Group classes for children aged 9-12 years old

We would like to invite children aged 9-12 to group classes conducted in Ukrainian, Polish and English, which will aim to:

• strengthening the child’s sense of self-worth,
• finding the child’s resources needed to find their way in a peer group,
• learning to recognize and communicate needs,
• developing the ability to name and express emotions,
• learning to resolve conflicts and express anger constructively,
• coping with defeat while playing together and experiencing the joy of winning,
• practicing social skills to help them find their way in school,
• integrating children and modeling behaviors that could improve a child’s adaptation process in a Polish school.

All this will take place in the context of joint play and dialogue, in a supportive and safe environment that responds to the needs and tunes in to the child.

Sign up here: psychozapisy@forummigracyjne.org

OBJECTIVES – that is, what skills the child will acquire during the group classes:

• development of self-regulation skills in a peer group,
• providing the child with positive group experiences – increasing the child’s openness to proposed similar activities in other peer groups,
• development of relationship building skills .

Description of the topics that will be discussed during the meetings:

• Integration and rules of being in a peer group – getting to know each other through games and integration games
• Safety and respect – what are boundaries and how to respect ourselves and others?
• Our needs – we recognize needs and learn to express them with words
• Our hobbies – what do we like to do and what do we dislike, what do we know how to do together, and what can we learn from each other?
• Our emotions – joy, anger, sadness, fear, peace and other feelings – what do our emotions tell us about?
• What are our resources? Recognizing individual resources in children and noticing similarities
• How to deal with conflict situations with colleagues?
• A sense of belonging – contact with other people – why is it important for us to have classmates?

The group will be led by psychologists:

Lena Kaszycka – psychologist, social skills trainer, outdoor education trainer, psychotherapist in her first year of postgraduate studies in psychodynamic psychotherapy. She works with children, adolescents and adults.

Sergeia Kuznetcova – psychologist, working with children, adolescents and adults.