Managing Anger in 4-11 year olds: a workshop for Kids and Parents

This session is aimed at Parents and Carers and their children.

Standing in the Gap is a UK based Early Intervention mental health charity (www.standinginthegap.uk) working with preschool and primary aged children. We help children and parents to manage the big emotions of fear, anxiety and anger and grief.

Our mission is to support children and families by providing tthe tools to build emotional wellbeing and good child mental health.

Our vision is for every child to be emotionally healthy and flourish.

This workshop uses Solution focused therapy and Cognitive Behavioural therapy principles to help children manage their big feelings. It is aimed at parents and children attending together.

We analyse all our workshops and from evaluations parents have told us:

Everyone who attended found it useful (44% rated it as excellent, the remainder as good) All parents who attended would recommend this workshop to another parent.

Feedback also included:

“This is an informative and easy to follow session with useful tips on helping your child manage their anger. I would highly recommend it.”

“Hugely informative, exactly the right pitch and speed, and loads of practical useful stuff as well as background and context”

The workshop looks at:

What do we mean by anger, and what's the difference between good and bad anger?

How does Anger make us feel? (including early warning signs and triggers)

What models can help us understand Anger, we look at the balloon and bomb model, which teach us practical ways to stop anger becoming overwhelming.

Our 5 step plan to Managing Anger

How to build your own Managing Anger toolkit, as we are all unique.

Come along with your child and start the journey together to help them manage this BIG emotion.

The session is supported by a really useful resource pack, which contains all the information disucssed in the workshop and gives you laminated resources to support you working with your child. The resource packs come highly recommended

"The resources are really good with lots of different tools to try. The workbooks and Big feelings diary are great without being too overwhelming."

To purchase your pack visit https://www.standinginthegap.uk/shop. If you would like international posting or multiple resource packs please contact us on info@standinginthegap.uk for a personalised quote.

How to book

This workshop is suitable for adults and children.

There is a nominal fee of £5 per family for our workshop tickets. Please purchase one family ticket to log on, irrespective of how many are present.

If paying for a ticket is something that your finances won't stretch to, but the information would be really helpful to you and your family; we do have a number of free places for each workshop. Please email us at info@standinginthegap.uk stating which workshop and date you would like to be considered for

If you are in the fortunate position where you are able, you can pay this forward and purchase additional family tickets which can then be used to offer free places to more vulnerable families. Please follow the link here to donate places for families who would benefit from this. https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/23211

A couple of days before the session we will send you an email invite for the teams workshop Please come on line up to 10 mins before the start of the session to allow us to check sound etc.

All sessions are on MS Teams at 7pm UK time.

F or more information around what support we can offer preschool and primary aged children see www.standinginthegap.uk Also do follow us on facebook and instagram.