Savoir Faire
A virtual primer for getting on in life, our savoir-faire workshop for teens gives them a few tricks up their sleeve for when they find themselves in challenging situations.
Whether that’s an awkward interview or dealing with difficult bosses, this workshop basically gives them the inside track, covering everything from etiquette to conversation starters when your back is against the wall.
Life Skills
This is exactly the kind of lesson that every adult wishes they could have followed! Thanks to the extensive business background of Brightstarz founder Yvonne, this thrilling life skills workshop for teens offers useful insights on the world of work, managing money, and fitting into organisations, whether that’s university or professional environments.
We also cover personal resilience, learning to be adaptable, interview skills, financial awareness, 'street smarts', and other essential topics.
Nutrition
What you put in is what you get out: no wonder nutrition plays such a huge part in our energy levels, how we feel, and how we look.
This nutrition workshop for teens helps them understand the importance of good sustenance and teaches them how to develop healthy dietary habits with long-lasting benefits.
Mastering Mindfulness
Definitely not just for adults, mindfulness is a proven way for teens to stay grounded in times of mental turmoil. Starting is often the most difficult part, especially when written descriptions seem so baffling.
That’s why our mindfulness workshop for teens explains exactly what it means, how it can help them manage high-stress situations (like their dreaded exams), and how to actionably make it a part of their everyday life.
Creating Your Personal Brand
The choices that teens make today can influence how people think of them, not just tomorrow but for years to come.
This teen workshop is a must for anyone who could do with a helping hand when it comes to understanding how the world sees them and how they want to be perceived. The ultimate goal? Allowing them to become the best version of themselves.
Boost Your Confidence
Peer pressure, sexuality, illegal substances, self-harm: these years can be the most challenging of their entire life. As if that weren’t bad enough, a breakdown in communications with parents often causes endless confusion and confidence crises.
Our confidence workshops for teens help them boost their self-esteem, develop a growth mindset, and make a good first impression while also offering much-needed tips for conversation starters in awkward situations.
Understanding Social Media
Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok: social media is everywhere in a young person's life, but it can sometimes lead to mistakes and dangerous situations.
Our social media workshop for pre-teens gets them off on the right foot by educating them on these platforms. That way, they’ll be able to make healthy and safe choices.
Life skills and Cultural Awareness
As they transition from children to adolescents, their life becomes full of new rules and possibilities, and this can feel both exciting and overwhelming.
Our life skills and cultural awareness workshops for pre-teens help them prepare themselves for a world that seems rife with difficult choices. It especially covers resilience, learning to be adaptable to 'street smarts', the 4 C’s, and budgeting.
Our life skills and cultural awareness workshop for children delves into some of the many ways that pre-teens can prepare themselves for a world that can seem rife with difficult choices, and covers everything from resilience and learning to be adaptable to 'street smarts', the 4 C’s and budgeting.
Mastering Mindfulness and Building Resilience
Mindfulness can actively help children with everything from schoolwork to general happiness and high-stress situations like exams.
Our mindfulness workshop for pre-teens explains exactly how this technique works, providing participants with practical ways to be 'in the moment' and more engaged. This will also allow them to build resilience in a fast-paced and challenging world.
Mindfulness can help children with everything from schoolwork to general happiness, and even helps with managing high stress situations like exams. Our mindfulness workshop for children explains exactly how mindfulness works and provides participants with practical ways to be 'in the moment' and more engaged so that they can feel more resilient in this fast-paced, often difficult world.
Changing Bodies
There’s no way around it: puberty is a challenging time. This girls-only session will help demystify everything that’s already on their mind—from periods to changing body shapes—in a safe environment.
This puberty workshop promotes body confidence and helps deal with mood swings, two burning subjects that girls often find embarrassing to discuss with parents and even more so at school.
Tackling Anxiety
With almost one in five children struggling with some form of anxiety disorder, this pre-teen workshop equips them with the right tools to face challenges including exam pressure.
They’ll learn to understand, identify, and tackle both anxiety and panic attacks—and, most importantly, know that they’re not alone.
Friendships and Bullying
Bullying at school can leave lasting mental scars and should never be ignored. This pre-teen workshop is aimed at easing the burden of young people dealing with unpredictable friends and overbearing classmates, as well as trying to understand how they fit into the world.
The core themes are how to identify a bully—and how to deal with them—and toxic friendships—and how to move away from them.
Make-up and Skincare
This girls-only workshop for pre-teens introduces them to the colourful world of makeup.
It covers the social pressures of wearing it (and how to resist them if needed), what kind of makeup is appropriate for different circumstances, and the importance of skincare at a time when acne can be a worrying issue.
Teen Make-up and Skincare
Our makeup and skincare workshop for teens teaches girls all about skincare rituals, makeup brands, and natural options.
As well as secret tricks on using toners, cleansers, and mascaras, we’ll also share helpful ways to make them look their best.
Boost Your Confidence
A fun and uplifting session aimed at equipping them with the confidence they need to feel safe and happy at school and among friends.
This workshop for pre-teens delves into what confidence really means whilst promoting a growth mindset and can-do attitude. We also cover how to make a good first impression, as we both know it matters!