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Anxiety At School: CANCELLED

Ticket Information

  • General Admission: $249.00 each
  • Additional fees may apply

Dates

  • Mon 19 Oct 2020, 9:00am–3:00pm

Restrictions

All Ages

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As much as school can nurture, nourish and build children and adolescents, the very nature of school means that it can also be abundant with anxiety triggers that can significantly compromise their growth and development.

Anxiety can be fuelled by anything unfamiliar or any situation that comes with the potential for embarrassment, failure, humiliation, shame, or separation – and school is ripe with all of them. School presents many children with some of the greatest challenges to their mental health, but it also presents some of the greatest opportunities to strengthen against anxiety.

This workshop is for any professional who works with or within the education system, or with children or adolescents struggling with anxiety at school. Participants will learn practical strategies to effectively respond to children and teens with anxiety, as well as ways to capture the powerful buffering role school can play in strengthening all young people against anxiety at school and beyond.

We will explore:
- the impact of anxiety on performance, behaviour and friendships at school;
- different ways anxiety can manifest at school;
- how anxiety can present across different developmental stages and why this needs to be considered when responding to anxiety at school;
- how to manage challenging behaviours when anxiety is the fuel;
- the relationship between anxiety and learning, and how to unlock a ‘learning brain;
- how to support children through separation anxiety, school anxiety, and school refusal;
- the role of sensory processing in anxiety and how this can be used to identify potential school triggers and shape therapeutic interventions;
- the popular behaviour management techniques that can make anxiety worse, and what to do instead;
- changing the mindset – why the way children think about anxiety matters, and engaging a strength-based model of anxiety to calm anxiety and build resilience;
- the neurobiology of anxiety - how to use this as a scaffold for therapeutic change;
- the effects of parental accommodation - how to enlist parental support and activate their capacity to be change-makers;
- how to build relational safety and high quality relationships, and why this is key to learning, educational engagement and anxiety management;
- the power of attachment – using attachment-based strategies to calm an anxious brain and promote therapeutic change;
- the neurobiology of compassion – the strategies that can neutralise anxiety and activate courage and resilience;
- the impact of trauma on anxiety in the classroom, and how to respond;
- practical, powerful strategies (which can be used in an individual or whole class format) to boost the capacity of all young people to weather anxiety and build courage, resilience and wellbeing at school and beyond.

Karen Young is a Brisbane based Psychologist who has worked extensively with children, teens and families. She has worked in educational settings and in private practice. More recently, Karen founded ‘Hey Sigmund’, an Online resource that attracts millions of readers each year and provides accessible and contemporary information on anxiety.

Karen is a sought-after speaker and a regular contributor to a range of publications throughout Australia and internationally. Karen speaks with an ease and clarity on this topic which ensure this is a training opportunity not to be missed for all professionals looking to become effective allies for young people in overcoming anxiety in school settings.

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