This is just soooo sweet!  We love hugging and we love juggling so this is right up our street - I should edit that for those with Autistic traits but I nearly replaced it with "just our cup of tea"!  For all you lovely Autists out there this is something that completely makes sense to us and suits our tastes?  Does that work?
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video below.
Lindzi

We welcomed 20 SuperKids (and Teens) through our doors for a 6 day mission to explore a different adventure every day:

    Day 1 - Magical Adventure
SuperKids arrived and were issued with their "passport to fun" and asked to declare any Super Powers they had brought on their journey.  The magic started with balancing peacock feathers, spinning plates and working the devil stick like a pro.

    Day 2 - Space Adventure
"Commencing countdown, engines on!" 
10 - Build your Rocket (Creativity)
  9 - Crater Game (Play)
  8 - Walking on the Moon (Dance warm-up)
  7 - Moonsand in your hands (Sensory experience)
  6 - Spaceman breathing - helmets on (Breathe)
  5 - Sun Salutation (Stretch)
  4 - Reach for the Star Cards (Positive affirmation)
  3 - Journey into Space (Meditation)
  2 - Come back down to Earth (Grounding)
  1 - Collect your souvenir (Gift/reminder)

    Day 3 - Sea Adventure
Imagine how many sea creatures we discovered with so many creative minds and how they felt as we did peer massage.
We found the:
    octopus tentacles
    lobster pinch
    star fish press
    crab crawl
    shimmery seaweed ..... and many more.
                
    Day 4 - Jungle Adventure
Not quite The Lion King at the Palace Theatre but along those lines - we made shakers and rain sticks and were painted like lions and performed the jungle story using an array of musical instruments.
              
    Day 5 - SuperKids Adventure
How brilliant would it feel to be able to fall and be caught, to get a hug when you ask and to fly like a
superhero. Our SuperKids know all about teamwork now as they helped each other build confidence and trust in "I Want to Fly".
    
    Day 6 - Celebration Day
Everyone joined in for a taste of each of the previous adventures.  So the parents joined their children in creative and fun activities. 

The intensive week with families (13th -18th August) was highly successful.  We worked with the children on one-to-one or two-to-one sessions involving creative activities throughout the week and ended the week with a celebration day where the whole family could take part in creative activities, taste some gluten-free and casein free baking or just chat and exchange experiences.  The families were great and really interacted with the activities as well as some taster treatments (counselling, massage, Reiki and EFT).
The children made puppets, used the puppets to make little films and made bracelets and keyrings.  The children also had the opportunity to join in with an interactive Relax-kids session.
The families each made a colourful pillow case for the child involved in the project to remember and celebrate the child's great qualities.

We're getting ready for our intensive week with the families that have signed up
for the Case Studies pilot project from 13 August to 18 August.  Over this week we will work 3 or 4 families affected by Autism.  These are families that are involved in our current Case Studies Pilot project.  The week wll culminate in the production of a person centred plan for the child or young person with Autism and a Fun Finale on Saturday 18th August where we will bring all the families together to take part in creative workshops including mask-making, circus skills, music, drama and dance.  The theme of all the workshops is "Celebrating Our Family".
The Case Studies Pilot is taking place so that we can gather evidence to show that our interventions work.  We intend to raise funding to enable more families to access our services for free!  If you think this might be for you, even if Autism is only suspected, not diagnosed yet we'd really like to hear from you.

enlightening@mail.com
07722 285367