Simple, actionable strategies for parents, caregivers, and educators.
Are you looking for ways to help your child manage anxiety?
Anxiety & Self-Regulation is a step-by-step online course designed to empower you with proven techniques to guide children through anxious moments and foster emotional resilience. Whether you’re a parent, caregiver, or educator, this course equips you with practical tools to create a supportive environment where kids can thrive.
In less than 30 minutes you will learn…
In this course, you will learn what anxiety is, its symptoms and causes, and how to help your kids learn to self-reflect and self-regulate.
In addition:
- Understand the signs of anxiety in children and teens.
- Master tools like deep breathing, grounding techniques, and more.
- Build morning routines that reduce stress and set a positive tone.
- Approach anxious moments with empathy and confidence.
- Foster long-term emotional regulation in kids through effective strategies.
We encourage a compassionate approach to help you learn to become an accessible resource for your kids. Furthermore, by understanding how anxiety sneaks up on the brain and nervous systems, you can quickly shift to a calm response by using the tools learned in this course.
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What is included
Self-Paced Learning:
Access the course anytime, anywhere.
Video Lessons:
Engaging, easy-to-follow content for all learning styles.
Actionable Techniques:
Tools you can start using immediately.
Lifetime Access:
Revisit the content whenever you need it.
Understanding the Brain can help ease anxiety
Your emotions are believed to come from the brain—the limbic system, to be more precise, a complex network of structures deep within your cerebral cortex.
One of the key structures within the limbic system is the amygdala, which is responsible for processing emotions like fear, anxiety, anger, and aggression. The amygdala works as an alarm system. When we encounter a potentially threatening situation, it sends a signal to our brain and nervous system, which triggers our fight-or-flight response.
By understanding the brain behaviors and responses, we can be more capable of connecting to our emotional and physical bodies, thus making it easier to learn how to manage our emotions and behaviors.
Why Mindful Monkeys?
Kids are silly, witty, playful, curious, and funny. They move around, jump around, and it may seem like they cannot calm. But they are calm as they learn how to breathe with their bodies and minds. They understand that finding stillness helps them become aware of themselves and their surroundings and stay silly but calm.
Philosophy
Mindful Monkeys believes that all children are capable of learning the skills to self-regulate and self-control while remaining curious, silly, and playful.
Our comprehensive approach includes parents, children, and educators; teaching everyone the ability to be present, find stillness, and become aware of their minds (thoughts), bodies, and emotions. We coach kids to develop skills for social connection, which is crucial for children’s development into healthy adults.
Mindful Monkeys' science-based methodology incorporates self-regulating techniques for parents, educators, and children; resulting in more positive connections and healthier relationships. Mindful Monkeys has created a safe, fun, and flexible environment to offset the pressures and stressful routines that our children and teens may be facing in today’s world.
Methodology
Mindful Monkeys has developed a methodology based on three pillars: Neuroscience, Mindfulness and Yoga, Social-Emotional Learning. There are plenty of studies and research on each one of the pillars. The study and understanding of all three enables children to cope with their internal and external stressors of daily life and teaches them lifelong techniques for living a mindful life.
Some of the benefits of integrating the three pillars are:
- Understanding the brain; behavior and reactions.
- Co-regulation: being able to monitor and regulate the nervous system.
- Self-awareness: recognize and comprehend one’s emotions and how they translate into our behaviors.
- Self-management: the ability to regulate one’s feelings and behaviors.
- Social awareness: looking outward and empathizing with others; the willingness to understand and respect the individuality of others
- Relationship skills: create and maintain healthy relationships through cooperation, active listening, conflict resolution and communication
- Responsible decision-making: making safe and healthy choices to benefit their well-being and the well-being of others
- Mindfulness: looking inward; by understanding and connecting to their brain, nervous systems, emotions and practicing the tools for self-regulation
