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Anxiety Coach Parent Education Course

Help to reduce anxiety and build resilience in children aged 4-12.

Parents will learn: By having a greater understanding of the problem of increasing levels of anxiety in children parents will identify anxiety and counter it’s progress.

• An overview of how a well-honed theory of parenting (what you need to repeatedly do) can assist parents to manage children’s worries.
• Coverage of how some misguided policies are making parents and children more anxious.
• The brain, including how the prefrontal middle cortex and the amygdala operate, and where fear and anxiety originates.
• Commonly misused phrases and cognitive distortions used by children and their peers.
• A helicopter view of what risks we can allow and which require us to keep children safe.
• ‘Traps and trip wires’: what to do when a child’s amygdala starts to play-up.
• Memorable strengthening sayings, questioning strategies and mindfulness exercises.

The course facilitator is Jenny Spring.

The course will take place at Hilltops Community Hub between 10am and 12.30pm on Tuesday the 5th, 12th and 19th of August. To register, call or email Jenny on 0429 886 697 or at jenny.s@youngnc.org.au or the Hilltops Hub on 6382 6328.

Hilltops Youth Action Group Free Movie Night at Harden Library

Free youth event showing The Goonies at Harden Library. 5.30pm start on July 17. Free snack bag for youth (limited numbers). Bring a pillow or something comfy to sit on and invite your friends.

Proudly sponsored by HRDC and proudly hosted by HYAG and Harden Library.

Young Garden Club July Bunnings Workshop

This month’s workshop will be about pruning roses and fruit trees before the new growth comes. Also preparing soil, planting vegie seeds in egg cartons to take home and worm farming in a tub.

Saturday July 26th in Aisle 15 at 10am.

For more information contact 0474 185 093. All welcome.

Harden Hospital Auxiliary Monthly Morning Tea

Guest speaker Liz Sherborne from Harden Physiotherapy and hydrotherapy pool. $10 per person, 10.30am on August 7 at 98 Albury Street. All welcome.

Following morning tea, members will stay on for the monthly meeting.

Young PCYC Term 3 Beginner Gymnastics Free Trial

Free trial for beginners gymnastics!If your child is thinking about gymnastics in term 3, there are free trials on Monday the 21st and Wednesday the 23rd of July at 3:45pm. All skill levels welcome! Limited spaces available. Enrol today! Email young@pcycnsw.org.au or phone 6382 5392.

Community Morning Tea at Hilltops Community Hub

Tuesday the 29th of July at the Hub.

Monthly Hub morning tea. This event is free and open to all of the community.

Meet others, get social and enjoy some nibbles between 10am – 11.30am. All welcome, drop in or stay the whole time, no bookings necessary. Lucky door prize!

Hilltops Youth Action Group Youth Passport Program Nutrition Workshop with Live Better

A fun and informative Nutrition Workshop where you’ll learn all about eating healthy and feeling great! Are you aged 12–24 and interested in eating better, feeling better, and having fun while doing it? Come along to the free Youth Nutrition Workshop, a hands-on, interactive session focused on smart snacking, healthy habits, and making the right food choices when hunger strikes. You’ll learn how to prepare tasty, balanced meals on a budget, explore the powerful link between what you eat and how you feel (mentally and physically), and get creative making your own colourful, nutritious snacks and smoothies. Whether you’re new to healthy eating or just want some fresh ideas, this is your chance to build skills, confidence, and tasty new habits — all in a fun, relaxed environment with other young people! 11.30am - 2.30pm at the Young Town Hall - LEOC Room on Friday the 18th of July. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nutrition-workshop-with-livebetter-tickets-1296406178779

Boorowa Run Club Mum’s and Bubs Run/Walk

Wednesdays at 10am. Meet at the playground carpark. Bring your prams, scooters, bikes or carriers. Walk or run around the 3km or 5km loop or turn around wherever suits you. Plenty of seats along the way to stop for a feed.

Coffee afterwards at Hollys at 11am with the CWA Mother’s Group.

Harden Murrumburrah Men’s Shed Presentation

The Harden Murrumburrah Men’s Shed is hosting a presentation on prostate cancer. Local man Jim Ryan will give a presentation titled ‘My treatment regime for prostate cancer’. Local men are encouraged to attend and ‘learn from someone who’s been there’. The presentation will take place on Saturday the 26th of July at 12.30pm at the Men’s Shed in East Street, Harden at the old railway building. Check out what the Men’s Shed is all about while you are there.

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