StoryPlay® Life Skills Enrichment Program
Creative Activities That Inspire Children to Soar
We know that children have a driving need to expand their
awareness and to discover new possibilities at every turn of their
developmental process.
However, that natural curiosity often gets shrouded by stress,
expectations, demands, bullying, peer pressure, low self-esteem and
self-worth, and an overall disconnection from life’s joy.
One alarming statistic that points to these huge issues shows that
children with very low self-esteem are 1.6 times more likely to meet the
criteria for drug dependence than other children.
Recent bullying statistics show that 77% of children are bullied
mentally, verbally or physically with half of all bullying incidents going
unreported.
A tremendous necessity for cultivating resilience in children to
handle bullying, stress, behavior problems, and social challenges has
never been more apparent than now.
With a clear mission to inspire children to soar, the resiliency-based
StoryPlay® Life Skills Enrichment Program, provides proven creative
strategies and experiential tools that will show children how to overcome
obstacles, enhance emotional literacy, and improve problem-solving skills.
StoryPlay® Life Skills Enrichment Program Benefits
- Achieve emotional wellness
- Connect with compassion
- Develop creative solutions for problem solving
- Overcome obstacles
- Discover inner strengths and resources
- Develop life skills and self-empowerment
- Increase confidence and self-esteem
- Build focus
- Reduce stress
- Foster resiliency
- Enhance self-acceptance
- Learn communication and socialization skills
- Make better choices and decisions
Each creative activity in the StoryPlay® Life Skills Enrichment Program
has the ability to successfully adapt to children with special needs. If a child
has more specific special needs and requirements, an aide or an instructional
assistant must be present.
StoryPlay® Life Skills Enrichment Program Features
StoryCrafts™ are motivational stories, metaphors, and specific creative
activities designed to inspire self-empowerment, resilience, problem-solving,
and emotional wellness in children.
For over two-decades, StoryCrafts have been successfully implemented
with children throughout the world in a variety of settings, cultures, languages
and age groups.
StoryCraft™ Highlights
1. Dreaming Pots – reconnecting children to those symbols of their dreams which
evoke joy, empowerment and self-appreciation.
2. Life Story Puzzles - providing an expressive tool for children to recognize each
aspect of their own unique personal story as an essential element of their life.
3. Collage of Determination – offering children a resourceful activity helping
them to connect with images that represent determination, which is a key aspect
for building self-confidence and success.
4. Identity Shield – an imaginative activity that identifies and brings forth the
symbols that best represent the essence of self- identity.
5. Gratitude Tree – designed to help children recognize, activate, and reconnect
to the feelings of thankfulness, appreciation, and gratefulness in their lives.
6. Butterfly Magic – intended to show children how the four passages of the
butterfly’s transformation can be an inspirational and practical model for
overcoming obstacles by staying connected to their inner gifts and unique
abilities.
7. Pathway to Success Map – shows children how to identify goals, overcome
obstacles and enhance inner resources.
To bring the StoryPlay® Life Skills Enrichment Program to your
school or organization, click here to send me an email or
you can call me at: 602.526.0004
To learn more about StoryPlay® and to read other StoryPlay® offerings
contact Dr. Joyce Mills, the founder and president of The StoryPlay® Center
in Scottsdale, Arizona.
