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Taking Breaks
Our focus skill for this week is taking breaks. Taking a break is a strategy to help calm our thoughts and feelings to be better able to attend to education, activities, social situations etc. Knowing when to take
Shield of Courage
This week’s focus skill is using our Shield of Courage. The shield is made up of positive beliefs that can be used as self-talk. During times of stress, we may feel a loss of control and therefore react
Compliments
This week’s focus skill is compliments. Although the purpose of this skill is to be able to use social skills, it is also a skill to help with perception by being able to look for and notice the
5 Point Scale
Here at Highlands Youth Services we work with a Circle of Courage mindset. The Circle of Courage is based on the 4 basic human needs we all have, which are a sense of Belonging, Mastery, Independence and Generosity.National Reconciliation Week
‘In This Together’ is the theme for National Reconciliation Week 27th May – 3rd June 2020 Theses date remind us of two successful moments in Australian history, the 1967 Referendum and the High Court Mabo Decision. The 1967
What’s inside the digital lunch break?
ACYP NSW (the Advocate for Children and Young People, for us who don’t know acronyms) have developed a pretty cool resource to help with boredom during the COVID-19 pandemic which is called Digital Lunch Break. Light seems to