Supporting Young People

Being a young person can be overwhelming in our modern world, we can support you in reaching your goals.

Case Management

Case Management

Educational success via a range of alternative supports, or within the mainstream school environment.

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Aboriginal Basketball Academy

Innovative Community Participation

Connected Self’s Innovative Community Participation Program is designed to support NDIS participants to build skills to actively participate in their community.

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness

Mindfulness programs that support adults and young people to feel happier, calmer, more fulfilled and focused.

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Rock and Water Program

Rock & Water Program

Providing young people and adults a pathway to self-awareness, increased self-confidence and social functioning.

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Rock and Water Wellbeing Approach

Rock & Water Wellbeing Approach

An innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to delivering a Rock & Water wellbeing program to your school community.

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Therapeutic Mentoring

Therapeutic Mentoring

A tailored approach where skilled Youth Practitioners spend time with young people to help them achieve their goals.

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Polyvagal Practices

Polyvagal practices aim to enhance physiological regulation, restore a sense of safety, and promote engagement through autonomic nervous system regulation.

This enhances social and emotional learning, including recognising and regulating emotions (from a physiological lens) and developing empathy for others.

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PACE

Developed as part of attachment-focused family therapy, PACE is a trauma-informed approach aiming to create safe, trusting, emotionally connected relationships with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma or attachment difficulties. PACE stands for:

Playfulness

  • Approaching with an open, ready, calm, relaxed and engaged attitude.
  • Not taking yourself/situations too seriously.
  • Diffusing difficult/tense situations.

Acceptance

  • Unconditionally accepting the current state/mood/behaviour.
  • Accepting that there are things unseen that lie below behaviour.
  • Acceptance supports feeling secure, safe and loved

Curiosity

  • Understanding the child gently and without judgement.
  • Supporting child to bring awareness to their inner life.
  • Wondering statements.

Empathy

  • A sense of compassion and understanding for young person’s feelings and thoughts.

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Expression of experience when words are not enough

Art Therapy does not rely on verbal language. It is a therapeutic approach that provides many different mediums for communication. It is a useful mechanism when clients may not yet have the language to express their experiences.

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Contain difficult feelings and build tolerance

Art making holds or contains the difficult feelings allowing them to be felt and experienced gradually – building tolerance to discomfort.

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