Worry Warriors - Kitchener - BSS Social Skills Group

KidsAbility's Worry Warriors group is designed to create a safe and fun environment where participants can learn strategies to assist with managing difficult emotions and anxiety. Children will learn to understand the ways in which our thoughts affect our feelings, which in turn may impact our actions, or vice versa. Your child will learn to identify feelings of worry or nervousness and how it physically feels. Through meaningful group activities, interactive discussion, modelling and role plays, learners will be provided opportunities to practice utilizing strategies to cope with negative emotions, build self-confidence and resiliency.

To improve self-regulation and social-emotional learning skills through:

• Behaviour Skills Training on topics (instruction, modelling, rehearsal, feedback)
• Prompting and reinforcement to teach priority goals each session
• Data collection to assess acquisition of priority goals

Group Goals:

• Identify situations/personal triggers that cause anxious feelings
• Label physical feelings of anxiety in own body
• Uses a coping strategy when presented with an anxiety-provoking situation
• Engages in mindfulness/meditation/calming strategy/positive self talk
• Identifies level of own anxiety using a visual rating system (e.g. feelings thermometer)
• Sorts triggers by in my control vs. out of my control

Families will receive a summary of recommendations outlining the strategies developed through each week of group to continue to apply your learning in other settings. By registering for this group, you are committing to attending all session dates.

Dates: Weekly on Thursdays in Kitchener, 4:30-6:30, from April 20th to June 22nd, 2023.