TEEN RESILIENCE PRESENTATION Helping Students Develop Response-Ability kf@katefitzsimons.com | +61 400 478 788
TEEN RESILIENCE PRESENTATION: YEARS 10-12 Your talk was different... “I was really inspired by your speech. I don’t usually connect to talks like that. However I felt like yours was completely different… it’s like you could read my mind. It left me shocked because the whole thing made sense and your presentation has really stuck in my mind.” — Student, Idaho Falls High Since overcoming her own adversity in such a positive way, Kate’s passion is teaching teens that through the power of their perspective they always have a choice in how they respond to challenges in life. Her presentation shares her journey of going from a grieving sister battling an eating disorder to one of Australia’s 100 Women of Infmuence. Kate’s powerful story grabs student’s attention and she keeps them engaged by combining it with useful strategies to help them improve their ‘’response-ability’’ to stress and struggles they face as teens. Click below to watch Kate in action and the impact she has with students! Kate doesn’t just give your students sixty minutes of inspiration, but ongoing support to keep growing their resilience skills with post-presentation resources and her weekly podcast show for teens, “Okay. Now What?” . It was very life changing and inspiring. Your speech brought me to tears and was very touching. I’ve been changing myself for the better and your speech just helped push me in my journey of self acceptance. It was very life changing and inspiring. - Year 11 Student Testimonial
TEEN RESILIENCE PRESENTATION: 1 HOUR DURATION This presentation combines Kate’s expertise as a certifjed life coach with her powerful journey of rebuilding her life after the loss of her sister. It focuses on teaching students about the power of their ‘’ response-ability ’’ - which is their ability to choose their response to any situation based on their perspective of it. Through her humor, humility and unique ability to connect with teens, Kate empowers students to choose to search for the good in every situation so they can fjnd strength they need to turn their struggles into an opportunity to learn and grow. This heartfelt and relateable presentation has such an impact on students that by the time they walk out the doors from it, they will understand how to never feel helpless again. OUTCOMES Students will develop resilience through: I’m a Year 11 student at Nowra • Recognising and evaluating the impact High School. I would first like to of negative thoughts and self-talk say a very big thank you for the • Understanding cognitive-behaviour amazing presentation. connection between their thoughts, You really touched my heart and feelings and reactions helped me to understand that I • Learning a simple tool to change unhelpful can change my thoughts. Your thoughts and reframe negative beliefs presentation really made me think • Strategies to develop a growth mindset about my thoughts and how I can during adversity change it from negative to positive. • Core beliefs of Resilient people I feel like you have really inspired • Knowing where and who to ask for help me and others in my year. You are truly inspiring and an amazing Cost: $975 (including travel) role model to look up to. You have Cost includes Post-Presentation Resources: made me look at my thoughts in a Downloadable Resilience Toolkit for students, different perspective and I’m really school posters, class workshop for teachers and grateful for it, thank you so much! a motivational quote card for every student. - Year 11 Student Testimonial
TESTIMONIALS Kate’s presentation inspired me... We recently had Kate come We recently had Kate come to deliver her most to deliver her most inspiring inspiring presentation. For me as a cycling athlete presentation. For me as a I struggle quite a lot with mental challenges. cycling athlete I struggle When I competed in U19 National Championships quite a lot with mental I had someone crash into my back wheel leaving it challenges. When I competed mangled and behind everyone else. I suffered many in U19 National Championships weeks after that in a depression mode, like I wasn’t I had someone crash into my good enough and people had lost hope in me. But back wheel leaving it mangled Kate’s presentation inspired me to see the positives and behind everyone else. I in every circumstance. That what happened to me suffered many weeks after at Nationals happened to make me stronger and that in a depression mode, more resilient. I came home that night and smashed like I wasn’t good enough and out my session repeating her inspiring words in my people had lost hope in me. head and it’s the best I have felt in weeks! Kate really But Kate’s presentation inspired changed my life! And I can’t thank her enough for it! me to see the positives in Emily Mascaro, Year 11 Student every circumstance. That what Santa Maria College, Perth happened to me at Nationals I’m so thankful... happened to make me stronger and more resilient. I came home “Thank you so much for coming and speaking at that night and smashed out my Rigby High. I will remember your presentation for the session repeating her inspiring rest of my life. Even just driving home after school I words in my head and it’s the was so thankful for every breath I was taking.’” best I have felt in weeks! Kate - Student, Idaho Falls High really changed my life! And I can’t thank her enough for it! This will have a positive effect... Emily Mascaro, Year 11 Student “High school can be rough, for some more than Santa Maria College, Perth others and I really think this is going to have a positive effect on our school.’’ - Rigby High School
TESTIMONIALS I’ve noticed a drastic change... and giving personal and insightful strategies that students can employ immediately. “I am so grateful you were able to come Positive student feedback shows it was to the US. Since your presentation, I have valuable and applicable. This is a program noticed a drastic change in the attitude that I will use with future year groups of my peers, and it’s all thanks to you!’’ without hesitation. - Idaho Falls High Student Phil Ryan, Leader of Senior Students, Corpus Christi Catholic High School, Oak Flats Dramatic impact... “You have made a dramatic impact in the lives of many here, including my own.” - Idaho Falls High School You changed my outlook... “A lot of times I struggle with anxiety so hearing what you said on how I can change my outlook on situations and how that can change my attitude really changed my perceptions.” - Student, Idaho Falls High Schoo Kate’s personal and heart wrenching story described the tragic loss of her Your talk was different... sister, Nicole, and her struggles to cope. ‘’I was really inspired by your speech. I Kate shared a range of strategies that don’t usually connect to talks like that. she found effective and skilfully related However I felt like yours was completely these to situations in which our Year 9 - different… it’s like you could read my 12 students might fjnd themselves. mind. It left me shocked because the Kate’s clear and resounding message was whole thing made sense and your that in every circumstance thoughts are presentation has really stuck in my momentary and that one chooses which mind.’’ thoughts to focus on; that unhelpful, - Idaho Falls High negative thoughts can be changed. Kate motivated our students to understand Extremely relevant and valuable... that a growth and not fjxed mindset is I cannot thank Kate enough for coming to necessary to be able to cope with life’s speak to our Year 11 students and sharing inevitable challenges and that changing her resilience toolkit, or recommend her your thinking to change your feelings is a highly enough to other schools. Her choice we can all make. We look forward presentation was extremely relevant to Kate’s presentation next year. and timely, targeting the stresses that Gai Bath, School Counsellor, students experience during their HSC, St Mary’s College, Hobart
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