Teaching Growth Mindset supports both the brain and heart to work together to support a healthier way of perceiving and connecting with the world especially when it gets challenging! A Growth mindset teaches children to notice the beliefs and thoughts that lead to a fixed mindset that can get us stuck in rigidity, perfectionism, and low self- esteem. When we learn how to step into a growth mindset we learn to notice our thoughts, change how we think of ourselves and others, and how we think about mistakes and challenges. A growth mindset teaches us to accept our mistakes and challenges as part of our growth and learn from them. We can build on positive thoughts, affirmations, activities that support us along the way especially when things get tough.  

Learning about our emotions, having feelings vocabulary, identifying feelings in our body, talking about our feelings and having resources to “take care of our feelings” helps us learn that emotions teach us a lot about inner life, what we care about, what we believe, and what needs to change. Learning to self soothe and identify what we need is part of caring for our emotions.   

Using art in this process supports connecting with both the right and left hemispheres. Art can bring us into our feelings but also into our way of organizing, structuring, and learning about ourselves and integrating the lessons. Also, working in a group has shown to be an effective and supportive way that can builds relationship skills, social skills, trust, and create new friendships.

This group will be anywhere between 4-6 children and meeting 6 weeks biweekly for two hours.