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Celebrating EveryBODY! is a program designed to build resiliency and help children and youth become aware of the external factors that influence their choices around body image. Our Children's Health Resiliency program is aimed at educating the adults in our school system and our communities to understand the importance of the basic principles and applying them in their own life and to the lives of their students and children. The health of the helper is a determining factor on how effective a prevention program can be. It is through role modeling that most human learning occurs. To recognize students’ well-being and our own means a shift on how we offer our services. This would include a shift from trying to “fix” people to building on individuals’ natural health.
Our program is a strength-based approach that is grounded in sound research in the field of resiliency. The inside nature of this program offers a bridge between our natural health and outside influences. Participants will develop an understanding of the resilience-based framework the program operates from, deepen their understanding for themselves so they can apply it in their own lives and then learn how to naturally tap into their students’ well-being. Each lesson offers a very interactive and reflective approach.
The curriculum includes the following components:
Lesson 1: Finding your Inner Compass
Lesson 2: Uncovering Potential
Lesson 3: Our Natural Resource –The Role of Thought
Lesson 4: The Thought Habit Cycle
Lesson 5: Feelings and Moods
Lesson 6: What you think is what you get
Lesson 7: Appreciating Others
Lesson 8: Healthy Living
Lesson 9: Tuning into Healthy Living
Lesson 10: Celebration!
Celebrating EveryBODY! is a 10 lesson program and to effectively teach this requires an 9-hour training session by teachers and other professionals to become informed of the underlying approach to this curriculum. It is a program designed primarily for elementary school teachers who work with children in grades 4, 5 & 6 but can also be utilized by other community professionals and volunteers. The purpose of this universal prevention program is to reduce the risk of eating disorders and other weight issues by tapping into our youths’ natural resiliency to prevent these unhealthy behaviours.
PLEASE NOTE: Celebrating EveryBODY! is a primary prevention health promotion program designed to promote healthy development in individuals BEFORE they start experimenting with unhealthy eating behaviors, and is NOT intended as a treatment tool for youth who are already showing signs or symptoms of an eating disorder.
School Involvement Community Involvement
Testimonials
"I never knew feelings were so powerful, and thoughts too. I didn't know how to see a situation in an other persons view, but thanks to Jessie's Hope, I now know" - Grade 5 student from Erma Stevenson Elementary
"I really like the inside-out approach and I think Quinn did a good job explaining. I really liked the thought/feeling/behaviour wheel. I really liked the time for discussion and time to practice listening" - Public Health Nurse
"I thought the thought process cycle was really useful. Many of the visuals in the lesson binder were great visuals for the kids, and I am looking forward to teaching them." - Grade 5 teacher Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows School District
"It's more about how I need to change then about what I want my kids to do." - Parent
"To stay present - to connect in the moment" - Parent
"I learned that nobody can hurt your feelings" - Grade 5 male student from Erma Stevenson Elementary
"Thank you so much for helping us shift our thinking and learning about our "higher state of mind". This is important personal and professional work. We are all on this journey. Your workshop helped us move along the path to greater peace of mind." - School District 36 Counsellors/Teachers
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