Embrace Positive Thinking
Your mindset determines your experience of the world and impacts throughout all areas of life. It affects your motivation and productivity and how you lead your life.
It is an essential building block to growing self-esteem and self-worth and will be the difference to succeeding at something or not. It affects our daily self-dialogue, that internal voice and reinforces our most intimate beliefs, attitudes and feelings about ourselves.
Your mindset plays a critical role in how you cope with life’s challenges and setbacks, and can reinforce your beliefs about yourself:
- Beliefs and Values
- Strengths and Weaknesses
- Judgements
- Opinions
- Ideas
- Inspirations
- Attitudes
- Collection of Thoughts/ Experiences
How to Upgrade Your Brain
There are countless ways to enhance your brainpower, from practicing mindfulness to being intentional about what you feed your mind and body, avoiding the trap of bad television and junk food.
We all know how difficult it can be to implement lasting changes and maintain them until they become second nature. Developing a habit that becomes so ingrained that we do it effortlessly, without conscious thought, requires persistence and patience.
This is why we often start strong with new year’s resolutions; like hitting the gym or taking up an exercise class, only to find ourselves slipping back into old patterns by mid-February. Those shiny new trainers are soon abandoned, gathering dust in the corner.
The challenge with relying on repetition alone is that it demands constant willpower and time. Too often, our ingrained habits resurface before the new ones have had a chance to take root:
- Rewrite Outdated Beliefs
- Change Your Language
- Use Mindfulness, Meditation and Affirmations to Upload New Beliefs
- Change the Way You Talk to Yourself and Others
- Surround Yourself With People That Match Your Desired Mindset
- Focus on; Nutrition/ Yoga/ Exercise/ Nature/ Rest/ Singing/ Painting/ Writing/ Dance
- Change Television and Reading Habits
- Change Behaviour
Can We Change Our Mindset?
We know more about the human brain than we have ever known before. Our thinking has completely shifted, over the years, about this organ and our relationship with it. We thought that the brain cells we were born with and who we are was hardwired in. That, after a certain point, there was nothing, we could do.
Now we know our brain is capable of growing new neurons and making new connections, we can actively influence this process, which is called neurogenic. We are particularly good at it in response to trauma, as well as strokes and brain injuries. But there are now psychological tools that have been developed that can build brand-new pathways, brand-new connections that can enhance a positive growth mindset and transform our behaviours.
Neuroplasticity is operating cell’s ability to rearrange themselves, which means the brain you walked in here with today is not the brain you will walk out of here this afternoon.
Our brain is learning new ways of being and behaving all the time, it is just up to us to focus our attention on the positive, there are beneficial experiences and opportunities, consistently focusing in on the good within each child and reinforcing that, which ultimately teaches them to do the same, and using those psychological tools for change.
The Mindset Matters Workshop for Professionals
“The Mindset Matters” workshop can be delivered to teachers, health care professionals, social workers, managers, facilitators; anyone who wishes to help encourage a positive growth mindset and enhance the emotional and mental well-being of the children and young people in their care, by using the insights, practical mindfulness games and activities to actively encourage children and young people to be the best they possibly can be.
During the workshop, you will gain an insight into:
1. What is Mindset…where does it come from and how it affects behaviour
2. Creating an “I can – I am” attitude
3. The developing child’s brain
4. Building Better Brains – how we can actively grow new neurons
5. The three types of microcircuitry
6. How to upgrade your brain
7. Epigenetics – How stress and anxiety change the way DNA is expressed
8. The Fixed Mindset vs The Growth Mindset
9. The Conscious and Subconscious and Universal Consciousness
10. What you believe will be….
11. Mindfulness
12. Changing your language… The power of the spoken word
13. Meditation and Affirmations
Mindfulness will equip you with the knowledge and understanding of what is happening to the children and young people in your care, on a psychological and emotional level, which can help develop a whole new way of being with them.
Practicing mindfulness means paying attention to what's happening in the moment and accepting those experiences and feelings without judgement. We can suddenly start seeing the children and young people and their behaviour for what it really is and stop taking it all so personally.
Once you find a new language and a new way of behaving, you will find that the children and young people in your care will follow suit.
Through understanding how they develop and grow, how to talk so they will listen, and how to listen so they will talk, you will open up and deepen that line of communication for years to come.
The Positive Parenting Workshop for Parents
“The Positive Parenting Workshop for Parents” is a 90-minute workshop aiming to help you and your child/ children through anxiety and stress that day-to-day life can bring. This workshop will help you and your child/ children navigate emotions, anxiety, worry and fear, tricky friends, learn new communication skills and get that extra layer of support that you and they need.
During the workshop, you will gain an insight into:
1. What is Mindset…where does it come from and how it affects behaviour
2. Creating an “I can – I am” attitude
3. The developing child’s brain
4. Building Better Brains – how we can actively grow new neurons
5. How to upgrade your brain
6. What you believe will be….
7. Mindfulness
8. Changing your language… The power of the spoken word
9. Meditation and Affirmations
Mindfulness is one strategy that can reduce the stress of being a parent. Next, this, with the knowledge and understanding of what is happening to our children on a psychological and emotional level; can help develop a whole new way of being with our kids.
Practicing mindfulness means paying attention to what's happening in the moment and accepting those experiences and feelings without judgement. We can suddenly start seeing our children and their behaviour for what it really is and stop taking it all so personally.
Once a parent finds a new language and a new way of behaving, you will find that your child/ children will follow suit.
Through understanding how they develop and grow, how to talk so they will listen, and how to listen so they will talk, you will open up and deepen that line of communication for years to come.
Connection and understanding will start to form and will give you tools to support your child/ children through their childhood years to help and support them to navigate the teens with ease.
