Training Summary: 

This training will help you support children's and adolescents' mental, physical, and emotional well-being through art and creative interventions.  This training will focus on managing social anxiety and loneliness for children and adolescents using three social and emotional learning competency domains: self-awareness, social awareness, and relationship skills. Through interactive, arts-based activities and dynamic discussion, participants will learn techniques and problem-solving strategies that teach self-compassion and build healthy connections with others.  Participants will recognize how our social interactions improve as we develop greater insight and connection with ourselves.

Class Objectives: 

?     Employ the use of art and creative interventions to address social anxiety and loneliness in children and adolescents.   

?     Choose the appropriate intervention strategies to improve emotional regulation, strengthen relationships, and repair connections.

?     Implement the use of art and creative strategies into existing systems-based programs.