Session 1--Getting to Know You
(1) Establish every family experiences challenges! Draw a picture of family problem you may have for sharing.
(2) Create a spider's web with yarn. Be flexible and move through the tangles in your own way.
Session 2--Healthy Ways to Solve Problems
(1) Review examples of problems in our families (drawings)
(2) Circle of Control
(3) Identify strategies to solve problems with movement: apologize (bandage), chance (coin), reset (button), bug and a wish (dead bug and star), etc.
What works with friends and school problems will work with family problems too. "It's not all about me. I don't always get my way."
(4) Breathing strategies to move upstairs brain moments to downstairs brain ones
(5) Magic Carpet Ride for strength to solve problems well
Session 3--Practice Healthy Ways to Solve Problems
Practice Solving Common Family Problems in Healthy Ways with Roll Over Rover Game
Write down one positive way to solve a family problem.