Please Register www.sociallyspeaking.co.nz by 7th August

Workshop One: 13th August 2020 7pm - 8.30pm

Managing Anxiety and Stress for us as Adults and Parents

This relates to us as adults and parents, our own stress levels and how we manage them, finding new tools to try, and supporting co-regulation – i.e. regulation within ourselves to assist us to support our children when they have big emotions and challenging behaviours.

Working in a group setting provides parents with opportunities to connect with others who have similar challenges in their lives (universality) and to share tips and strategies with each other, thus building a ‘tool box’ or ‘Kete’ of new resources, strategies and supports to help manage stress in our own lives.

Workshop Two: 20th August 2020 7pm - 8.30pm

Managing Anxiety and Stress for our Children

This workshop will focus on managing stress and anxiety for children, and how parents can support this, through learning new strategies to assist your child, as well as being able to co-regulate with your child.

Understand how stress and anxiety affect your child and how you as a parent can assist them to reduce feelings of anxiety through your own responses to them, as well as through stress management tools.

Both workshops will include how anxiety works in the body and brain as well as physical, sensory and cognitive strategies - including sharing tips and resources that you as a parent may have found useful.

It is possible to attend only one of these workshops, or both. 

Justine Aldous is a New Zealand registered Occupational Therapist.

She has over 29 years’ experience working in mental health, vocational rehabilitation and paediatrics. Justine certified in Sensory Integration with Anita Bundy in 1994. She has worked in New Zealand and Australia with young adults and teenagers experiencing difficulties with managing feelings of stress and anxiety, and has continued to develop her skills in this area over the 13 years she has worked for Socially Speaking.

Justine enjoys working with children and young people to enable them to develop self-regulation skills utilising sensory processing, physiological and cognitive strategies.

This promotes well-being and the ability of children to engage in the everyday roles and functions which are required of them – eg to experience success in school, home and leisure activities to the best of their abilities.