Guest speaker: Helping primary school pupils to manage worry and anxiety

20th November 2023 2 minute read

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Guest speaker: Helping primary school pupils to manage worry and anxiety

 

Actionable strategies and effective techniques - delivered with warmth and humour

Lorraine Lee has a background in Child Psychology, Child Development and Positive Parenting and is a well-established authority in these areas.

In this 2-hour webinar, staff from primary school settings will discover actionable strategies and effective techniques to support children to manage their worry and anxiety.

The session is packed with guidance - engaging, inspiring, warm and humorous. And the powerful takeaways are delivered in a way that makes the content easy to understand and apply.

 

How to book your place

‘Helping primary school pupils to manage worry and anxiety’ is worth 5 CPD points to Thrive Licensed Practitioners and is happening on Zoom on Wednesday 1st May 2024 between 3.30pm and 5.30pm. This includes a Q&A.

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Not a Thrive Licensed Practitioner? You don’t have to use Thrive to attend this session - everyone is very welcome. Click here to book your place.

“This has been the best course I have been on so far because it is full of strategies and explains how anxiety affects the brain and body. I have taken so much from the information you have given us.”

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After 2 hours, you'll leave Lorraine Lee's webinar with: 

  • An understanding of how anxiety works in the brain
  • An understanding of how anxiety affects a child's body
  • Knowledge of the common sources of anxiety in primary aged children
  • Awareness of responses which escalate anxiety 
  • Strategies you can use to de-escalate anxious emotions for primary school pupils
  • Ways of equipping children to recognise and manage their own anxious feelings
      

 

“Incredible training! Solidifies a lot of knowledge I already have but lots of new stuff that I can take forward for myself, my work and also to staff I work with.”

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About Lorraine Lee

Lorraine Lee has a background in Child Psychology, Child Development and Positive Parenting. She has worked with parents, teachers, trainee teachers, children, young people and athletes for over 19 years and is well established as a valuable expert in these areas. She has featured in national publications discussing the impact of technology on young people and been a guest specialist on Southern Television (ITV Meridian Tonight) and BBC Morning Live.

The impact of Lorraine’s work can be measured by the number of testimonials she receives from parents, teachers and professionals describing how both their understanding of their children and their relationship has been restored. Her passion is to help families thrive fully and to equip every adult surrounding a child’s life to understand, empower, and enjoy that child. She has a particular interest in children being enriched by their education and becoming active participants in their own learning and believes children should know how their brains work and how to use them fully.

Her sessions are filled with practical guidance on how to manage key topic areas relevant to the age and stage of the children. Her extremely informative sessions are engaging, inspiring, warm and humorous. And the powerful strategies and tools are delivered in a way that makes the content accessible to everyone.

 

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