: Emotional Building Blocks
Develop self-awareness and empathy through active listening.
Use neuro-linguistic programming practices to encourage positive behaviours.
Draw on the strength of the collective through whānau and whakapapa.
Module 2: Understanding Emotions
Explore how the brain processes sensory information.
Understand how emotions influence thoughts, choices, and behaviours.
Build an emotional toolkit using visualisation techniques and gratitude practices.
Module 3: Managing Emotions
Apply mindfulness to observe thoughts and emotions as they arise.
Explore the nature of anxiety and the useful information it can provide.
Develop simple, effective strategies for emotional regulation.
Practice supporting peers using these strategies to embed learning.
"Doing these programmes gave us the space and time to be more real together and gave the students opportunities to help each other out. As the students understood that their classmates cared for them when they shared various emotions they felt more deeply connected, and as you know, connectedness is the state of being on which all true and personally meaningful learning depends."
Eve Tonkin
School Principal
"If I had the power, I would introduce emotional literacy as an across-the-board topic within the curriculum at primary schools. That would be the ultimate ambulance at the top of the cliff, and it would begin to address our rates of suicide, violent crime, criminal offending, and drug abuse that occur later in life."
Dr Paul Woods
Psychologist
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