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