As the foundation of all social emotional skills, helping children build strong relationships with the adults and peers around them is critical to their development. In this workshop we identify a wide range of tools that can assist children and adults in establishing and strengthen these relationships. 

This workshop covers the following topics:

  • Entering Play
  • Feeling Excluded
  • Visual Supports – CSEFEL - Solution Kit, Steps for Conflict Resolution, Super Friend
  • Problem Solving When Conflict Occurs
  • Sharing/Turn taking
  • Creating an environment that supports building relationships
  • Empathy
  • RDI - Social Referencing
  • RDI - Experience/Emotion Sharing
  • RDI - Declarative/Imperative language
  • RDI – Coordinating Actions
  • Joining a group
  • Theory of Mind