Watch YA Language Shift YA Self Talk Workshops & Talks

The Watch YA Language Signature School Program is built from the heart up. Helping kids and adults learn how to regulate their nervous systems through movement, neuroception, and making better choices.

A burning desire to change the world starting with one individual at a time.

Kindness is key. It’s a simple word but a huge choice on the thoughts we think and the words we speak. It starts when we are young…when someone says something to us that we then believe to be true. It’s from that moment that we start to create a story around a belief…A belief that we are not good enough to get on the team, or not pretty enough to be in the cool group. Or we compare our bodies to that of someone on social media or on TV. It starts really young these days…and my dream is to help change it and give these kids the awareness to catch their language and thoughts before it becomes a story like mine did for over 28 years.

How does it all work?

Over the school term, I share the BE HERE Method from my book, Watch YA Language, alongside the principals of the Poly Vagal Theory. Helping students identify what it looks, feels and sounds like when we get bumped from safety in our bodies. This is a practical, simple and fun experience for both the kids and teachers to invest in and put to practice the weekly steps at home, school, and with their mates.

This method helped me shift nearly 30 years of practised behaviours, actions, and habits to release the old story of not feeling enough and unworthiness, to a belief that I was deserving of feeling gratitude and appreciation for the body I was in, without the need for more. The Poly vagal theory is a scientific blueprint for returning ourselves as quickly as possible, back to our home, the body.

The BE HERE method is outlined below...

“Meg recently visited Black Hill and delivered an engaging and meaningful 90-minute presentation to our entire school, from Kindergarten through to Year 6. Our children loved practising the relaxation techniques that Meg taught and were enthusiastic about joining in and sharing their thoughts.

Meg was also keen to relate her workshop to our current school wellbeing programs. During the workshop, she connected her focus concepts and stories to our school PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning) expectations, further strengthening students’ understanding.

Feedback from our teachers indicated they also found the workshop valuable and insightful, with most now using Meg’s techniques and language in their own classrooms.

Meg’s message was simple, yet powerful, and so important for our children – to choose kindness, kindness to yourself and kindness to others.

A highly valuable and highly recommended presentation. Thank you, Meg!

Kylie South Principal

Black Hill Public School”