Moving Kids and Teens from Anxiety to Resilience
Free Parent Presentation
Kilbreda College is thrilled to provide parents/carers with this rare opportunity to learn from Dr Jodi Richardson, an educational leader and a leading specialist in children’s anxiety. Jodi is the best-selling author of ‘Anxious Kids’ and ‘Anxious Mums’ and a respected media commentator in the wellbeing and parenting space. Academically accomplished, professionally experienced and intrinsically compassionate, she has commented via the TODAY show, ABC Breakfast, Studio 10, Sunrise, The Age, Weekend Today and more.
Thursday 2 June 2022
Kilbreda College Auditorium
7.00pm to 8.15pm
Please be seated in the auditorium by 6.50pm (entry through Gate 4 Como Parade)
As parents/carers we play the most important role in helping our children when they experience mental health challenges, including anxiety. And whether they experience the everyday variety of anxiety that comes with being human or anxiety that gets in the way of school and life – there are skills and strategies we can teach our children to not only help them cope but thrive. Now, and over their lifetime.
Anxiety is common, treatable and there is so much we can do as parents to help. In this relatable and engaging presentation, parents/carers learn:
- What is anxiety?
- What happens in an anxious brain?
- How to identify anxiety and teach your child to recognise it
- How to know when anxiety is getting out of hand
- To understand their own nervous system and a new ‘go-to’ strategy to move back into the green (cool, calm, connected) zone
- How behaviour patterns develop and lead to avoidance
- What anxious and/or distressed children need most from their parents
- Practical strategies to dial anxiety symptoms down
- Anxiety fuelled avoidance and how to move anxious kids forward
- When and where to seek professional help