Description: Our workshop Building Healing and Resilience Through Play demonstrates how play can help youth regulate, cope with stress, and build resilience. We teach school staff how to utilize coaching behaviors to teach resilience including Encouragement, Fostering a Growth Mindset, Emotion Coaching, and Participant Choice.
Workshop Length: The workshop described below is one hour but can be extended to 90 minutes or 2 hours. Additional Topics include: “Understanding Stress, the Brain and Resilience” and “How to Coach Games to Build Resilience.”
Guiding Questions: How do we build resilience through play? How do we reduce stress?How can school staff create safe and supportive environments that encourage emotional expression and choice through play?Agenda
Coaching Behavior Focus
15min
Welcome/Game/Overview
Encouragement
5min
Introduction to Resilience
10min
Let’s Play!- Keepy Uppy
Choice, Growth Mindset
10min
Calming Activities and Games
Emotion Coaching
10min
Planning to use Coaching Behaviors: Encouragement, Fostering Growth Mindset, Emotion Coaching
Review and create a plan on
when to use them.
5min
Closing and Feedback
Overview:Welcome/Game/Overview- We will welcome participants and do an overview of Urban Initiatives and our&n
