Students are increasingly challenged by social anxiety and have difficulty simply having conversations with other people.
If the topic is a difficult one or if there is conflict, the interaction is even more challenging and emotional.
How can you help students feel more confident advocating for themselves?
Help them talk with a parent or other adult about a conflict of ideas?
Teach them to start conversation with strangers who could be friends?
In this session, we’ll be introducing a well researched set of interpersonal effectiveness skills that can help students improve their communication and feel more confident interacting with others.
In our free webinar, Communication: complex but not complicated, you’ll learn:
3 key skills for difficult conversations
A strategy for understanding how to persuade others (or say no)
How to take the conflict out of difficult conversations
Speaker: Barbara Tsai Navarro, OTR/L, MSOT, MIM - CEO & CoFounder, HAERT Program
As a Mental Health Occupational Therapist, Barbara works with teens and families to manage teen depression and anxiety. She has also worked in the award winning El Camino Health ASPIRE program and Services for Brain Injury teaching clients life skills to thrive.
Barbara is passionate about empowering teens and the adults supporting them with Mental Wellness skills. She was tired of people needing hospitalization before they could get the help they needed.
Barbara cofounded the HAERT Program to provide a PREVENTATIVE solution to address the current mental health crisis.