Stress and Anxiety Collection
THINK ABOUT IT – TALK ABOUT IT
CHC invites the PAUSD Community to Think About It – Talk About It on the topic of stress and anxiety. This collection contains selections of original CHC content and guiding questions that that will provide the foundation of our Talk About It session on November 13.
Think About It
A CHC online collection on Stress and Anxiety with guiding questions to engage, lift up and support the PAUSD Community.
You access the resources at your own convenience – in a way that works with your schedule. You can select 2 or 3 resources, or you can view or listen to them all! You choose. Download our guiding questions handout to help corral your thoughts.
Talk About It
Live, virtual Q&A session with CHC expert
Organized by Palo Alto CAC and CHC. Sponsored by PTAC. Questions? paloaltocac@gmail.com
Saturday, November 13, 9:30- 10:30 am
Registration required via Zoom
After you access the resources, plan to attend a live Talk About It discussion/Q&A led by a CHC expert. You’ll walk away with a greater understanding of the topic and practical strategies you can use to support your children!
CHC’s Stress and Anxiety Collection
Guiding Questions
1. Anxiety can be caused by stress. Sometimes stress is helpful (it can be motivating and improve performance) and sometimes it’s not (when it causes anxiety, decreases performance, feels like it’s out of our control). Over the past year, we have all been dealing with stress in different ways. When stress is ongoing it can cause anxiety – and we are seeing that in our kids. What are you observing in your kids that causes you to think they are experiencing anxiety?
2. When do you feel most anxious? When do you see your kids feel most anxious
3. What coping strategies do you use (or can you use) to help?
4. Self-awareness is essential to coping with anxiety. How can you build greater self-awareness in stressful situations?
5. What tools can you use in these situations to reduce your anxiety? (Both for yourself and for your children.)
6. We have all heard a lot about mindfulness. Being mindful and practicing mindfulness strategies can help to keep you (and your child) in the present vs. ruminating on the past or worrying about the future. Identify 1 or 2 mindfulness strategies you can try.
7. How can self compassion help you as you cope with your anxiety?
8. How can you teach self compassion to your kids to help them cope with their own anxiety?
9. What are 1-2 strategies you can implement in your family or for yourself that will help you in coping with anxiety in yourself, your family, your kids?
Webinars
Slides only
Podcasts
- Anxious Kids? How Parents Can Help
- The Power of Radical Acceptance
- Top 3 Mindfulness Strategies to Reduce Stress
CHC’s Stress and Anxiety Collection Resources
Webinars: Watch and Listen
Teaching Self Compassion to Kids
Research indicates that self-compassion is associated with greater emotional resilience, higher self-confidence, more caring behavior, and less reactive anger. In this recorded session, learn strategies for teaching your kids how to build resilience through self-compassion.
Managing Stress with Mindfulness Strategies
Our kids are confronted with demands, full schedules, social pressures and even world events that result in stress. All children respond to stress in different ways – some responses are more productive than others. Discover how you can help your kids develop habits and responses that reduce their worries with mindfulness strategies.
Slides only: Read
Managing Anxiety and Building Self Efficacy
This Community Education session discusses stress and anxiety, common symptoms, and the anxiety/avoidance cycle. View these slides to learn effective strategies parents and caregivers can use to help children cope with anxiety and establish positive behavior patterns.
Podcasts: Listen
Anxious Kids? How Parents Can Help
Prolonged uncertainty can lead to anxiety in both children and adults, compounded by the layer of risk that has been added to our daily lives. As communities begin to come together again, we are faced with additional stressors of getting reacquainted with the people and places that were off-limits for so long. These stressful times can also be a teaching moment, for us to validate our kids’ feelings and model healthy coping strategies. Listen to this podcast episode to find out how.
The Power of Radical Acceptance
Life has perhaps never felt more out of our control than it has over the past year. But refusing to accept our reality doesn’t change its outcome. Rather it increases the suffering that comes from the futility of fighting against it. Enter Radical Acceptance: the practice of letting go of the illusion of control and being willing to accept things as they are right now. Listen to this podcast episode discussing the life-changing power of radical acceptance and share strategies for making the conscious choice to stop resisting the way things are.
Top 3 Mindfulness Strategies to Reduce Stress
Living in this uncertain and changing environment can lead to stress responses in all of us. All children respond to stress in different ways – and some responses are more productive than others. Listen in to this podcast to hear about 3 valuable mindfulness strategies you can use today with your kids to help alleviate stress.
It Takes a Village
We love to hear from you. Email us at communityed@testing.chconline.org with your comments, thoughts and let’s talk about it! For more enriching content from CHC experts delivered straight to your inbox, join our Virtual Village email list. For questions about this event: paloaltocac@gmail.com.
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