Our program facilitators provide a balance of guided instruction and hands on creative and interactive activities and exercises to explore the theme of the week in a fun and way!

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Social Emotional Learning or SEL refers to a set of skills:

• self-awareness,

• social awareness,

• self-management,

• responsible decision making

• relationship skills.

Often those with strong SEL skills are able to cope better with challenges, problem solve more effectively, manage emotions better and generally demonstrate stronger psychological flexibility and mental health (Zins & Elias, 2006).

Mindfulness is a mental state achieved by focusing your awareness on the present moment, while also calmly acknowledging and accepting your feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique. .

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based, “third wave” Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioral therapy. ACT is founded in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) principals. ACT emphasizes acceptance as a way to deal with negative thoughts, feelings, symptoms, or situations. It also encourages increased commitment to healthy, constructive activities that uphold your values or goals. The goal of ACT is to improve “psychological flexibility” and living a meaningful life according to what you value! Ultimately ACT often leads to increased mental health & wellness!

Psychological flexibility is a skill that refers to our ability to connect to the present moment (not stuck on thinking about the past or worrying about the future), and when difficult situations arise, our ability to adapt and respond flexibly. Our actions would demonstrate resilience towards what is important to us (our values) instead of getting stuck on the difficult situation - often leading to anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges (Hayes, S. 2006) Having strong psychological flexibility is essentially strong Mental Health & Wellness.

Research suggests that strong psychological flexibility has been associated to: decrease anxiety, decrease depression, increase healthy behavioral changes, increase being proactive instead of reactive, build resilience, improve self esteem, build stronger coping skills, improve relationships, improve emotional regulation, decrease mood swings, maintain ambition towards goals despite setbacks, and live a life of higher satisfaction. (Hayes, S. 2016; Yang et al. 2015).