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Are you suffering from chronic fatigue, pain, anxiety, depression, overwhelm, and/or various sensitivities (light/chemicals/digestive)? Perhaps you are in the healthcare industry seeing complex cases that are difficult to treat? If so, this could be the right course for you!
Life today is tough for kids, teens and emerging adults. Let’s face it. It can be tough for us adults. So, imagine what it’s like for them navigating this rapidly ever-changing world.
Are you passionate about today’s youth and the status of their mental health? Are you curious about how to support them? Are you interested in providing today’s youth with tools to empower them and take ownership over their mental health and wellbeing? Are you ready to help them tap into their own energetic and creative powers?
Are you an integrative health coach, health and wellness professional, educator, movement specialist, energy practitioner, parent, caretaker or anyone with a vested interest in helping kids learn self-managing and coping strategies in order to thrive - mind, body and soul?
With the rising need for attention given to childhood and adolescent mental health and wellness, this course takes a deep dive into how we can integrate somatic, energetic and creative strategies when working with this demographic. While children and adolescents are not always able to articulate what they are experiencing, using alternative approaches, like these, become a vehicle for expressing what might not yet be understood yet or verbalized.
Whether in a coaching setting with children, clients with children, or even parents themselves, this course aims to provide understanding and education in order to support our youth. Touching upon childhood trauma and its effects, topics will cover possible future outcomes and ways in which to interrupt the negative cycle. Modules also cover accessible tools and exercises, children and adolescents can feel empowered with, to identify triggers and self-regulate their own mental health issues and needs. Creating mindfulness and internal awareness early-on is a prime example of how we can offer support to today’s youth. The hope and goal is to then build upon these lessons into adulthood and life situations (and have some FUN in the process.) And isn’t that all we really want? To see the kids in our lives happy and healthy, with clear heads and full hearts?
At the end of the course, the participant will...
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Jess is a Board Certified Integrative Health Coach with the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She is also an RYT-500 with specialized certifications in Prenatal-Postnatal and Restorative Yoga. Following her professional dance career, she earned her M.A. in Dance Education from NYU. She also earned her BFA in Dance Performance from UMASS Amherst.
To her work, Jess brings a, “go against the grain,” integrative approach, honoring each individual’s process. She also brings her contagious enthusiasm, down to earth energy, honesty, love of connecting mind, body and soul and passion for empowering people’s fullest potential.
Because of her own journey, Jess has always been an advocate for promoting mental health and wellness. She became passionate about youth mental health quite a few years ago, when becoming a mom and working with her dance students. While she has always integrated mindfulness practice into her classes, she found (particularly during and after Covid,) that prioritizing her students’ mental and emotional health was essential. She found ways to weave in journal writing, guided meditations, breath-work and conversations as a way to promote self-esteem and positivity, as well as encourage frequent “check-in” sessions. She also gave students creative ways to use movement to express how they were feeling during this unprecedented time.
Upon further reflection, it became clear that this was a great and necessary opportunity to develop an initiative for children and teens in all settings. With her background, her objective would be about offering students a holistic insight and empowerment into themselves. Her teaching was now to include the offering of tools in which to spark awareness of how to self-manage one’s own mental and emotional health.
As the lead instructor for this course, Jess hopes to provide those with a vested interest in today’s youth, ways in which to support the children in their own lives. Meeting kids where they are at and providing them with a caring, safe, laid-back environment can open many doors. It can nurture them to trust, try new things, energetically focus and vent inwardly and outwardly, reflect, ask questions, be candid, laugh and also take some “quiet time” for themselves. It is here where the groundwork is laid for mental readiness and coping skills. Also – and most importantly, reinforcing the notion that it’s OK to feel what you feel and it’s cool to be exactly who you are in the space you are in at any given moment in time.
Jess is also the creator of 44 Yoga + Movement and BE WELL: Yoga and Wellness School Program.
For more info on Jess and her offerings visit www.rebelwellnessny.com
