Seasons For Growth

About Seasons For Growth

Seasons for Growth is an evidence-based group education program that helps children and young people manage grief, loss and change.

Delivered in small groups, it focuses on building resilience, coping skills, and social-emotional support. It can help young people who have experienced events such as family separation; loss or death of a loved one; relocation and forced migration; living away from family; loss of a pet or impacts of terrorism, war or
pandemics.

Seasons for Growth was launched in 1996 by Professor Anne Graham with the support of the Sisters of St Joseph in Australia. The program has reached over
200,000 children, young people and adults. The program is not only being run in New Zealand and Australia but also in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.

Program Learning Outcomes

The Seasons For Growth Program helps young people to:

 

  • Develop skills for coping, making positive choices, goal–setting, and decision-making
  • Understand that their feelings and other behavioural reactions are normal
  • Acknowledge their feelings and recognise that they are ‘not the only one’
  • Build a peer support network and feel a sense of belonging and connection
  • Restore self-confidence, self-respect, resilience and emotional competence