Summary
The neuronal changes that happen in the brain as a young person enters adolescence, together with changes to their body in puberty, create a huge transformation that sees us move from child to adult. Would you like to know more about the changes that happen? How can we equip ourselves and colleagues to be the Rock and Resource our teenagers need? Join us in this workshop as we discover more about what there is to celebrate during the time of change and opportunity that is labelled adolescence.
About this course
Being a teenager can be one of the most difficult times to navigate as we move into adulthood. We often misunderstand our teenagers and can find ourselves at a loss of how to talk with and help support them through their adolescence. In Thrive we believe that adolescence is a real time of opportunity. If we can offer the right types of support in the right way young people can be guided through this turbulent time of change and supported to share their wonderful unique selves.
This two-hour webinar will develop licensed practitioners’ capacity to understand the development needs of our adolescents. Helping to understand the How To Be Strategies and the What To Do Activities to support young people to develop their social and emotional learning securely as well as providing useful advice and guidance to deepen understanding.
You will come away from this webinar with:
• a deeper understanding of how to meet social and emotional learning needs at adolescence
• understanding what relational stance is supportive and how we can support adults to offer this
• a range of new activities, resources and techniques to draw on
• a greater awareness of your own needs and resources.