I developed Surf'sUP Method℠ services to educate and guide adults to support all children and teens. Under my direction, adults learn the tried-and-true evidence-based skills predictive of kids’ psychological endurance, emotional resilience, and overall well-being. Children learn to embrace emotions, tolerate discomfort, and stretch emotionally.
Learning about Surf'sUP Method℠, you will:
Learning about Surf'sUP Method℠, you will:
- Recognize the link between physical and mental health.
- Name the components of courage.
- List the factors in one's childhood environment that support the development of courage.
- Strengthen situational awareness and mindfulness skills.
- Learn communication skills associated with decreased stress in youth, and be able to practice these skills in role play situations.
- Appreciate stress-related growth, and learn how stress can be paced and used to support childhood development.
- Gain knowledge about developmentally-appropriate expectations and boundaries, and master boundary setting in role-play experiences.
- Be able to apply the concepts learned to adjust youth programs in clinical, educational, and community settings - to better incorporate wisdom from psychological science.