I am so excited to bring Relax Kids to Adelaide! Relax Kids is a unique, award winning programme that aims to create calm, confident kids by working through 7 steps each week and a variety of ahhh-mazing resources. During a session we take children from a high energy to a low energy using movement, play, stretching, self or peer massage, breathing, positive affirmations and relaxing visualization.
Children attending Relax Kids sessions will have fun, make friends and develop skills to help deal with those big emotions - becoming calmer and more confident as a result.
Parents of children attending Relax Kids sessions will reap the rewards of their child's new ability to calm those Monster Feelings...as well as picking up lots of useful tools to help their children (and themselves!) to manage stress, anger and anxiety - now and in the future.
‘If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation’ The Dalai Lama
‘If I can help just one child or family, I will be more than happy with my Relax Kids Journey’ Ali Prescott - That's meee!!
So who is Ali?
Well... I am a wife, a Mummy to 3 very different children - 6, 5 & 2 and now a small business owner!
I was born and raised (no, not in Belair unfortunately - that would have been ace though!) in Northern England, UK. I have a degree in Applied Social Science & Social Ethics, a Post Graduate Degree in Careers Guidance & Education, Advice & Guidance Qualifications, various certificates in Child Safe Environments, Child Protection, First Aid, Communication Studies, the list goes on!
I love kids, and craft, and music and travel! I love people, and relationships and all things that make my soul happy! I’m an empathetic, kind and fun person to be around (most of the time!) :)
Up until now in my Career I have worked with teenagers and their families, offering both careers/education advice and guidance but also helping to break down any barriers that are in the way of them reaching their goals-issues such as drug and alcohol problems, health issues, family breakdown, teenage pregnancy, poverty, homelessness, stress and anger issues. These are all real issues that could potentially affect our children from reaching their life goals in the future. My latest role was working with children in the care system as a Participation Officer - I was the person helping to get their voices heard, and running projects to allow them to have fun, make friends and BELIEVE in themselves!
You see, I am always backing the underdog - the kids who feel they don’t fit in, the ones who find making friends hard, the ones with various difficulties who may feel dis-empowered, the ones who don’t have self -belief, the ones who might have given up if it wasn’t for that one person in their life outside of their family clearly standing in their corner, backing them and believing in them. I LOVE to see people achieve what they thought wasn't possible, to make positive changes in their lives and to BELIEVE in themselves. And that starts at an early age!
I moved to Adelaide 2 years ago, and have since been settling my little ones in to their new life. I have had time to really think about what I want from my work life, and from life in general. And I realised that a lot of the issues that I have seen in the children and families that I have worked with - could have been lessened, or even eliminated completely- if those children and families had been taught mindfulness. Been taught how to go from full on Anger to Cool and Calm with some simple techniques. Taught about the impact of their words and actions on others feelings, and how not to let the small things bother them.
And that is where I am at right now!
I want your children to believe that they can overcome those big emotions, that they can learn tools to help them regulate their emotions. That is is okay to FEEL like that, but there are also ways to acknowledge that feeling, and then calmly and quickly manage those feelings and move to a happier, more positive frame of mind!
I can’t wait to meet you all. I cant wait to have FUN with you all. And I can’t WAIT to see the small steps of progression to create lots of wonderful calm, confident kids!
