Try This! Aims, Objectives and Outcomes

Overall Aim of ‘Try This!’ 
To provide a safe and supportive group and digital process to enable participants to explore their unique experience of emotions, understand the physiology of strong emotion and recognise the somatic sensation of regulation.
 
Objectives:

1. Support participants to explore their personal experience of strong emotions
2. Enable young people to examine the benefits and consequences of emotional regulation
3. Provide an experience of a range of regulation techniques
4. Provide knowledge of how brain and body work under stress
5. Build confidence in the ability to manage strong emotions for participants and so reduce fear
6. Encourage participants to take responsibility for the control of their own emotional regulation 
7. Empower participants to choose and use the right regulation technique for them
8. Promote safety planning and use of preventative strategies to manage emotional overwhelm

 
Anticipated outcomes for young people

1. Increased confidence and self esteem
2. Establishment of peer support
3. Reduction in feelings of helplessness and overwhelm when faced with adversity and stress
4. Improved relationships
5. Reduction in unhealthy coping strategies such as self harm, aggression, panic attacks
6. Reduction in feelings of isolation, guilt and shame
7. Improved academic performance
8. Increase in skills and abilities to manage emotions
9. Increased ability to process thoughts and understand responses
10.  Development of a more positive outlook and resilience
11.  Improved access to sources of information, advice and emotional support
12. Improved sleep pattern and ability to sleep quickly and easily
13. Improved behaviour and attention/ focus in school

 
Anticipated outcomes for families

1. Reduction in aggressive behaviours and isolation
2. Improvement in communication 
3. Clearer understanding of the need for regulation before behaviour management 
4. A safer home environment
5. Improved attachment in parent child, extended family and sibling relationships

 
Anticipated outcomes in the longer term

1. Reduction in referral to mental health services
2. Improved immune system and physical health
3. Reduction in offending and antisocial behaviours
4. Reduction in medication and drug/ alcohol use
5. Improved school attendance
6. Better employment and further education prospects 
7. Improved retention of education placement and / or employment

 
Potential negative impacts

1. Exposure of personal information in group, leading to feelings of shame and vulnerability
2. Bullying or targeting of participants due to disclosures made in group
3. Emotional responses in group leading to feelings of shame and vulnerability
4. Sense of shame/ inadequacy due to inferior technology and/ or devices

 
‘Try This!’ Measured Outcomes
1. Improved Social and Emotional Health via Self-Regulation
2. Improved Cognitive and Academic Performance
3. Improved Relationships 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Try This!

We encourage teens to dream big, aim high and just try!
Teens light up when they have...

Stillness and inner calm.
Hope that they can create the changes they need to thrive and succeed.
Ideas and techniques to try.
Neuroscience to understand how minds and bodies work together.
Express their emotions - by writing, speaking or through Art, Drama or Music. ​

Testimonials

"This is a brilliant workshop, I really hope you get funding to continue this great work, I love your passion"     
​- S. Rankin

"Excellent - this has the potential to change lives" ​​