How to Raise an Emotionally Agile Child

With Frances Easterbrook

This is Podcast 3 in a series of 3 podcasts

From here we explore, as mentioned – through a delicious mix of art, colours, words

and sometimes movement, to find out the pathway, the strategies and tools, for each

child to return to their place of inner peace.

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Perhaps a child has felt lonely and sad. Perhaps this child paints these emotions as

a mixture of yellow and blue colours. We explore them. We place them where the

child would like them to be, and then the child is able to re-set themselves by

returning home to their cosy nest. Their own unique sense of inner peace.

It is a beautiful, gentle, creative and nourishing process. And I am always honoured

to be able to work with young people I this way, and I am always inspired by what I

too learn in this nurturing process.

Podcast Two explores what emotional agility is and why, in this
Age of Uncertainty, it is now a necessity to raise an emotionally
agile child.
Frances defines emotional agility as having the following five
attributes:

1. Having an ability to notice, name, and process all
emotions – pleasant and unpleasant ones.

2. Self-awareness about what contexts/events/people are
triggering – and having strategies to deal with these.

3. Self-awareness of what brings out the best in one self.
Having self-awareness about what/where/who/how helps
create an inner sense of peace.

4. Having strategies to return to one’s inner sense of
peace, when events have moved one away from this
space.

5. Continually developing, through awareness, an ever-
growing window of tolerance to cope with challenges
and change, with calmness and confidence.

The podcast gently enquires into the difference between raising
a resilient child and raising a child with emotional agility. It is
acknowledged that there is an overlap.

This podcast explores how emotional agility empowers
children: to develop self-awareness of their emotions, insight
into pleasant and unpleasant emotions and insight into
experiences that are triggering. From there, the emotionally
agile child is also offered a tool box of strategies to re-set
themselves back to their safe place of inner peace.

Children’s brains are being moulded and shaped within these
unrelenting stressful times that are affecting us all.

Anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues have
shown an unprecedented rise amongst our young people,
in New Zealand and globally, in the past 5 years. General
statistics shows us that 1 in 5 children at primary school age
will suffer with at least one significant mental health issue. The
figures change to 1 in 3 for students at college.

Offering children, a program that teaches Emotional Agility, will
provide them with the skills and tools required for mental health
stability, which in turn, will empower children to be able to
focus, learn, make

How to Raise an Emotionally Agile Child

With Frances Easterbrook

This is Podcast 1 in a series of 3 podcasts

Podcast one explores what emotional agility is and why, in this Age of Uncertainty, it is now a necessity to raise an emotionally agile child.

Frances defines emotional agility as having the following five attributes:

1.   Having an ability to notice, name, and process all emotions – pleasant and unpleasant ones.

2.   Self-awareness about what contexts/events/people are triggering – and having strategies to deal with these.

3.   Self-awareness of what brings out the best in one self. Having self-awareness about what/where/who/how helps create an inner sense of peace.

4.   Having strategies to return to one’s inner sense of peace, when events have moved one away from this space.

5.   Continually developing, through awareness, an ever-growing window of tolerance to cope with challenges and change, with calmness and confidence. 

The podcast gently enquires into the difference between raising a resilient child and raising a child with emotional agility. It is acknowledged that there is an overlap.

This podcast explores how emotional agility empowers children: to develop self-awareness of their emotions, insight into pleasant and unpleasant emotions and insight into experiences that are triggering. From there, the emotionally agile child is also offered a tool box of strategies to re-set themselves back to their safe place of inner peace.  

Children’s brains are being moulded and shaped within these unrelenting stressful times that are affecting us all. 

Anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues have shown an unprecedented rise amongst our young people,in New Zealand and globally, in the past 5 years. General statistics shows us that 1 in 5 children at primary school age will suffer with at least one significant mental health issue. The figures change to 1 in 3 for students at college.

Offering children, a program that teaches Emotional Agility, will provide them with the skills and tools required for mental health stability, which in turn, will empower children to be able to focus, learn, make friends and thrive in this turbulent world.

What is Dyslexia? Podcast 6
Summary of previous 5 podcasts including ways to support, definition of dyslexia, unique wiring of the brain, myths and misbelief, sensitivity, passion and effort required for support and teaching for people whom live with dyslexia.

This is a series of 6 podcasts, that get to the nitty gritty of: What is Dyslexia?

These podcasts are for all of you out there - parents, teachers, and older students, who are involved in the world of Dyslexia.

Top educationist, Frankie Easterbrook, breaks down this complex learning difference into clear points, that we can all understand.

All Frankie’s podcasts follow her warm hearted, non-judgmental, compassionate, and living in the real world – approach to learning: all wrapped up in the latest science and years of experience

In this podcast Frankie explores both the learning, and the emotional needs for the student with Dyslexia.

Frankie also introduces the key reasons why all children with dislexia need to be taught a Gold phonics program.

This is a series of 6 podcasts, that get to the nitty gritty of: What is Dyslexia?

These podcasts are for all of you out there - parents, teachers, and older students, who are involved in the world of Dyslexia.

Top educationist, Frankie Easterbrook, breaks down this complex learning difference into clear points, that we can all understand.

All Frankie’s podcasts follow her warm hearted, non-judgmental, compassionate, and living in the real world – approach to learning: all wrapped up in the latest science and years of experience.

This is a series of 6 podcasts, that get to the nitty gritty of: What is Dyslexia?

These podcasts are for all of you out there - parents, teachers, and older students, who are involved in the world of Dyslexia.
Top educationist, Frankie Easterbrook, breaks down this complex learning difference into clear points, that we can all understand.
All Frankie’s podcasts follow her warm hearted, non-judgmental, compassionate, and living in the real world – approach to learning: all wrapped up in the latest science and years of experience.

Podcast 4 : How do we best support a child, student, or adult, for that matter, with
Dyslexia?

This is a series of 6 podcasts, that get to the nitty gritty of: What is Dyslexia?
These podcasts are for all of you out there - parents, teachers, and older students, who are involved in the world of Dyslexia.

Top educationist, Frankie Easterbrook, breaks down this complex learning difference into clear points, that we can all understand.

All Frankie’s podcasts follow her warm hearted, non-judgmental, compassionate, and living in the real world – approach to learning: all wrapped up in the latest science and years of experience.

What is Dyslexia? Podcast 3

In this podcast Frankie specifically explains the link between a glitch in phonological
awareness and how it impacts learning to read and spell.
This is at the heart of Dyslexia

This is a series of 6 podcasts, that get to the nitty gritty of: What is Dyslexia?
These podcasts are for all of you out there - parents, teachers, and older students, who are involved in the world of Dyslexia.
Top educationist, Frankie Easterbrook, breaks down this complex learning difference into clear points, that we can all understand.
All Frankie’s podcasts follow her warm hearted, non-judgmental, compassionate, and living in the real world – approach to learning: all wrapped up in the latest science and years of experience.

Podcast One: What is Dyslexia?
There are many definitions of Dyslexia. It is easy to get confused and overwhelmed.
This podcast gets to the crux of what defines Dyslexia.

This is a series of 6 podcasts, that get to the nitty gritty of: What is Dyslexia?
These podcasts are for all of you out there - parents, teachers, and older students, who are involved in the world of Dyslexia.
Top educationist, Frankie Easterbrook, breaks down this complex learning difference into clear points, that we can all understand.
All Frankie’s podcasts follow her warm hearted, non-judgmental, compassionate, and living in the real world – approach to learning: all wrapped up in the latest science and years of experience.

What is Dyslexia? Phonological Awareness and key criteria

Frankie explains the academic term: phonological awareness, so we can all get to grips with this term.
Why?...Because a glitch in phonological awareness is the key criteria to diagnose Dyslexia.
Stick with us – Frankie will explain....