Making connections: Joining play, initiating interaction, sharing ideas, and finding common interests.
Play confidence: Taking social risks, contributing ideas, trying new activities, and developing confidence with peers.
Social flexibility: Practicing turn-taking, compromising, adapting to others' ideas, and navigating changes in play.
Communication: Expressing needs, asking questions, listening, and communicating feelings.
Friendship skills: Recognizing opportunities for connection, showing interest in others, and building shared experiences.
Navigating challenges: Working through disagreements, frustration, disappointment, and misunderstandings.
Emotional awareness: Recognizing feelings and practicing tools that support regulation during social interactions.
Each group blends:
Structured activities: Games, collaborative challenges, and guided activities that create opportunities to practice specific social skills.
Unstructured play: Child-led play that allows natural opportunities for connection, creativity, negotiation, and problem-solving.
Social-emotional learning: Interactive lessons, stories, role-play, and practical tools children can use in everyday situations.
Real-time coaching: Support from the LPC during peer interactions, helping children recognize social opportunities and work through challenges as they happen.
Practice makes connection possible.
Facilitated by a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), the group provides real-time support and gentle coaching as children navigate the natural ups and downs of interacting with peers.
Children are encouraged to try new approaches, work through challenges, recognize their strengths, and discover ways to participate in play that feel comfortable and authentic to them.
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