Bounce Back & Thrive

Bounce Back & Thrive! (BBT) is a resiliency skills training program designed to meet the needs of caregivers of children under the age of 8. Email abeauchamp@middlesex.ca to register.

BBT helps parents gain self-regulation and thinking skills that increase their capacity to provide caring relationships and role model resilience-building skills in daily interactions with their children. Then, it shows parents how to directly introduce basic resiliency skills to children. BBT is an interactive program delivered through information exchange, hands-on activities, video clips of parents and children, discussion and skills practice. BBT uses a relationship-based, cognitive-behavioral and social problem-solving approach combined with self-regulation strategies.

PART 1 focuses on enhancing the capacity of parents to provide caring relationships and role model skills that build resilience in their daily interactions with their children.

Exploring how caring relationships, positive role models and a strengths-based approach help build resilience in young children.

Building self-regulation skills to:

• Enhance how we regulate our emotions and control our impulses
• Reflect on our reactions to stressful circumstances.

Learning key thinking skills including:

• Easy ways to understand how thoughts cause reactions that either help or hinder responding with resilience to situations
• Techniques to identify non-resilient “thinking habits” and deeply-rooted beliefs that cause relationship difficulties and block effective responses to opportunities
• Techniques to develop flexible thinking and find alternative ways to respond to conflict, problems and stress.
   

PART 2 helps parents apply behavior guidance and resiliency-building strategies directly with their children.

• Using empathy to build close relationships and help children develop emotional literacy skills
• Helping children develop a “Can Do” view through mastery opportunities, encouragement and confidence-building approaches
• Building an environment of “positivity” to enhance children’s capacity to maintain hope and optimism

Email abeauchamp@middlesex.ca for more information or to register.

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