Empowering Your Child to Understand and Manage Emotions
The Interoception Self-Regulation Group helps children improve their ability to recognize and manage their emotions by learning to understand how emotions feel in their bodies. Many children struggle to connect physical sensations, like a racing heart or tight stomach, with emotions like anxiety. This group teaches children to identify these body signals and use strategies to feel more comfortable.
Based on Kelly Mahler’s Interoception Curriculum, the group focuses on developing interoception—our “8th sense”—which helps us feel what’s happening inside our bodies. By building this awareness, children gain better emotional regulation and self-control. This group is perfect for children needing extra support with emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Goals may include:
- Explore lessons to understand how their body, emotions, and actions are connected.
- Take part in interactive activities to recognize body signals in different parts of the body.
- Discuss how specific body signals relate to different emotions and why they happen.
- Learn and practice strategies to help regulate their emotions and feel better.
Your child/youth is likely to benefit from the program if they:
- Have difficulty connecting body signals to emotions
- Struggle to identify coping strategies for self-calming
- Could benefit from guided exploration of feel-good activities
- Enjoy hands-on, interactive activities
This program is supervised by a Grandview Kids’ Occupational Therapist and run by Grandview Kids’ Therapy Assistants.
Participants who might benefit from this group:
- Between the ages of 9-12
- Benefit from explicit direction in the program topics
- Be able to manage in a group environment with a 6:2 client-to-staff ratio
- Have a reliable method of communicating their wants and needs
- Are able to remain in an enclosed location and/or respect a closed-door
- Show respect to self, peers, and adults
Details:
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025, to April 8, 2025
Time: 5:00 – 6:15 p.m.
Location: New Grandview Kids, located at 1461 Harwood Ave North in Ajax.
Cost per participant: $1,280.00
Cancellation Policy:
Program fees are eligible for OAP Core Clinical Services budgets. Please note fees for this group are non-refundable if cancelled.
If you have questions, please email PurchasedServices@grandviewkids.ca or call us at 905-728-1673 (toll-free at 1-800-304-6180) and press “5” to connect with the Purchased Services Team.
