This three day school holiday camp for children and teens combines elements from our after school courses:

• Tomorrow’s Leaders: Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills for Kids

• Confident Kids Course

• Public Speaking Course for Kids

The school holiday camp is designed to engage participants with content that provides powerful life and communication skills, through lessons, challenges and activities.

10 am - 3 pm

Bring Your Own Lunch

Got Questions? Call Sophie 0477 182 555

Places are limited

LAST CHANCE: All courses in Australia will cease May 2024.

Please be aware that these are mixed age/ability camps; each term, courses can vary in participants' age/ability. The content covered is the same taught to adults, presented in a format understandable for children aged seven and upwards. It applies to all ages/abilities. If your child/children will likely refuse to attend because they will be among younger children, please think twice before booking.

Mixed-aged courses are offered for multiple reasons, including:

• Inclusivity

• Courses form a relatively small component of my work; therefore, time limitations prevent offering additional courses.

• Split-aged courses have not gathered enough (older) students to be sustainable, and trials have previously incurred financial loss.

• Mixed-age learning develops tolerance, patience and emotional maturity, essential for emotional intelligence–a key topic of several of my courses/camps.

• Students under 16 are not permitted to join adult courses.

Please Note: I run a public speaking course for families, where adults and children aged seven and upwards learn together. Children need to be accompanied by adults, and adults need to be accompanied by children.

Communication Skills and Confidence Building Camp for Kids

Curriculum Overview

Through lessons, challenges and activities, participants will learn about, practise and develop skills and knowledge in communication, confidence building and emotional intelligence. Lessons and activities often overlap across the key areas of the curriculum.

Communication Skills

• Public speaking skills and practise

• Vocal power

• Body language and facial expression

• Questioning techniques and practise

• The art of conversation

• Understanding others

Confidence Building

• The art of conversation

• Body-brain feedback loop–triggering positive emotion and inner feelings of confidence

• Resetting the calm state–mindfulness meditation and abdominal breathing

• Team building challenge

• Public speaking practise

Emotional Intelligence

Self-awareness, self-regulation, understanding others, relationship management

• Emotions–understanding and managing our core emotions and how we respond

• Understanding/accepting strengths and weaknesses

• Body-brain feedback loop–triggering positive emotion and inner feelings of confidence

• Resetting the calm state–mindfulness meditation and abdominal breathing

• Reading body language

• Reading facial expressions of emotion

• Team building

Course Facilitator

Sophie Zadeh

Based in Perth, Sophie works with leaders in government and industry giants, including Woodside, Rio Tinto and Alcoa. She has featured across news and media platforms, including ABC radio, The West Australian, The CEO Magazine, Seven News Media and Foxtel Networks.

Sophie has coached public speakers and TEDx presenters to convey their message with impact. She has worked with TED-ED to create a lesson about emotional expression–Are There Universal Expressions of Emotion?

Recently, Sophie's blog ranked in the top five body language blogs on the web.