Lancashire schools to participate in mental wellness challenge ahead of anti-bullying week
From Monday 8 November, thirty-three primary schools in the North West, including some in Lancashire, will begin a mental wellness challenge ahead of Anti-Bullying Week, which begins the following Monday.
The 5-Day RTT Mental Wellness Challenge “I Can’t to I Can” was created by the Rapid Transformational Therapy Training School and aims to provide children ages 7-10 with a series of mental tips to help to build confidence, self-esteem and resilience.
Young people are 50% more likely to have a mental health problem than three years ago, according to The Childrens’ Society UK, which RTT says is due to the ongoing pandemic, concerns about climate change and social media pressures.
RTT says the 5-day challenge was created in response to the pandemic anxiety among young people in these uncertain times, and that it “will give them the mental stamina to face these difficult times and the skills for them. support throughout their lives if they learn to practice them daily. “
One Lancashire school participating in the challenge is Penwortham Middleforth Church of England Primary School in Preston.
Joe Noblet, 6th grade teacher at the school, said: “I chose to participate in the five day RTT challenge with my 6th grade class, like right now, more than ever, for all students across the country; mental health is a priority. The activities and resources provided should not only provide a growing mindset for this school year, but hopefully continue as they progress through high school and beyond. “
Available online, the free resource is based on the RTT concept of the inner cheerleader, an encouraging driving force that everyone is born with.
RTT says the inner critic can then come into play as early as the age of five, which is why the skills taught in “I can’t for I can” are essential and it only takes a week to instill new ones. positive approaches to children aged 7 to 10.
Commenting on the challenge, Dr Sian Peer, therapist and principal of the RTT school said, “As a parent myself, I know how crippling anxiety can be for a young child. We wanted to share some of the amazing mental wellness tools that are the cornerstones of RTT to help elementary school children understand and deal with their emotions. The 5-Day Challenge provides teachers with a daily lesson plan for a week, each building on the learning of the day before. There are videos, fun exercises and DIY ideas to make the whole experience interactive and memorable. “
While most schools will be participating in the challenge during the week of November 8, the resources will be available to schools on an ongoing basis.
Interested schools can visit www.rtt.com/method, and everything needed to run the 5 Day Challenge is available online once a school registers.
Each day focuses on a different power that children can develop, with the first day focusing on the cheerleader’s life using the ‘power of the imagination’, and the second day on how our cheerleader works. cheerleader speaks to us through the ‘power of words’.
Day three examines how we get stuck in circular thinking and how it affects us with the ‘power of looping thoughts’ and day four is about learning to create positive neural pathways through the ‘power of repetition’
Finally, the fifth day is a group activity, where each student decides which characteristic they like best about their inner cheerleader from the first day and recreates that element on a separate sheet of paper, before coming to the front of the class to glue it on. a pre-drawn. Class cheerleader outline.
Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) describes itself as “an innovative and critically acclaimed therapeutic approach using powerful tools and techniques to deliver rapid and lasting results”, which is based on hypnotherapy, psychotherapy , neurolinguistic (NLP) and cognitive programming. behavioral therapy (CBT).
Her personalized approach works with clients to reframe all negative beliefs, habits and emotions, many of which have been carried from childhood, ending negative self-talk so that they can approach life in a positive way.
There are currently 10,000 registered RTT therapists worldwide and many specialize in specific areas working with children and adults including anxiety, self-confidence / self-esteem, depression / moodiness, eating disorders, addictions, sleep problems, autoimmune diseases, physical pain, phobias and OCD.
