February Featured Coach
💜 Congratulations Jenny Mason 💜
Jenny Mason loved her role as a primary teacher but after 20 years, began to feel disheartened by the growing pressures of targets and the rising number of children struggling emotionally in the classroom.
In 2020, Relax Kids kept appearing in her life and she knew it was a sign to follow a new path and she hasn’t looked back since.
Jenny now runs weekly wellbeing sessions and after-school clubs in schools, as well as 1:1 work and group sessions for wellbeing days and weeks, Beaver groups to classroom sessions and 121 home visits.
The impact she’s seen has been powerful. One child she supported was struggling to enter school. “One boy I worked 1:1 with, had really been struggling to go into school and, after working on confidence and regulation techniques, got a certificate for coming into school so positively. Another child was frightened to be in crowds after a scary experience at a football match and after working on how he could feel safe, was able to attend a match again.”
Jenny loves seeing the children’s faces light up when they know a Relax Kids session is coming. Many share how they’ve used the tools with their families at home. “There aren’t enough stars to colour in!” one child told her after being asked to rate the session.
And perhaps the most touching feedback of all?
When Jenny asked a child how Relax Kids made them feel, they simply replied:
“Better than before.”
The Headteacher at a school she provides regular sessions in recently said “Relax Kids is such an important part of our offering for our children who need social snd emotional support and it has had such an impact on our pupils and families.”
Follow Jenny’s Journey here: