The Golden Vine

Evie's Creating Calm Counselling

At GGLPS my counselling focus is on supporting students and families to flourish by fostering positive mental health and wellbeing through individual, small group, and family counselling.  We provide pro-active programs which provide skills and strategies for self-care, maintaining positive relationships, positive learning behaviours, belonging, and strong connections with family and community. 

 

Peaceful Kids program

Peaceful Kids is a Mindfulness and Positive Psychology based program to lessen anxiety and stress and increase resilience in children. The program has been created to fulfil a need in schools to offer all children a developmentally appropriate program that gives children the skills, practice, and support to utilize coping strategies that lessen the symptoms of anxiety and stress.  The program also involves parental involvement and commitment to supporting the strategies at home. 

 

 Outcomes of the Peaceful Kids program:

  • Lessen symptoms of anxiety and stress in children.
  • Teaches children to self-calm.
  • Empowers children to manage their own anxiety and stress symptoms.
  • Builds emotional resilience.
  • Develops emotional intelligence skills.
  • Teaches children life-long skills to manage stress and prevent stress build-up.
  • Supports children so they know that they are not alone with suffering from anxiety.

 

Program structure:

  • Peaceful Kids is an 8-week program for children.
  • Sessions are for approximately 1 hour each week (40-50 minutes for Foundation and Year 1s). 
  • Sessions include learning a range of mindfulness strategies and meditations and positive psychology exercises. 
  • Children are guided through meditations daily online via the Peaceful Kids website:  peacefulkids.com.au

 

Parental involvement: 

  • A parent session can be run for interested parents to explain the program and the pivotal role of mindfulness to lessen and prevent anxiety symptoms. 
  • Each week the children learn new mindfulness meditation and positive psychology strategies that they can share with you at home.  It would be great to give your child the time to practice these strategies at home so they learn to incorporate these into their daily lives. 

 

What you need to do:

If you would like your child to participate in the Peaceful Kids program then please email Evie Donoghue (donoghue.evelyn@goldengrove.sa.edu.au) 

 

Evie Donoghue

School Counsellor