At KDance we recognise that our young people are under more pressure than any previous generation. Effects of lockdown persist and the ongoing impact of social media is more intense than ever. We mean to provide our youth the opportunity to open up to self acceptance and change negative behaviours, allowing them to transform and flourish with a more positive mindset.
50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24. 10% of children and young people (aged 5 to 16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem, yet 0% of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age.
KDance is comitted to building a well-being sector into our business and understands that for this to have maximum effect our staff need training and guidance from an expert.
We have discovered a programme called The Butterfly Mind led by Kim Rodgers. Kim is an ex professional singer / dancer turned full time dance teacher, a transformation coach, mental health first aider and NLP practitioner.
She has designed a programme that will train enough people in her methods to have a wide ranging impact on our community at large. Imagine if all the people who volunteer or work professionaly with young children had an understanding about the symptoms of anxiety and how to help them manage it.
She also offers a 6 hour workshop for up to 35 young people aged 10 to 25 designed to focus on all aspects of their mindset. This includes mental, physical and emotional well being.
We wish to offer these opportunities to all our students at no financial cost to them and need your help to make this happen.
£1500 will secure:
90 days training for myself to create a lasting strategy for our dance and drama school ensuring that what we learn from the programme is benefited by our young people for many years to come.
6 hours teacher training. This will include all of our teachers and volunteers meaning that what they learn can be implemented in other clubs / schools as well.
6 hour butterfly worskhop. An empowering workshop for up to 35 young people aged 10 to 25. This workshop is not only movement based but will include visual and auditory learning as well.
If you feel like you can help with all or part of this cost we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch with me by email, kim@kdance.co.uk to discuss this further.
I know there are many business owners out there who will feel very passionate about helping us acheive this goal for our young people and look forward to discovering what we can do for you in return.
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