Imagine your child working with other children or teens to build amazing things while having to negotiate, listen, and work with others.
Minecraft is the ultimate tool for helping children learn to express themselves, to communicate well with others and to develop their teamwork skills.
Community Team Motto: “It is more important to be a good team-member than to build good things.”
Express your opinions.
Listen to others’ ideas.
Take others' feedback on board.
Politely say 'no' to others' suggestions.
Give and receive compliments.
Learn to build rapport and make connections.
Learn self-esteem and self-talk strategies.
Plan together.
Build together.
Be a great team-player.
"Oh My Goodness! Blake absolutely loved last night. Thank you so much !!!!
It made him feel very special and comfortable"
- 10 y.o. Blake's Mum, Vic
We have different goals for each child and team. 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.
At each time slot, we will have about 5-6 students working together, with our leaders helping and guiding team-work negotiations.
Each week we have a different project that we work on together as a team (e.g. create a beach scene or a playground or a factory etc).
This is an online community for any child who is looking to build their social skills and teamwork skills.
We have different session times, depending on your child's age group and Minecraft ability. We've deliberately designed these sessions so that your child can be part of a team, regardless of their age or ability. Really, Minecraft is a lot like Lego and often our older students help our younger ones. It is part of the teamwork mind-set.
This is safer than almost anywhere else your child could play Minecraft. That's because your child will work with two of our staff members who will make sure that everyone is using friendly voices and doing friendly things. Only children who we have let into the game can come and play in the team building area, so your child is safe from outsiders. Also we have clear guidelines and rules for our kids about how we speak to others, treat each other's work and protect what each other have built.
NDIS funding is generally available for self-managed and plan-managed NDIS plans
Chat with your plan manager for what is relevant to your situation.
It is helpful to know that other families have told us they usually use these categories (or similar):
a) Increased Social & Community Participation
b) Improved Daily Living
For plan-managed participants, your plan manager will be able to tell you whether your plan will cover this, as some plan-managed participants may have some out-of-pocket expenses. Most families are able to cover this without out-of-pockets.
SATURDAY Start times
NSW/VIC/QLD/TAS times: 8am/9am/10am/11am/12pm
SA/NT times: 7.30am/8.30/9.30/10.30/11.30am
WA times 6am/7am/8am/9am/10am
WEDNESDAYS Start times
NSW/VIC/QLD/TAS times: 3:30pm/4.30pm/5.30pm
SA/NT time: 3:00pm/4.00pm/5.00pm
WA times: 1.30pm/2.30pm/3.30pm
"Thankyou. He had a great time and talked about it all day long."
- Janelle, Mum of 9 y.o.
“He really seems to enjoy the sessions - obviously Minecraft is one of his 'things'.
I really appreciate you spending the extra time to meet the goals of the session.”
- Fiona, Mum of 8 y.o.
“He didn't stop talking about it.
It gives him something to look forward to on the weekends.
I really think this will be amazing for him.”
- Jan, Parenting her 12 y.o.
Our Tech Support People(Patrick & Lani) will help you get set up when you arrive:
Our Tech Support People (Patrick & Lani) can happily show families how to get their child set up. We help children set up their own Minecraft account (if they don't already have one)
If you have any trouble getting set up, our friendly Tech Support People and will even set you up. Easy!
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.
Keep doing sessions as long as you like. š
This is not a set-weeks-time course. We take public holidays off but most of our kids will stay with us for a long, long time.
Thinking it's time to help your child learn new social skills? We are here to help. :)
Social skills can be learned.
We love helping your family thrive.
Supported by the team at Athletic Koala.
Also working alongside Pathway Partnerships.
We are AUSTRALIA-WIDE and even WORLD-WIDE on Zoom.
Office: 18 Wakool Circuit, Kaleen, 2617
hello@amazingskills.com.au
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