Mighty Minds offers small groups groups that aim to serve as an inoculation or immunization administered before significant stress occurs, by teaching children and teens skills that will help them better deal with stress and optimize mood, happiness, and self-esteem over the course of their lives. Skills taught include: learning to recognize and anticipate stress and dysregulated mood or anxiety;
planning ahead to minimize stress; developing mindfulness and behavioral self-soothing strategies to improve emotion regulation; putting stressors into realistic perspective; and otherwise learning meta-cognitive skills to help children learn to evaluate their own thoughts about stressors. Groups are constructed of similar-aged kids and limited to 4 children/teens per session. Give your child the gift of learning research-supported behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and mindfulness strategies proven to be effective in reducing and/or preventing stress, anxiety, and negative mood... before your child really needs them. Parents will receive resources and ideas about how best to support their child/teen in practicing and expanding these skills at home, as well as a common language/vocabulary to use with their children to help prompt for display of effective coping skills.
