BENEFITS OF KID'S KILLS

- Fun and Interactive
- Engaging students to challenge themselves to become better
- Collaborative method to build solutions
- Foster better relationships between youths and people around the kid
- Using strength based approach to deal with issues and challenges
- Solution building for Kid’s rather than problem focused
- Solution focused approach to deal with issues and challenges
- Collaborative effort between youths and their supporters to get results
- Working with what already works
- Taking small steps to making long lasting and positive changes
- Effective even with children with psychiatric challenges
- Step-by-step for long lasting results

The Kid’s Skills Program was co-developed by renowned Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, author and co-Director of the Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute, Dr. Ben Furman who also has his own talk show in Finland to educate the public on how to deal with problems in a more effective and Solution Focused way.

COURSE CONTENTS

Solutions Creation vs. Problem Solving
- Understand the benefits of applying concepts and learn the attitudes and tools of Solution Focus to facilitate positive changes by highlighting strengths and encouraging in a subtle and sincere way.

Kid’s Skills 15 Step Approach
- Learn the simple to use and easy to apply 15 steps to use implement and apply Kid’s Skills in a fun and effective way to combat problems.

Building Enthusiasm and Motivation
- Build interest and enthusiasm in children, youths and students more effectively while sustaining motivation from within and to fire up commitment to facilitate personal growth and improvement

Using Strengths to Upgrade Skills
- Use the strength based approach, past successes and positive environment from supporters to engage children, youths and students to learn more.

Conclusion
- Summarising key learning points of the workshop and to help create an action plan for immediate implementation back at home, school or institution.

COURSE DESIGN

The Kid’s Skills workshop is a modular learning system that includes two days of interactive and active learning with a variety of activities to facilitate learning. This workshop focuses on building solution-focused skills and competencies.

The workshop is highly interactive and utilises a variety of methods and tools to maximise learning. For example, individual and small-group exercises with discussions on practical issues will actively engage participants to create solutions in their own challenges.

Participants can expect to leave the program not only aware of the possibilities of the solution-focused approach to dealing with problems but also with a set of transferable skills to enhance the effectiveness of the environment they seek to implement the tools in. It is also expected that participants will be have an action plan to able to use and implement Kid’s Skills immediately.

Key modules include:
- Problems vs. the Need to learn a skill
- The Solution-Focused Approach
- Building Enthusiasm & Motivation
- Creating an environment to facilitate positive changes
- Positive feedback and reprimanding

Apply EFFECTIVE and FUN - Kid’s Skills in your work as a:

Parent: To foster better relationships and communication with children and to nurture them to become more responsible

School Teacher: To creatively engage students to learn new skills and raise performance and morale of entire class

Kindergarten / Pre-school Teacher: To inject fun and positive interaction among children to learn new skills more effectively

Principal: To create more desirable, positive and effective culture to raise morale of both teachers and students

Counselor: To apply proven and structured methodology to facilitate positive changes in children and youth

Youth Worker: To expand your tool box and get better results with children, teenagers and students