BUILDING EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE
Build your emotional toolbox and
empower tamariki to flourish.
In a world of increasing uncertainty, more tamariki are affected by stress and anxiety. As a teacher, social worker, youth mentor, or sports coach, you may feel unsure how best to support them, lacking the confidence to help children navigate big emotions. Without the right guidance, stress and anxiety 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.
Delivery Options
Choose the delivery option that best suits your professional learning needs — for groups or individual learners.
In-Person Workshop
Training: Three modules delivered over one day at your school or organisation.
Experience: Interactive learning, group discussions, and hands-on practice with expert facilitators.
Requirements: Designed for 8–12 participants to maximise group discussion and practical exercises; delivery can be tailored for smaller groups.
E-Learning Course
Content: Three hours of online modules and downloadable resources.
Experience: Learn at your own pace, to learn practical strategies you can apply immediately.
Requirements: Computer and internet access.
Cost: $80 per person
Who is this programme for?
This programme benefits all child-centred professionals and social service agencies
supporting tamariki and rangatahi.
What to expect
Insight into language patterns that strengthen communication, behaviour, and learning.
A neuroscience-informed understanding of brain structure to better understand children’s behaviour.
Interactive group work and experiential activities that deepen children’s emotional awareness and self-management skills.
Facilitated discussions that build confidence and agency, supporting students to recognise their capacity to influence their wellbeing.
Fun, drama-based activities that actively engage children and integrate their learning.
What you'll learn
Promote Wellbeing
Understand how acknowledging and managing emotions effectively promotes personal wellbeing.
Understand Anxiety
Develop an understanding of stress as a spectrum, helping children recognise and manage different levels of anxiety.
Teach Self-Calming Techniques
Learn practical strategies to help children manage stress and anxiety, building emotional resilience.
Promote Upstanding Behaviour
Learn how to guide children to support one another, fostering empathy and respect within peer groups.
Course Overview
Building Emotional Resilience
Empower tamariki and rangatahi with the skills to manage big emotions, build resilience, and thrive.
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.
Invest in your professional development today.
Don’t let lack of engagement or challenging behaviour in tamariki create disconnection or disruption. Learn how to confidently integrate evidence-based strategies into your practice, supporting children to regulate their emotions that strengthen their resilience and wellbeing.
Say goodbye to feeling under-resourced and overwhelmed by children’s big emotions, and
hello to greater confidence and a deeper connection with the tamariki you support.
There is so much amazing content in this course
that benefits ākonga. A wonderful array of strategies that
I look forward to implementing in my classroom.
Alex W
Primary School Teacher
If I had the power, I would introduce emotional literacy across every primary school curriculum. It is the ambulance at the top of the cliff — addressing the roots of suicide, violence, criminal offending, and substance abuse
before they take hold later in life.
Dr Paul Woods
Psychologist
This course is a game-changer.
It has given me the tools and confidence to better support my students’
emotional needs and create a positive, safe learning environment.
Simone C
Secondary School Teacher
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