Greenwood launches 2024-2025 Parent/Guardian Speaker Series

Greenwood is proud to announce a speaker series focused on Teens and Managing Anxiety, featuring expert Lynn Lyons. 

 

Lynn is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Concord, New Hampshire.  She has been in private practice for 35 years specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and children. You can read her full bio below.

She will guide conversations with our whole school community during the year, through two parent/guardian virtual sessions, three sessions with Greenwood staff, and sessions with students (in grade level groups). The sessions will discuss the most prevalent patterns that foster stress and anxiety, and the skill-based strategies that help tweens and teens develop emotional management.  

 

Thursday, October 24

7 - 8:30 p.m.

 

Current news about young people and mental health has created warranted concern, but the information can be overwhelming and hard to sort through. Parents need dependable strategies to help their children manage their anxiety, moods, and social pressures, including social media and screens. The ability to help guide our children requires, more than ever, an ability to recognize and address one’s own emotional management as we practice and model better skills to meet life’s challenges.

 

Based on current research and 35 years of clinical experience, Lynn Lyons will talk about the common traps adults fall into, the role of smartphones and social media, and the key adjustments needed to manage the current surge of anxiety and depression in our kids and ourselves. Includes preventative measures!  

 

Tuesday, October 29 

12:15-1 pm  

 

Join this online conversation for parents/guardians with members of the Well Being team at Greenwood). At this session, we will debrief about Lynn’s presentation and connect it to what steps Greenwood is taking to improve student well-being. Registration to come. Keep an eye on Week @ a Glance.

 

There will also be a Spring session with Lynn as well as a follow-up lunchtime conversation as well. Dates to be determined. Read Week @ a Glance or check the calendar on ON. 

 

Monday, October 28

Students will hear Lynn Lyons in grade-level groupings and have follow-up conversations with advisers.

 

A session with Lynn took place in our August Professional Development Week:

 

 

Worry and anxiety are normal and expected parts of learning and growing, but when ‘tweens and teens face challenges cognitively, socially or emotionally, anxiety can step in and take over. Anxiety can be overwhelming and rigid, but it’s also based on predictable patterns that can be shifted once we learn how it operates. Lynn offers concrete do’s and don’ts based on skill-building in the face of these predictable patterns. The goal? Normalize and equip families with the skills of emotional management, flexibility, and connection.  

 

Friday, October 11  

 

Expanding on concepts introduced in a Professional Development Week presentation, this session will delve into the most common mistakes made when addressing anxious student behaviours, and what to do instead.  

 

Greenwood staff will also be invited to one additional session in January. Date to be determined. 

 

 

Lynn Lyons is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Concord, New Hampshire.  She has been in private practice for 35 years specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and children. You can read her full bio below.

 

Lynn travels internationally as a speaker and trainer on the subject of anxiety, its role in families, and the need for a preventative approach at home and in schools. She is a sought after expert, appearing in the New York Times, Time, NPR, Psychology Today, Good Morning America, Today Show and other media outlets.  Lynn is a featured expert in the 2023 documentary Anxious Nation. 

 

With a special interest in breaking the generational cycle of worry in families, Lynn is the author/coauthor of several books and articles on anxiety, including Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children, and the companion book for kids, Playing with Anxiety: Casey’s Guide for Teens and Kids.  Her latest book for adults and teenagers, The Anxiety Audit was released October ’22.  

 

Lynn is the co-host of the popular podcast Flusterclux.