Promoting Social-Emotional Resilience: Mariposa’s Approach to Helping Children Reach Their Full Potential

Promoting Social-Emotional Resilience: Mariposa’s Approach to Helping   Children Reach Their Full Potential

Instructors: Jenny Barrett and Dr. Anne Townsend

Description: In this course, participants will learn Mariposa’s social-emotional learning method to reduce stress and build resilience in both children and adults.

Module 1:
Explains the dynamics of power struggles and tension in relationships with children, the role of stress on the brain and learning, the limitations of traditional discipline approaches, and how emotional resilience develops.

Modules 2-7:
Teach Mariposa’s method for helping adults build emotional resilience in children, reduce their stress, and address challenging behaviors. Participants will learn how to:

• Understand and communicate children’s feelings and perspectives to strengthen connections, mitigate stress, and build self-awareness.
• Authentically express your feelings and needs in ways that are more likely to be heard, strengthening connections and reducing your stress.
• Collaborate with children to address problems and meet their needs, your needs, and the needs of other children.
• Reinforce positive behaviors in ways that increase self-motivation, promote engagement, and foster a culturally diverse community.
• Establish order and control that leads to increased self-regulation and mitigates bias.

Final Module:
Provides an opportunity to integrate the skills learned throughout the course and explore strategies for sustaining and continuing the learning process.

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What You Will Learn: 

• Learn to recognize the obstacles preventing you from helping children change behavior and discover strategies to overcome them.
• Understand how your communication impacts a child’s motivation, frustration, and willingness to persevere despite difficulty. 
• Gain insight into the underlying feelings, thoughts, and needs driving a child’s behavior, allowing you to respond with empathy and understanding.
• Learn how to express your thoughts and feelings to children in a genuine, non-judgmental way, building stronger, more trusting relationships.
• Equip children with the tools to express their concerns and clarify goals in a positive, solution-focused manner.
• Know when to provide feedback and when to hold back to maximize its impact and avoid overwhelming or discouraging the child.
• Learn how to give feedback that reduces frustration, boosts effort, and motivates positive behaviors, fostering a growth mindset.
• Understand which discipline strategies work and which ones don’t and how to use them to guide children toward better behavior.
• Gain the skills to choose consequences appropriate to the child’s behavior, ensuring fairness and encouraging positive outcomes.

This Course Includes:

Each of the 8 modules features self-paced components to learn the skill or concept, along with 1-hour live sessions (in-person or online) to practice and receive feedback. 

Self-paced components include:

• 24 short, digestible mini-lessons
• 6 interactive online exercises to reinforce key concepts 
• 6 downloadable tip sheets, each focused on a specific skill 
• Teacher resources, including videos and articles
• Reflection prompts and opportunities for feedback
• Videos of teacher-student interactions using the Mariposa Method

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Requirements:

• A working computer with internet access

• An open mind and receptive mindset

Recommended For:

• Teachers, educators, and caregivers of children under age 8
• Both early-career and seasoned educators