Crosscurrents 2025
Half a Century of Heart: Reaching, Teaching & Celebrating Every Mind
In Person Workshops - Morning
Hannah Beach - Session AM 1
The Emotional Roots of Aggression and Anxiety:
Supporting Change and Building Resilient Kids
The Emotional Roots of Aggression and Anxiety:
Supporting Change and Building Resilient Kids
Our students are often entering our classrooms in survival mode and bringing with them behaviours that make it challenging for us to take the lead and build relationships with them. A child’s behaviour tells us something about their inner world - therefore examining what lies behind the behaviour is key to change. This session explores the roots of aggression and anxiety and offers practical suggestions for how we can support children and youth to find emotional rest. What can we do to address aggression and anxiety at its root instead of getting caught up in the cycle of managing symptoms so that we can jump off the exhausting hamster wheel of trying to fix behaviours over and over again—and instead look at how we can support the emotion that drives these challenging behaviours and work towards lasting change.
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Hannah Beach is an award-winning educator, author, emotional health consultant, and keynote speaker who speaks about the power of relationship and play worldwide. She is the co-author of the best-selling book "Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut-Down than Ever—and What We Can Do About It", with Tamara Neufeld Strijack, which has been translated into multiple languages internationally. She was recognized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2017 as one of five featured changemakers in Canada. You can find her at hannahbeach.ca.
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Hannah Beach - Relationship, Play, Resilience
This workshop does not have handouts.
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