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TEACHING RESILIENCE through
SELF ACCEPTANCE SKILLS
to all CHILDREN and YOUNG PEOPLE
For more than 30 years, health workers, educators, youth workers, school counsellors and therapists have used Sabine Beecher’s Self Acceptance Skills Method© to prevent and counter depression, suicide, anxiety, body image concerns, bullying behaviour and undue stress among children and young people.
Now, Sabine has developed Teaching Resilience Through Self Acceptance Skills, a teaching pack that makes the tested Self Acceptance Skills Method even easier for teachers, parents, carers, youth workers, counsellors and grassroots workers to use.
For the first time, children and young people can learn the basic thinking skills that make them secure, strong, confident and resilient so they can recognise, prevent and navigate the challenges and problems of growing up.
These skills supersede ten unsuspected wrong-thinking habits common throughout all layers of society. Why are they wrong? They are the seeds that sprout illogical, self-defeating beliefs that often have disastrous effects on relationships and on mental and emotional health.
The ten steps to teaching resilience through self acceptance are:
1. Setting off: Out with self esteem – In with self acceptance!
2. Changing self labels back into facts
3. Accepting yourself totally and unconditionally
4. Correcting wrong expectations
5. Dissolving negative feelings
6. Undoing blame/self-blame with logical thinking
7. Giving yourself your own encouragement
8. Giving yourself your own praise
9. Living the ‘self-thinking’ balanced lifestyle
10. Recharging your emotional resources – minimise stress, prevent burn-out
Using these ten steps, children and young people gain:
? clear, logical, objective thinking
? inner security and contentment
? independent judgement that is not controlled by peer pressure
? calm, confident behaviour
? strength and resilience
? social and emotional well-being
‘Thinkeracy’ – the essential correct-thinking skills of the Resilience through the Self Acceptance Skills Method – is easily taught universally to ALL children and young people [including those who are vulnerable and at risk, and those who bully] along with ‘literacy’ and ‘numeracy’ skills.
Contents of Teaching Pack:
Powerpoint presentation and Print-out
Information and explanations built on years of experience
Suggested Lesson Plans
Blackline Handouts – laminated for easy photocopying
Blackline Worksheets – laminated for easy photocopying
A4 posters to copy onto coloured paper and put up
Popular teaching props
Easy self-help text: Happiness- It’s up to you .. easy steps
to self acceptance and
good relationships
Includes ongoing support and encouragement!
Teaching Resilience Through Self Acceptance Skills is a comprehensive pack, available now for $150 + posting from Sabine Beecher, 4 Paradise Avenue, Chatswood NSW 2069, Australia T: 02 9419 6366 F: 02 9419 7202 sabeecher@netspace.net.au www.logicalhappiness.com.au
ABN 87 899 674 053
Testimonials:
‘I have found your six step method really effective at helping people grow when they move from chasing self esteem to finding self acceptance.’ Alcohol & Other Drugs Counsellor, NSW country
A primary school teacher intervened in violent schoolground
retaliation: ‘Remember when we talked
about self acceptance and self labels? If you accept yourself
and don’t call yourself names, the teasing can’t hurt
you’. Now the child reports back happily, ‘the kids
called me a name but I’m not worried
about it any more’. Luise Scott-Young, Early Childhood Educator,
Queensland
For youth it is practical and simple. In some cases I have found “instant” results to create the beginning for growth. To assist young people to come to terms with being responsible, I cannot recommend it too highly. Dave Kendall, Youth Worker, Sydney
My husband and I have started to use your recommended language on our children. My 6 year old now corrects me and says ‘I’m not naughty. I just did a naughty thing when I smacked Michael’.
My nine year old daughter is also using your guidelines to help her understand and clear away a lot of worrying thoughts. Our relationship has broadened in a most wonderful way!
Although I’ve just turned 17, I have had severe anxiety
and depression problems for over 3 years and
have found the suggestions very helpful.