"Adventure Team (Mini-course)
Teamwork Skills - Conversation Skills - Friendship Skills - Emotional Regulation - Conflict Resolution Skills
Role-Playing Adventure Course
On zoom - from your home
This is a fun role-playing team adventure course for your child, where we tackle a new social skill on each week’s quest.
Your child becomes a character in a great big teamwork game, and will work together with others to complete quests.
Social Skills + Team Adventure = Wow!
It’s sort of like the “Choose-Your-Own-Adventure” books you read as a child, but waaayyyyy more fun.
It is a bit like a super-happy version of “Dungeons & Dragons”, except with no killing, no nasty stuff, and no dark themes.
Together we will solve puzzles, beat challenges and work together as a team.
For Young Adventurers Who Will Also Do:
- Evidence-Based 'Secret Agent Society' or
- Evidence-Based 'Peers For Teens/Young Adults'
This course builds on the skills that your young person will develop or has developed in our other courses.
Sessions
Student sessions
9 Sessions
90 minutes of fun sessions for your young person
Parent Sessions
2 Sessions
2-hours of supportive training for parents
Next Start dates
8 weekly sessions - multiple options for days/times - always after school
August Mini-Groups
Animal Rescue Team
Starting Mon (7th), Tue (8th), Wednes (9th), or Thur (10th) August onwards
Limited spots - Some spots left.
October Mini-Groups
Pirates & Ocean Explorers
Starting Mon (23th), Tue (24th), Wednes (25th), or Thur (26th) October onwards
January (2024) Mini-Groups
Starting 16-25 January onwards
Febuary Mini-Groups
Animal Rescue Team
Starting Mon (19th), Tue (20th), Wednes (21th), or Thur (22th) February onwards
Social Skills – Learned through a Role-Playing Game (on Zoom)
In Each 90-minute Session:
- LEARNING: Your child learns in the training lab - new skills tailored to that day’s upcoming adventure.
- PRACTICE: Go on today’s team adventure/quest and look for ways to use our new skills.
- REAL LIFE: We plan ways to use today’s new skills in real-life in the following week.
Social Skills, Emotional Regulation & Teamwork Skills
(On Zoom - From the comfort of home)
We'll learn 9 Essential Social Skills:
Teamwork Skills
Conversation Skills
Negotiation Skills
Emotional Regulation Strategies
Social & Friendship Skills For Interacting with Groups/Teams
Close Friends - How I relate to my closest friends:
Navigating challenges in friendship
Bullyproof Skills
Social & Personal Resilience
Social Curriculum
Session 1: Teamwork Skills
- Ways to contribute to my team’s goals
- Taking turns & letting others shine at times
- Being okay when other team members have different ideas/goals
- When to assert myself vs when to let others have their way
Session 2: Conversation Skills
- I can start conversations and keep conversations rolling.
- I can listen to others so they feel cared for.
- I talk with others about topics of shared interests (topics we both want to talk about, not just my favourite topic).
Session 3: Negotiation Skills
- Explaining my perspective and highlighting the benefits to others
- How to create new options that meet others’ needs and my own
- Active listening skills - Finding the good parts in other people’s suggestions
- Deciding when to insist on having my way vs accepting others’ ideas
Session 4: Emotional Regulation Strategies
- Strategies for being calm and brave in new situations
- Scale of 1-10: How strongly am I feeling happiness, anger or anxiety
- De-escalating: Ways of hitting the emotional “Pause Button” when feeling overwhelmed
- How to reach out for help feeling stuck, annoyed, anxious etc.
Session 5: Social & Friendship Skills For Interacting with Groups/Teams
- I know what actions and words I can use to make and keep friends
- Realistic expectations of our friends
- People range from acquaintances, to people I know, to people I play with , to friends, and best friends
- I take opportunities to help and I’ve got something to offer
Session 6: Close Friends - How I relate to my closest friends
- What healthy friendships look like
- Dropping my mask in close friendships
- My friends can play with other people sometimes.
- I am not a perfect friend, and others won’t be either, and that’s okay.
Session 7: Navigating challenges in friendship
- Recognising bullying/unhealthy friendships vs normal ups & downs
- Strategies for handling conflict
- Friendships have ups and downs & friendships can bounce back
- Who helps me when my friendships are tricky
Session 8: Bullyproof Skills
- Strategies for dealing with teasing or bullying.
- Recognising the difference between people joking and people being mean.
- I have fun things I can do on my own if I want.
- Ways to stay socially and personally safe online
Session 9: Social & Personal Resilience
- I can bounce back from rejection, tough days, and moments when I feel ‘stuck’.
- I know who I can get help from when friendships aren’t working.
- I have strategies for handling disappointments and social issues.
- I choose optimism and a growth mindset
Upcoming Themes for "Adventure Team"
ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM - August 7/8/9/10 onwards
(Weekly - 9 sessions, after school times)
Your child becomes part of the world’s most daring, talented animal-rescue team. Together, we raise and protect endangered animals on our animal-rescue farm. We will overcome raging storms, devastating droughts, and overcome outrageous challenges to protect our animals. Can we work together to rescue the world’s rarest and weirdest creatures and find our missing team member, “Captain Amazing”?
PIRATES & OCEAN EXPLORERS - October 23/24/25/26 onwards
(Weekly - 9 sessions, after school times)
Your child becomes an elite ocean explorer, overcoming the challenges of the waves and the winds to sail the 7 seas. Only teamwork skills and courage can keep our boat safely overcoming every challenge on this daring adventure. Together, will we track down “The Ultimate Treasure” and find our missing friend, “Captain Brave”?
SPACESHIP CADETS - January 16-25 2023
(Daily - 9 sessions, "holiday intensive")
Your child joins an elite Space-Team to travel in a spaceship through the galaxy, daring to land on unfamiliar planets, search abandoned planets. We will work together to unlock the mystery of “Where in the galaxy is Captain Awesome?”
We Help Your Child Achieve Their Goals
We have different goals for each child. We set goals depending on your child's abilities, and for community members who are on NDIS, we set goals that match NDIS objectives and we match goals to your child's unique personality.
Your Child Participates On Zoom, From Home
At each time slot, we will have a mini-group of students working together, with our leaders helping and guiding team-work negotiations.
Each session we have a different topic that we work through together.
This is an online community for any child who is looking to build their social skills and social confidence.
For Young People Aged 11-25 (In mini-groups)
We have different session times, depending on your child's age group and interests.
We've deliberately designed these sessions so that your child can experience friendship, regardless of their age or ability.
Led By Experienced Autism Experts
That's because your child will work with two of our staff members who will make sure that everyone is using friendly voices and supporting each other.
NDIS-Compliant Pricing: $1680
Structured to be approved for NDIS self-managed or NDIS plan-managed families to make claiming NDIS easier.
(Families not on NDIS can also participate, funding themselves.)
NDIS Funding Categories
It is helpful to know that some other families have told us they usually use these categories (or similar):
a) Increased Social & Community Participation
b) Improved Daily Living
Chat with your plan manager for what is relevant to your situation.
For plan-managed participants, your plan manager will be able to tell you whether your plan will cover this.
Many families are able to cover this without any out-of-pockets.
Location: Your lounge room, using zoom - No need to travel
You don’t need to travel anywhere. It's easy to use Zoom from your lounge room.
Social skills can be learned.
We love helping your family thrive.
Supported by the team at Athletic Koala.
Also working alongside Pathway Partnerships.
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Office: 18 Wakool Circuit, Kaleen, 2617
hello@amazingskills.com.au