The DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme
Help your child to build their self-esteem, express their emotions, cope better with difficult life situations, bounce back after setbacks, and achieve success at school by building their emotional resilience.
What is Emotional Resilience?
Emotional resilience refers to our ability to cope, adapt to stressful situations or changes and to learn from our experiences in life. Whilst more resilient people can adapt to adversity fairly easily, for others, it can be more difficult to cope with stress, challenges, or big life changes outside of our control.
Meet your Instructor:
Stephanie O’Malley BA(Psych); MA(EdPsych), is passionate about giving every child at least one mentor in their lives who they can emotionally connect with, which is particularly important in early childhood to enable the development of emotional resilience in life.
As an educational psychologist for over 15 years, Stephanie developed a real concern when she started noticing more children who were disengaging from school, from friends, and important relationships in their lives, often falling under the radar and children who were acting out to communicate their needs. It was from her passion and desire to try and help to meet the social and emotional needs of children around her that DESTY was born.
As busy parents, teachers, and carers in an overwhelming, technology-filled world, Stephanie’s goal is to equip the key people in children’s lives with the tools, training, and support needed to reconnect with children and to help them understand themselves and their feelings, how to cope with hard situations, and the ability to ask for help when needed.
“The DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme provided me with invaluable and easy to understand information about emotional resilience right from the start. It has developed my own emotional resilience and has also given me the tools to empower the children I work with to become more resilient in their everyday lives.”
— Sinead Keating, Educator, Longfield Academy, Co. Tipperary
Does your child or a child in your care:
Have difficulty expressing his or her emotional needs?
Become anxious when not in the company of parents or carers?
Become easily frustrated and prone to angry outbursts?
Seem to display attention-seeking behaviour?
Highly sensitive or dependent on what other think of him or her?
Often have meltdowns at home, school or in public places?
If you recognise any of the above, your child or a child in your care may need support from you to develop their emotional resilience. This online course is for you if you are a parent, grandparent, carer or educator who is committed to supporting children with their emotional needs, particularly those within the 4-11 year age range.
Enroll on the DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme now and help your child to thrive and reach their full potential, improve their self-esteem, express their emotions, cope better with difficult life situations, bounce back after setbacks, and achieve success at school by building their emotional resilience.
What is included in The DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme?
Upon enrolment, you will be given access to a comprehensive and interactive training course that consists of:
Self-paced, video based course
Live online workshops and Q&A sessions
Supplementary worksheets and resources to help you easily process the lessons
Ongoing technical support
Practical tools and techniques
Certificate of Completion
AND A BONUS DESTY TOOLKIT*
(DESTY Teddy and Set of Feeling Cards upon competion of course)
All for only €250/£250
Contact us for more information:
Training@educationdesty.com
Course Bonus:
DESTY Resilience Toolkit
The DESTY Emotional Resilience Course also includes a DESTY Teddy and Feeling Cards
to accompany each course purchased
The DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme
How Will This Programme Help Me?
By the end of this programme our goal is for you to feel empowered and confident, fully equipped with the necessary tools to support your child and the children in your care to become emotionally resilient so that they can:
Capably express their feelings and thoughts, without the need to “flip their lids” or have a meltdown.
Gain the ability to keep on trying, even when something doesn’t work out.
Process strong feelings without becoming overwhelmed by them.
Gain the important ability to be able to ask for help when needed to accomplish their goals.
Rearrange their plans to work around the unexpected, because life can be unpredictable.
Develop an understanding of themselves and the situations that may trigger them.
Learn the strategies used by Stephanie O’Malley, an educational psychologist with over 15 years of experience transforming the lives of children and their families and help the children to thrive so they can reach their potential.
DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme Course Shedule:
Units 1-6
In the first half of the course we’ll cover:
How we can support ourselves and our children to understand why feelings can boil over to create messy situations and what we can do about it;
The important role that the ability to form and maintain healthy emotional bonds plays in children’s lives;
Practical strategies to help develop healthy emotional bonds (secure attachments) with our own children or children within our care;
Insecure attachments, how they can hinder a child’s emotional development, how they develop, and how to recognise them in a child’s behaviour;
The importance that figures such as grandparents, teachers, or childminders play in a child’s emotional resilience and how this can help children to achieve academic success at school.
Units 7-13
In the second half of the course we’ll cover:
A simple and practical model of the brain that explains how we take in and process information, and how this affects our responses and reactions to situations;
Toxic stress and how it can have a damaging effect on our learning, behaviour, and health;
Simple strategies we can use to help calm children during stressful situations;
Why emotional intelligence is important and how we can help children to express their feelings in a fun way using the DESTY Feelings cards.
Strategies for developing emotional resilience in children and ourselves so that our children can learn from us most effectively.
Strategies for your emotional resilience toolkit to use in everyday life to support you in your emotional resilience.
What Makes the DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme Different?
Unlike other courses that simply teach techniques to manage challenging behaviour and situations, this course focuses on the root causes of the problems seen in children and how we can help. It is only when we look at the whole picture and understand what causes emotional struggles in our children that we can have the confidence to know exactly what is needed to support them in the best possible way. Below are just a handful of the positive comments we have received from people who have previously completed the course:
The DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme
“The best training that I have done to-date.”
— Mary McHugh, Sligo City Schools Completion Programme
“A vital programme for anyone who has or works with children.”
— Abby Souter, Thomas Whitehead Academy, Bedfordshire
“Enlightening, empowering and uplifting, this programme has certainly given me confidence and knowledge I didn’t have before.”
— Mikaela Manning, Carer, West Molesey
“The course has helped me to be calmer and more empathetic when I'm in stressful situations and I am now able to model these skills for my children.”
— Yvette Govan, Parent, Middlesex
“There are so many practical and useful elements to this course even if you never worked with children. This course could teach everyone how to better care for themselves and their mental health in the busy world we live in. Stephanie has a way of explaining how our brain works in such an interesting manner that is so easily understood that you instantly relate to everyday events in your own experience.”
— Ellese Phipps, Head of Inclusion, Dubai
The DESTY Emotional Resilience Programme
Frequently Asked Questions
How much time do I need to commit to completing the course?
The course has been designed for you to study at your own pace, whether you only have a few minutes a day to spare or if you would prefer a more intensive learning experience. There are 6 hours of course material in total, broken down into short video-based lessons.
I’m a busy parent/carer/teacher, will I have time to complete this course?
Absolutely! Even if you can only spare 20 minutes a day, you should be able to complete the course in under 3 weeks.
I’m not good with technology, is this course for me?
Yes! You don’t need to be a technology expert to take the course, it’s easily accessible. Once you log into the course, you’ll see how simple the system is and how the easy the lessons are to follow. The team at DESTY are also with you every step of the way so you can reach out to us if there is anything you need support with.
What happens if I don’t understand something in the course or need assistance?
Don’t worry we are here to help you! We can offer you further support through our live chat feature, via email or you can even book a support call at no extra charge.
Who is this course for?
This course is for you if you are a parent, grandparent, foster carer, teacher, or other professionalwho is committed to supporting children with their emotional needs, particularly those within the 4-11 year age range.