B.R.E.A.T.H.E. is an acrostic.
Children love an acrostic. Our minds love an acrostic.
The acrostic supports the mind to feel safe as once learnt it knows exactly what is coming next.
Each letter has meaning and holds an important place within the B.R.E.A.T.H.E. learning and teaching journey.
Each letter supports both the coach and the children to feel safe and familiar as they work their way through a whole B.R.E.A.T.H.E. session.
The most important letter is the 'T' for teaching, with all the other letters linking together to surround and scaffold these key pieces of learning within each session.
During the training I will guide you through each of these letters and show you how each of them helps shape our teaching, children's learning and, everyone's emotional development.
I'll show you how you can take many everyday resources - games, books, and crafts - and adapt these to support the children's learning, making sessions fun, accessible, and inclusive.
I have developed a whole range of techniques that simplify the teaching of complex emotional literacy and neurosciences topics, exploring big emotions, feelings, and behaviours.
I make these accessible for children as young as 5.
My thinking is always... If a 5-year-old can understand them, then so can all children and teens - and so can stressed out parents or overwhelmed educators. Keeping it simplified and accessible to ALL is always the goal.
The B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Approach works for all and has been created to be truly inclusive for both coaches and learners.
It can work for you!
We all have emotions and we can all benefit from learning about our emotions and building the skills and knowledge to work with and through these emotions in more helpful and healthy ways.
There is no greater gift than being able to support children and young people, and those around them, to weave these skills into their own lives and really make a difference to their own emotional wellbeing and their ongoing mental health.
You can make this happen!
