'Imagine Yourself' - Energy Management for Life© Skills Program

This program helps children and families who have or are experiencing chaos, or have special needs, learn how to calm their mind, body and feelings. It has helped many children develop positive coping skills. This often leads to more positive behaviors and outcomes.

How does this program work?

It helps children and families learn and practice three key skills. These skills help the child, youth and adults develop positive coping skills. This impacts them and can lessen the intensity of their negative behavior, often creating very positive behavior over time.

'Imagine Yourself' Workshop

The content and delivery style includes:

• a variety of exercises that also promote the same skills that are in the audio program done in different ways.
• defines the key zones (States of performance) we all need to be aware of and the process and skills to achieve them
• additional skills and a process that assist them understand how to use these skills in different or difficult situations.
• using a positive asset based approach we call Realistic Optimism
• a respectful and upbeat approach that is designed to help the participants buy in, learn the process and use the skills
• using a simplified common language to develop and deepen self-awareness and communications between all ages
• teaching the process to gain the skills.
• focuses on three key zones or states we all need to achieve of to be in and stay healthy and productive in the day
• focusing on three key skills that helps us achieve these states or zones

What are the potential outcomes for the participants?

• recognize and manage their own states of energy,
• creating more positive behavior in the process
• recognize the different types of energy they have and how it impacts themselves and other people developing empathy in the process
• establish a positive understanding within themselves about their energy and learn how to manage it
• handle challenging situations more effectively growing more positive outcomes

They learn how to use these skills in different circumstances to help with anger, fear, anxiety and other lively emotions. Combined they help the participants create positive mind /body memories and skills that they can access when they need or want to have positive behavior.

What are the key skills participants learn?

Audio and Workshops

• Meditation – A focus and calming skill.
• Mindfulness – Helping with concentration and being in the moment.
• Relaxation Response – A calming skill for mind, body and feelings.

Workshops

• Mind Body exercises that include Belly Breathing, Silly Bird and Busy Bee

Target Ages Workshops

• We offer different age appropriate workshops. Each is designed to work with and across the generations.

The Audio Programs
(in CD format and on iTunes in Canada, USA and all other English language sites)

The audio programs use a story telling format, sounds of animals, birds and nature. Plus woven into the stories are some gentle exercises. These assist the listener practice the three key skills that researchers tell us promote an increase in cognitive ability. Plus in our experience they enhance bedtime routine, deepen sleep, communications and overall ability to handle stress. However only if they are practiced while the positive mind body habits and mind body memories are established. That can take as little as a few weeks and as long as several months depending upon each child and families unique circumstances.

The audio programs work with the workshop and stand alone to help the user practice and reinforce the key skills from the workshop. The program results are the most powerful when they are used together. However may caregivers report excellent results only from the audio programs. The audio programs are done in story format, the listener is asked to participate in using their imagination and in the process is lead through some gentle mindfulness, relaxation and meditative exercises. They have been very successfully used to assist with a variety of issues including bedtime routines and getting to sleep. Caregivers of children with anger and other behaviour issues have noted that for many (not all) they note some small to large behaviour changes after listening to these programs. Research on these skills indicate that if practiced regularly can have a positive impact on brain development (Cognitive ability). You can read reviews by professionals, caregivers, youth and children at: www.ResiliencyForLife.com/IYR

Ages Audio Programs

The target user should be able to understand English at a four-year-old level. The youngest known user to us was 30 months old. She who was coached by her mother to use the audio programs over five or six sessions. However once she understood all the words in the audio “She is a big girl” and no longer wanted Mommy hanging around while she listened. The oldest known user was 91. She called to inquire how these programs work, after discovering her great grandson using them.

Ages Workshop Programs

We run programs for different age levels. So language is adjusted for each age level.

Preview one of the Audio Programs

Just click on the widget below. This will allow you to listen to a sample from one of these four thirty minute audio programs.

Time Lines – How long does it take for the program to start to work?

Please Note: For some children and families it takes less than three weeks of daily practice, for some it is upwards of 225 practice sessions of practicing these skills enough that they start to change. That is one of the reasons we have the audio programs. So that adults don't have to practice with the child or youth ever session. So, patience is key as the child grasps and grows the inner skills before we start to see that reflected on the outside. How ever once they have it. They have it for a lifetime.

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CANGRANDS National Kinship Support
R.R. 1, McArthurs Mills, Ontario K0L 2M0
Tel: 613-474-0035
E-mail: grandma@cangrands.com
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