Anxiety and Stress TeachMeet

'The Neuroscience behind Stress in a Nutshell' was held via Zoom on Thursday 2 September 3.45pm-5pm, and was facilitated by Susie Harcourt, Educational Psychologist from the Ministry of Education.

This interactive session, introduced some key ideas around what’s happening in kids’ brains, and our own, when we feel anxious and try to cope in stressful situations.  The Trauma and the Brain Hand Model was used to simply illustrate these concepts. 

(https://www.theholler.org/the-brain-hand-model, 2021)

The session then explored what the stress response can look like in the classroom using the 4 F's - Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn, and outlined a simple framework for understanding how to help kids in stress response using the 4 R's - Reframe, Regulate, Relate and Reason. 

More information along with other support resources can be found here.