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Chrissie Perry: Good Enough

Session Info:

  • There’s currently a great deal of pressure on kids and it starts from when they’re very young.
  • Academic pressure, extra-curricular pressure and social/emotional pressure.
  • Everyone wants young students to achieve their potential, but the layers of stress can thwart and immobilize rather than raise and encourage.
  • My middle-grade series ‘Penelope Perfect’ deals with a main character who strives for excellence. A character who works herself into a lather over the smallest of things. Yet, like the real life girls she emulates, Penelope is wonderful, talented and feisty.
  • Through readings, role plays and FUN, students will be encouraged to assess the pitfalls of Penelope’s attitudes and approaches, and give her advice on how to achieve without maximum stress.
  • Then, they can take on their own advice without any force feeding or didacticism.

Topics Covered:

  • Self acceptance
  • Positives and negatives of perfectionism
  • Ideas for managing anxiety
  • How to help an anxious friend
  • The different faces of success

This session was co-created by Chrissie Perry and Tony Wilson who offers the same session tailored for early primary.