We would like to invite children aged 9-10 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@
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.
