Sponsored by the AISHK Parent Association, Ms Tara Bennett, a Teen Life Coach with The Wild Heart Project will run a session on Thursday 8 August @ 8:30am in the Auditorium on Having Compassionate Conversations with your Teenagers.

Session duration: 90 minutes
 
Compassionate conversations include having empathy, being non-judgmental and helping teens create their own solutions.  It can also include praising a teen on a specific behaviour or communicating your faith in their ability to achieve their personal goals.

TOPICS COVERED

RESILIENCE & WELL-BEING: What does well-being really mean?  The Wheel of Well-being - physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual. Resilience and the learning pit - the importance of failure and making mistakes. Creating the growth mindset in every conversation.  

UNDERSTANDING TEENAGERS: Understanding the pressures teens face today.  How to uncover your teen’s character strengths and values and guide your teens to use them when responding to life.  

UNDERSTANDING TEENAGE BEHAVIOUR: Why do they act like they do? How can parents handle all the changes?  What is happening in the teenage brain?  

COMMUNICATION WITH TEENAGERS: Using the coaching method to communicate with compassion, with an emphasis on how important it is to guide your teenager to solve their own problems.
 
Please register below if you wish to attend.