Friendship Groups

Our friendship groups are carefully coordinated to provide opportunities for students to learn the necessary social skills to create and maintain meaningful relationships in their lives. Through repetitive practice of effective communication techniques, we come together to collaboratively solve problems while learning important social skills. Every individual comes in with a different set of skills and a different set of needs. We work from a strengths based approach to achieve mastery of social communication skills and build confidence while learning. 

We believe that everyone could benefit from social coaching. Whether it's a lack of knowledge in one specific area, or a variety of areas, our social coaching provides a knowledge base to engage in more enriching conversations that allow each of us to thrive and feel more understood!

We mindfully customize the curriculum for each group's needs, but some of the skills we work on during our sessions can include:

• Awareness of and understanding of verbal and non verbal communication
• Active listening
• Conversational skills and social reciprocity
  • initiating conversation, exiting conversation, finding common interests
• Learning different perspective taking strategies
• Problem solving and conflict resolution skills
• Growth vs Fixed Mindsets
• Understanding non-literal language such as sarcasm, analogies, and metaphors
• The process of creating, developing, and maintaining friendships and relationships
• Handling rejection and rumors
• Understanding and improving communication through texts and social media
• Lowering social anxiety through improved social skills

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