Friendship & Relationship Development
10 Truths and Tips for Making & Keeping Friends
Help guide social learners in some of the most significant learning of their lives
Friendship seems so easy and natural to those who make friends easily—but to those who find it challenging, it’s neither simple, logical, or predictable! All functional relationships—including friendship—require a range of social competencies, such as executive functioning & organizational skills, perspective taking, flexible thinking, understanding feelings & emotions, and many more.
How do we crack open this treasure chest to make the most coveted, yet complex facet of relationship development explicit and accessible to our children, students, and clients who struggle to form gratifying emotional relationships with their peers, colleagues, and others they simply share space with?
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Combating Loneliness and Misbehavior
Download this free visual with practical ideas for initiating social conversations, which Michelle Garcia Winner presents in this course.
Loneliness is a dangerous national epidemic that has been growing in depth and complexity for many years. Loneliness not only endangers our mental and physical health, but it also can make us less kind and caring toward others, resulting at times in misbehavior at schools and within our communities. We’ll explore a range of research-informed ways we can cultivate meaningful relationships with others to foster our well-being, as well as kindness, empathy, and generosity of spirit toward others. Now more than ever, building social awareness, managing anxiety, and developing social communication strategies to combat this growing crisis of loneliness is critical for school-age children, tweens and teens, and all the way through the adult years. The 90-day Recorded Replay Access begins at the time of Registration.
1.5 hours of CE credit available for select professionals.
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Free Video Lesson
Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP
Watch this short video mini-lesson in which Michelle Garcia Winner demonstrates how she uses magnets with her clients to help explain friendships and relationships. You can use this exercise with pre-teen, teenagers, young adults, or even adults.
Free Webinar
Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP
It’s human nature to want to help others, but it’s often difficult for people to ask for help, especially those with social learning differences. In this webinar, we’ll discuss why children, students, and adults may resist help or refuse to ask for it and we’ll deconstruct the multi-step process through which we ask for help. We’ll also explore the social emotional benefits for all participating in this unique and rewarding relationship.
What You Remember About Others
What is Social Thinking?
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Develop Social Competencies
The Social Thinking Methodology provides evidence-based strategies to help people ages four throughout adulthood develop their social competencies, flexible thinking, and social problem solving to meet their own social goals and improve:
