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GRIT Kids: Growth. Resilience. Insight. Transformation.

July 26, 2021

GRIT is the ability to sustain long term goals in the face of adversity. Resilience becomes the byproduct.

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KIDS NEED GRIT

GRIT is the ability to sustain long-term goals in the face of adversity. Resilience becomes the byproduct, which is necessary for independence— and what more could we want for our children. Through curiosity about our thoughts and feelings, we grow the insight to develop, evolve, adapt and transform.

Let’s cultivate this as soon as possible.


GRIT KIDS MAY

  • Throw tantrums
  • Struggle to pay attention or complete school work
  • Struggle to fall or stay asleep
  • Have sensory issues
  • Have difficulty with focus & concentration
  • Pick on or bully siblings
  • Become defiant
  • Struggle during family outings
  • Wrestle expressing big emotions
  • Experience conflict with peers
  • Have difficulty expressing strong emotions


HOW DOES GRIT COACHING WORK?

Our in-home or virtual session time is a mix of:

  • One-on-one time with your child to cultivate self-awareness, target behavioral goals, develop emotion management, resolve stressful or traumatic experiences, and more.
  • Joint parent-child time to improve communication skills and clarify and set expectations to allow you to cultivate a healthy relationship with your child.
  • Individual time with parents or caregivers to work on skills to support your child’s transformation. We provide concrete tools to allow your child to flourish, enable you to explore the frustrations that are encountered while parenting, and have an opportunity heal the wounds that arise through the hard work of parenting. Raising children takes GRIT!


THE GRIT PHILOSOPHY

GRIT coaches facilitate growth and development by helping children with academic skills, emotional regulation, fine and gross motor skills, social skills, and more. Our coaches will help you identify where your child needs to grow and develop a targeted plan to enable your child to thrive.
GRIT coaches help children cope with stressful or traumatic experiences, manage and regulate their emotions, and make sense of the world and encounter it with curiosity. Coping with and overcoming adversity and forming a strong self-identity is how we develop resilience.
Insight allows children to reflect on their inner experience and consider possible causes, effects, and implications of potential responses. GRIT coaches guide children in exploring, identifying, and expressing their inner world, and teaching tools to examine their mind, body, and emotions and aid them in practicing different ways of expressing these experiences. 

When children are able to express themselves and when parents are able to identify needs, problematic behaviors are no longer necessary. GRIT coaches help children and families build and create opportunities for engagement. Families learn to effectively connect and cultivate a relationship that supports the developmental needs of the child. 


The GRIT Pit is a place where kids get to be real, raw, and reassured that their voice counts.

Through learning compassion and empathy, children will get to reinforce that internal drive for connection while cultivating strength and accountability. 

Parents get support, too. The Parent Pit is the place where parents and caregivers get to regroup, refresh and reassure one another that the trying experiences will be worth it. Parenting is tough, but persistence is treasured. Join us and reset and refuel for another week of caring for the tiny humans who want your love and reassurance.

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SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It provides effective skills appropriate to a variety of healing professions including mental health, medicine, physical and occupational therapies, bodywork, addiction treatment, first response, education, and others— Excerpt taken from SETI.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders resulting from multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, together with over 45 years of successful clinical application. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life-threat or as the end product of cumulative stress. Both types of stress can seriously impair a person’s ability to function with resilience and ease. Excerpt taken from SETI

An Embodied approach to healing

Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict. SE facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotion.


SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It provides effective skills appropriate to a variety of healing professions including mental health, medicine, physical and occupational therapies, bodywork, addiction treatment, first response, education, and others— Excerpt taken from SETI.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders resulting from multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, together with over 45 years of successful clinical application. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life-threat or as the end product of cumulative stress. Both types of stress can seriously impair a person’s ability to function with resilience and ease. Excerpt taken from SETI

An Embodied approach to healing

Excerpt taken from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. 

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a complete treatment modality to heal trauma and attachment issues. SP welcomes the body as an integral source of information for processing past experiences relating to upsetting or traumatic events and developmental wounds. SP incorporates the physical and sensory experience, as well as thoughts and emotions, as part of the person’s complete experience of both the trauma itself and the process of healing. Excerpt taken from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.  


An Embodied approach to healing

SP seeks to restore a person’s ability to process information without being triggered by past experience. SP uses a three-phase treatment approach to gently guide the client through the therapeutic process – Safety and Stabilization, Processing, and Integration. The therapist must pay close attention to the client to ensure that they are not overwhelmed by the process while simultaneously engaging their own abilities and capacities for healing.

It is thought that SP strengthens instinctual capacities for survival and assists clients to re-instate or develop resources which were unavailable or missing at the time the trauma or wounding occurred. Once resources are developed and in place, the traumatic event can be processed with the aid of resources. SP is a well-developed approach with decades of success in the treatment of trauma and developmental wounds. — Excerpt taken from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. 

Excerpt taken from ACBS Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. 

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a comprehensive multi-diagnostic, modularized behavioral intervention designed to treat individuals with severe mental disorders and out-of-control cognitive, emotional and behavioral patterns. It has been commonly viewed as a treatment for individuals meeting criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with chronic and high-risk suicidality, substance dependence or other disorders. However, over the years, data has emerged demonstrating that DBT is also effective for a wide range of other disorders and problems, most of which are associated with difficulties regulating emotions and associated cognitive and behavioral patterns. 

radical acceptance and change

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