From Doodling to Deep Learning: The Confident Learner Coaching Series

A 4-week group coaching program that helps children ages 9 to 12 strengthen attention, recall what they learn, manage impulses, and approach learning with greater confidence and enjoyment.

Week 1: Make it clear

Kids learn where and how to start so they can stay the course and finish proud using their doodles

Week 2: Make it wrong

Kids practicing embracing mistakes as important information for getting things right

Week 3: Make it shorter

Kids learn the keys to making information concise and organized

Week 4: Make it make sense

Kids begin to master concepts so they can teach others

This small group series includes four coaching sessions focused on one learning principle at a time. Each session (ranging from 60 to 75 minutes) gives children an opportunity to practice the principle, connect it to their own learning, and leave with a strategy they can use again (and again).

Over four weeks, children practice a repeatable way to approach learning: clarify the goal, use mistakes as information, reduce ideas to what matters most, and explain their understanding in their own words.

Children can use these four principles during homework, classroom lessons, projects, study time, and learning on the job. The goal is not to eliminate doodling or force a single way of learning, but to help each child use attention and visual thinking more intentionally. I'll show your kids how I use characters to help me remember more while learning. Drawing also helps me to relax while focusing.

Benefits for parents and caregivers and families

1. Child Emotional development through self-regulation

2. Executive functioning training for children

3. Increased abilities to manage stressors when trying new, challenging, or less preferred activities

4. Support for families through direct access to Ashley

Who is this group for

- Children ages 9 to 12 who like to draw while listening

- Children who like to learn but get overwhelmed

- Children with sensory processing sensitivities, attention deficit disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and information processing differences.

- Children who are respectful, motivated, self-starters, but get discouraged because of perfectionism

There are 10 spots for this series.

Parents and guardians are not required to attend with their child. They may sit next to their child or listen in from nearby. Children must be seated in their workspace with their camera on, ready to participate. Joining from the car is not advised.

What students need to participate:

- A notebook with notes from school they want to revise for better understanding

- One drawing utensil, a highlghter, a pencil, and a colored pen

- A positive attitude

Start Dates and Times:

Thursday November 5, 2026 from 6 PM to 7 PM

Thursday November 12, 2026 from 6 PM to 7 PM

Thursday November 19, 2026 from 6 PM to 7 PM

Thursday December 3, 2026 from 6 PM to 7 PM

Ashley will allow up to 15 minutes after the hour if students are highly engaged.

Students are encouraged to attend each session for maximum program benefit.

Please read before purchasing:

Disruptive, hateful, and disrespectful behaviors will not tolerated. Children will be warned twice before Ashley speaks with the parent of caregiver. If the behavior is not corrected, the child will be removed from the series. There will be no refunds for disruptive, hateful, or disrespectful behavior. There will also be no refunds for scheduling changes resulting in the child unable to attend the program.

If you want your child to participate, but you're not sure if Ashley is a fit for them, email Ashley at ashley@risewhereyouare.com to schedule a virtual call today.

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A recital of poetry at the Uplifting Families April Gathering.

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