The Resilient Child
NOT A QUICK FIX! Our 10-week Resilient Child programme integrates Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) with brain-enhancing exercises, offering children the tools to build resilience, manage emotions, and improve focus.
Having strong social-emotional competencies helps your child develop personal effectiveness. In today’s ever changing world, such soft skills gives children the tools to navigate current and future real-world challenges.
SEL goes beyond improving a child’s school performance, it’s a life skill, it’s about recognising and managing one’s emotions, develop healthy identities, build meaningful relationships, act for the good of self, others and society.
Social Emotional Learning
SEL is about learning important life skills — self-awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, and problem-solving . Our SEL curriculum draws from well-established and evidence-based approaches adapted to suit our local context.
Brain Training
We need a well-developed brain to effectively execute SEL skills. That's where the brain enhancing exercise approach comes in. We strengthen brain connectivity through a combination of physical and cognitive activities. By enhancing the brain's efficiency, children can better apply their SEL skills in everyday life.
The program is centred around these two pillars:
Objectives:
- enhance attention and focus,
- impulse control,
- executive functioning
Activities:
- physical exercises that involve coordination & motor skills
- cognitive exercises & brain teasers
Objectives:
- improve self-awareness,
- emotional regulation,
- interpersonal relationship
Activities:
- social-emotional learning
- mindfulness practices
About the programme
Dawn, the Programme Lead of The Mindful Camp, developed The Resilient Child - a social-emotional learning (SEL) programme - in 2014; drawing from well-established, evidence-based approaches, and working with Occupational Therapists and other experts, she tailored it to suit the local context.
With over a decade of experience teaching the programme, she’s developed a passion for how neuroplasticity— the brain's ability to adapt - helps chiildren put SEL skills into action. As the mother of an ADHD son (who, let’s just say, had some epic struggles with jumping jacks at 15!), Dawn dove into the world of brain exercises and now sees them as a crucial part of SEL. By getting the brain in shape, children can manage emotions and behaviours even better!
