For Classes 1st grade to 12th grade (6 years to 18 years)
These Programs are Developed and Created By Dr. Anisha Mahendrakar after careful analysis, Pilot -Programs and Field-Experience. They are all are Copy-Writed , and any form of Plagiarism or copying with be dealt with ,strictly and legal action will be taken.
All workshops/training programs will be conducted with relevant legal paper-work, giving due mention and credit to the institutions /individuals/sponsors requesting them.
Student programs (1st std to 12th) – explained in detail
Parenting Skills (discussion sessions for parents, std wise) – explained in detail
Nurturing Workshops (for Teachers , std wise) – explained in detail.
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Safety Schooling
“SAFE SPACES : The Safe-Child Intervention-Awareness Program”
Every Child is Somebody’s entire world, and let us join hands to make that world safe and secure.
The Intervention Program is to be conducted for students between the age of 6 years and 16years. Each segment is carefully designed and planned, to cater to the child, depending on his/er psychological level of understanding and assimilation. The entire program will be conducted by the Expert Trainer only; occasionally, an associate psychologist will be invited to assist.
However, each segment can be further customized as per the requirements of the student group.
The following is a brief outline of the intervention-awareness program, along with a brief idea of the type of interaction and Questions answered. (these Questions are picked from the Most commonly asked Questions, while the workshop was conducted)
This program is child-centric, following this, the institution/group may opt to have “nurturing” workshop for the faculty/staff/teachers, where they will learn to understand and effectively deal with child situations, and “parenting skills” workshop for the Parents, to understand the needs of
their growing children and adapt effectively.
1st and 2nd Std (6-7years)
Sessions Conducted : 1
Session Duration : 30 mins
• Basic Hygiene
• NO-STOP-RUN
• Body rules
• Reporting to adults
Common Questions Asked by the Children:
• Can my Grandparents touch me while helping me dress?
• What to do if an aunt or uncle holds us too tight?
• Sometimes I am kissed, even on my lips…..is that wrong?
• My older siblings pull my pants down while I am walking or playing, and laugh at me. What should I do? I feel very bad…is it bad?
• My mother never listens to me, but always believes my older sibling. What should I do?
• I fell very tired all the time…. I do not want to attend my piano class. I want to play. Can you tell my mother?
• If breakfast is the most important meal of the day…..why don’t my parents have breakfast?
• I like cooked food, but we eat outside a lot. Can you ask my mummy to cook food at home?
Please Note : Children are encouraged to ask the trainer/facilitator whatever comes to their mind. This makes the child feel listened to and also for the psychologist make a note of the situation the child is in. This helps in identifying potentially dangerous situations and providing prevention counselling,
also identifying problem areas in the child’s development. It helps in re-structuring the nurturing
environment as per the needs of the child. ‘Prevention is better than Cure’
3rd and 4th Std (8-9years)
Sessions Conducted : 2 (1 hour)
Session Duration : 30 mins each session
• Basic Hygiene
• NO-STOP-RUN
• Body rules
• Food habits and reading food labels
• Naming the body parts – functions
• Watching too much television or using screen is bad. Why?
Methodology Used :
• Sing songs
• Interactive Play
• Expressive Stories
• Discussion and Story sharing
Common Questions Asked by the Children:
• Can my parents hit me, when they are angry, even if I am not wrong?
• Why cannot I sleep with my elder sibling? I love holding hands with them?
• My relatively squeeze me to much. How do I tell them to stop, without my mother getting angry?
• Why do we have so many funny nick names given to ‘private parts’?
• If television and ipads are bad, why do my parents give it to all the time?
• I want mummy to cook at home, but we always eat outside. How to tell her?
• My father yells a lot; I don’t like it. How do I yell back at him properly?
• If my father beats my mother, can I also beat him?
• Why am I always blamed for what my little brother does?!
• I hate chocolates. How do I tell this to my grandparents?
• I want to live with my best friend, how do we convince our mothers about this?
• Sometimes when I wear my inner wear, it feels wet. Is that ok?
• If it burns while I am peeing, what do I do?
• My friends tease me, saying I am fat. How do I tease them about being so ugly?
• I want to be tall, how to become tall fast?
(Separate sessions for boys and girls henceforth)
5th and 6th Std (10-11years)
Sessions Conducted : 2 (2 hours)
Session Duration : 1 hour per session
• Basic Hygiene
• Body parts and their functions
• Body rules
• Puberty changes- what to expect?
• Societal gender roles – why?
• Balancing what one desires and what one is expected to do.
• What are feelings and emotions?
• Nutrition and exercise.
• Communication with elders at home and siblings
• Peer relationships and how to balance them
• Multiple Intelligence
• Identifying Abuse
• Reporting
Methodology Used :
• Role -Plays
• Expressive Stories
• Power –Statements with Actions
• Self- Questionnaire
• Interactive Discussions and Exploration
Common Questions Asked by the Children:
• How do I hit back strongly?
• If my friend is wearing bras, I am not wearing, who is wrong?
• My friends ask me play football, but I like painting. Is something wrong with me?
• I enjoy watching WWF. So what?
• I want to use my sister’s make-up. Is it wrong to put make-up. If yes, then why is she allowed to put make-up?
• why do girls get so much attention suddenly?
• Girls suddenly look fat and huge. Is something wrong with them?
• Is it wrong to eat one chocolate everyday?
• My best friend is a girl. I want to hug her. I feel shy. What to do?
• I want to keep a pet. Can u tell my father to buy me one?
• If my friend does not listen to me, can I leave her?
• Is it ok to have two best friends?
• I like playing with boys. They make me laugh. Am I wrong in wanting it?
• My uncles always touches my back, I don’t like it. Can I ask my dog to bite him?
• Why doesn’t my father play with me anymore? Am I bad girl?
• I like playing with my private parts, it feels nice. Is it wrong? Because my father saw and beat me up.
• I like watching songs, but my mother scolds. Who is wrong?
• I don’t like hugging anybody. My friends purposely tickle and hug me. How do I ask them to stop?
• What to do when your friend forces you to do something, you don’t like. Example eating certain foods.
• I am a girl, can I play football?
• If you kiss on the lips, will you have a baby?
• Why don’t boys bleed or wear bras?
• Can I be friends with a girl, even if I am a boy?
Please Note :At this stage of development, children are very curious and have their own ideas and perceptions they would derived based on how adults treat them. It is important to engage in heathy discussion to clear their doubts and clarify the information. They will be socially conscious and the peer-group-relations will begin to gain more prominence at this stage. They experience stress and force, in their immediate groups. They need to be aware of having healthy perceptions of relationships.
7th and 8thStd (12-13years)
Sessions Conducted : 3 (3 hours)
Session Duration : 1 hour per session
• Basic Hygiene
• Body rules
• Puberty changes- what to expect?
• What happens inside the body?
• What are hormones?
• Mood-swings and impulsive behavior
• Societal gender roles – why?
• What are feelings and emotions?
• Nutrition and exercise.
• Communication with elders at home and siblings.
• How to decide and make good friends?
• Why do you do, what you do?
• How to cope with expectations of those around you?
• Using social media safely.
• Bullying and teasing. How to respond?
• Boy-friends and Girl-friends
• How to maintain peer groups?
• Identifying Abuse
• Reporting
Methodology Used :
• Role -Plays
• Expressive Stories
• Power –Statements with Actions
• Activity based Learnings
• Interactive Discussions and Exploration
Common Questions Asked by the Children:
• Can I play rough sports even if I am on my periods?
• How to hit guys and not get hurt?
• Why should I change my pad every 5 hours, even if it is not completely used?
• Why should I shop for new inner wear every 6-8 months?
• Why cannot I wear tight pants?! They look so cool!
• My father drinks alcohol every day. I sneak and taste it sometimes. Will I become a drunkard like this?
• My friend likes my brother. Should I break off with her?
• My mother likes my brother more. What should I do?
• My friends tell me that I must stroke my private parts to feel good during stress, I find it yuck. What do you say?
• I want to drink coffee every day. Is it safe?
• My sister got married recently. Is she having sex with him, like in the movies?!
• I have a boyfriend. Should we kiss to make it official?
• I want to stay with my grandmother. I don’t like my parents. Am I bad person?
• My parents are getting divorced. What exactly does that mean?
• Is it wrong to kiss? Then why do so many people do it?
• How do I open a face-book account without my parents knowing?
• I want a cell-phone. What to do?
• Too many girls like me. I like it. Is liking this wrong? I am not with any particular girl though!
• Why should boys always pay?
• My friends tease me about my complexion, I don’t like it. If I leave them, I will not have friends. What to do?
• My friends don’t like me always. How do I make them like me?
Please Note : At this stage of development, children feel the peer pressure slowly increasing, and are wrought with stress and confusion. It is important to engage in heathy discussion to clear their doubts and clarify the information. They will be socially conscious and body-conscious. They will have more questions about the hygiene due to new experiences of puberty. They will always be conscious of being politically or ethically right! And most of their confusions stem from inter-personal relationship management. The parents will slowly be put on the back-burner as the child is busy experiencing him/er self and trying to get more clarity about their identity. They are constantly seeking positive reinforcements for their choices, decisions and behavior. They become suddenly interested in pleasing others and are stressed about balancing their own desires and the demands of the others around them
9th and 10th Std (14-15years)
Sessions Conducted : 4 (4 hours)
Session Duration : 1 hour per session
• Basic Hygiene
• Body rules
• Puberty changes- what happens?
• Bodily changes and why?
• Hormones-how it affects us
• Difference between thinking of male and female.
• Evolutionary biological reasons for social behavior
• Peer pressure
• Cyber crime
• Bullying and teasing
• Social media
• Goal-setting
• Time-management
• Role models. Why?
• Handling Stress and Exams
• Nutrition and exercise
• Communication
• Self-defense points
• Relationships with the opposite sex.
• Self-respect in Relationships
• Self-confidence and positive body image
• Feelings. Is it wrong to feel certain things?
• Impulsive and depressive behavior
• Identifying Abuse
• Reporting
Methodology Used :
• Role -Plays
• Expressive Stories
• Power –Statements with Actions
• Self- Questionnaire
• Interactive Discussions and Exploration
Common Questions Asked by the Children:
• Is it normal for me to start my periods late?
• Why am I becoming fat?! Will I become thin again?
• I am a boy. I have pimples!! What to do?
• My father wants me to become an engineer. I don’t want to. How to convince him?
• I feel like running away from home. Is it ok?
• I plan very nicely, but I never can follow that! Help?
• I have had two girlfriends; my present girl friend is now upset about that. How do I convince her?
• How do I convince my girlfriend to let me hold her hand?
• Pregnancy will happen only if we have sex, can be cuddle then?
• My mother thinks I have a boyfriend. I don’t!! why can’t she stop teasing me?
• My father smokes, I am tempted. What do I do? Will I get addicted after one time also?
• All my friends have good mobiles, mine is second hand. How do I convince my parents?
• I always feel I am poor. What to do?
• I stammer a lot when I have to talk in front of the class. Can you help?
• Is it wrong to masturbate twice in a week?
• I masturbate using a towel. Should I use a tissue and lube?
• As a girl, am I allowed to masturbate? I find it nice.
• Can we masturbate together as friends?
• I love hugging my friends. Am I being a lesbian?
• I hate jewelry. Am I a boy?
• I have not yet developed breasts. Boys laugh and tease me. What to do?
• I hardly have facial hair!! I am a boy though rite?
• My father still beats me. Can I report him? He beats my mother also, so I am guessing she will support me.
• I don’t want to study. I want to cook. I am a boy. My mother thinks I will become gay.
• My friends call my gay or girly, because I like pink. I am a boy. What should I do?
• Is it ok to chat with strangers on face-book?
• I cannot study at night, and I feel guilty that I am not studying enough. Help me please!
• I want to grow taller. What to do for that?
Please Note : Teenagers at this stage have many questions, that are very personal and private in nature. They find themselves to be in sensitive phase of life, where they are in full focus, in an academic sort of the way and are also handling many other issues relating to their friends and other interpersonal relationships.
Social media standing begins to gain more prominences and there are also many comparisons drawn based on socio-economic status. They are curious and want to imitate their parents and other adults around them. However, they feel confused about how to go about it or if it is right to do so. Most of their information and validation comes from mass media and social media. Hence creates discrepancy between what they actually feel and what they feel they should be feeling.
11th and 12th Std (16-17years) – I and II PUC
Sessions Conducted : 4 (4 hours)
Session Duration : 1 hour per session
• Basic Hygiene
• Body rules
• Bodily and hormonal changes.
• PMS ing and other related behavior-feelings
• Societal gender roles – why?
• Balancing what one desires and what one is expected to do.
• What are feelings and emotions?
• Communication
• Peer relationships and how to balance them
• Addictions – how they happen and what to do?
• Love and relationships
• What to expect from the opposite sex?
• Self-Respect and Self-Concept
• Self-Defense
• Goal-setting and life planning
• How to transit through changes?
• Stress Relief Techniques
• What is responsibility?
• Value of things around me?
• Identifying Abuse
• Reporting
Methodology Used :
• Role -Plays
• Expressive Stories
• Interactive Discussions and Exploration
The young-adults here are invited to share and interact with the trainer. They are individuals with one leg in childhood and the other leg in adulthood. The rapid physiological and psychological changes compel them into possible impulsive behavior.
Awareness is mainly focused on interpersonal relationships and responsible reposes. They show the innocence and naivety of a child, along with the cultural maturity of an experienced adult their environment influences them a lot. They are taught to take in information through ethical and moral filters and act accordingly. At this stage they require effective mentoring rather than strict and strong instructions.
Program Format : Offline(groups)
For More Details or Clarifications , Please send a Detailed Email to : infodranisha@gmail.com
Book Your Session Here! or WhatsApp @ +91 96326 25046 or Email : infodranisha@gmail.com
Parenting Skills
For Parents with young kids aged (10 months- 16 yrs ) :
“The Children of today are the Responsible Adults of tomorrow’
Each child is unique in its emotional development and mind-set, parents will be able to identify and cater to specifics. Major concerns regarding styles of discipline, learning styles will be covered.
This workshop will be in the form of an interactive seminar and discussion. Various case-study examples will be quoted and through activities information will be shared. This will help empower parents and nurturers to think-act-function sensibly and practically.
All questions and interactions will be strictly kept confidential.
Each session will be tailor-made and customized as per the needs of the relevant group, as per the age of the child.
Not more that 40 participants will be allowed to participate in each session.
Program Format : Offline(groups), Online (121 and groups)
For More Details or Clarifications , Please send a Detailed Email to : infodranisha@gmail.com
Book Your Session Here! or WhatsApp @ +91 96326 25046 or Email : infodranisha@gmail.com
Nurturing workshops
A student spends most his/er Life-Influencing hours in the halls of education, and as faculty we
play a big role in shaping their lives ahead…. Let us be the best we can. To help mold our students into the best of themselves.
Each of these programs are best run as a 1 full day program (1.5hrs/ session – 4 sessions) for best and most effective results.
This program is designed to sensitize and coach the teaching faculty of educational institutions regarding handling student issues and crisis situations regarding the same.
The following programs have been designed based on field research and empirical data thus collected. It is constructed in the backdrop of ‘Developmental Mile-stones of Human Development’ and ‘ Psychological Evidence’.
It is divided into 4 parts, relating to dealing with the four broad classifications of, The Educational System.
Primary Schooling (1st – 4th Std) : Here the faculty will be trained to deal with the following issues:
*Home-sickness : handling tantrums and reasoning with the child.
*Identification of potential family issues and notifying.
*Dealing with classroom bullying and abusive behavior.
*Dealing with foul language and possible obscenity
*Identifying, helping and reporting any form of abuse the child may have/ may be going through.
Middle Schooling (5th – 7th Std): Here the faculty will be trained to deal with the following issues:
*Dealing with hyperactivity and slow-learners
*Peer-pressure and groupism among students
*Helping the students design and cope with increasing academic pressure
*Exam seriousness and sensitivity
*Instilling a sense of good self esteem
*Balancing and maintaining a good classroom ambience
High Schooling (8th -10th Std): Here the faculty will be trained to deal with the following issues:
*Identification and support of student assets.
*Peer-pressure
*Handling adolescent behavior and complaints such as, gender sensitivity and emotional issues regarding the opposite sex.
*Handling and help shape sense of self-concept and self-respect in students
*Dealing with stress
*Balancing priorities
Pre-University (11th & 12th / 1st &2nd PUC):Here the faculty will be trained to deal with the following issues:
*Handling and first line of talk/counselling regarding adolescent and related issues
*Identification and handling of potential family issues
*Peer-Pressure
*Possibility of habit formation
*Bullying and personality issues
Program Format : Offline(groups), Online (groups)
For More Details or Clarifications , Please send a Detailed Email to : infodranisha@gmail.com
Book Your Session Here! or WhatsApp @ +91 96326 25046 or Email : infodranisha@gmail.com