Transform Your Life with EQ Maine

Focus: Recognizing personal transformation and growth as a result of facing challenges.

1. CBT Focus: Reflecting on how challenges have reshaped thought patterns and behaviors. Emphasizing cognitive restructuring (changing negative thought patterns into positive ones).
2. Assessment Tool: Resilience Scale – measuring how much resilience has grown over time through overcoming challenges.
3. Expressive Arts Activity:
   
   • Children: Create a “Before and After” drawing or collage, depicting how they were before facing a challenge and how they’ve transformed after facing it.
   • Adults: Create a visual timeline or journal entry reflecting on a personal transformation and the steps taken to achieve growth.

1. Experiential Family Therapy Activity: Families discuss a challenge they've faced together and reflect on how the family has grown as a unit. Each family member shares what they've learned and how they've changed.
2. Executive Functioning Homework Assignment:
   
   • Children: Work with their parent to identify one new skill they have developed and practice using that skill throughout the week (e.g., emotional regulation, patience, problem-solving).
   • Adults: Reflect on the skills they've developed through recent challenges and identify how these new strengths can be applied to current or future challenges.

• Parent-Child Attachment Activity: Create a "Transformation Story" together. Each person reflects on how they’ve changed over the past few months and how they see themselves growing in the future. Share these stories as a family.
• Executive Functioning Activity:
  • Children: Identify one key skill or strength they developed through a challenge (e.g., staying calm under pressure, asking for help). Focus on practicing that skill during the week and reflecting on how they use it.
  • Adults: Reflect on the personal growth they’ve experienced and apply their new skills to a current task or challenge. Write about how they can continue growing in this area.