The Willow Project

⭐️ 🇺🇸The Willow Project Creative Arts Center AND The Willow Project Healing and Wholeness Center will be closed on Monday in observance of Labor Day ⭐️🇺🇸

❤️Powerful encouragement from Courage Counseling & Consulting LLC! We are so thankful to have Courage Counseling & Consulting LLC at The Willow Project!❤️

I talk to a lot of discouraged young people in my work. Many of them believe on some level that they are not enough or don't have what it takes. Our culture sends subtle messages to all of us that we have to be perfectly attractive, perfectly brilliant, perfectly skilled, or universally accepted by others in order to be worth anything. We all have felt the pressure of these messages and we all respond to the pressure in different ways. When 'perfect' is the goal, anxiety and discouragement are the logical outcomes. We will either 'hustle' to be as perfect as possible or we will feign helplessness/incompetence, refusing to change or grow.

As parents, family members, teachers, and "village member's" it is important that we combat the perfection mindset in the young people we care about. Instead, we want to help cultivate a growth mindset. A growth mindset does not expect perfection out of self or others and believes that abilities and knowledge can be developed through consistency, learning, and practice. It focuses on the process of growth rather than the outcome of perfection.

Growth mindsets are cultivated through encouragement from others, experiences of success as the result of dedication and practice, and a helpful perspective on failure. When a child fails or does not get something right, our response is of great importance. Responses that support the development of growth mindsets focus on the courage it takes to try something new, the great effort the child has put forth, and the hope of improvement through practice and learning.

"Everyone struggles with something new sometimes."

"You have worked really hard at this and you have really improved since the first time!"

"Wow! It takes a lot of guts to try something you know you can't get perfect!"

"Practice makes progress!"

Take courage!

~Isaiah

Unlock Your Child’s Potential with Eat Talk Play Therapy!

At Eat Talk Play Therapy, we specialize in pediatric speech, language, and feeding therapy to help your child communicate and thrive. Our dedicated and compassionate team offers personalized sessions designed to meet your child’s unique needs, fostering growth in a fun and supportive environment.

Contact us at 2054954467 or [email protected] to make an appointment today!

We are so honored to serve all of our students in the Creative Arts! Contact our office if you wish for your child to be added to our waiting list!

🖼️🎨✏️ Little Artist Class 🖼️ 🎨 ✏️

✨✨Bring your littles and join us for a FUN six week class! We can’t wait to see their creativity BLOOM! This class will be held on Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30PM!✨✨

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Fall semester starts NEXT Monday, August 12th! We can’t wait to see all of our students!

What a FANTASTIC first full production! We are so proud of all our students hard work and dedication to this show! Fairytale Court Room was a hilarious show full of whit and sass!

Now to start on Christmas 2024!

Register your kiddos for our Theater Club at Thewillowprojectal.com/register

A BIG thank you and congratulations to our Theater teacher Kelsey Martin! You did a great job!

✨We can’t wait to celebrate each participant and experience the enchantment of The Fairytale Court!✨

📍12696 Hwy-78 East, Jasper, Al

🎟️Tickets for sale at the door ($5.00)

Anyone have a few choir mics or wireless mics available for rent this weekend?

🎟️🎭Summer Theater Camp 2024 🎭 🎟️

🚨Theater Camp begins in TWO weeks, register TODAY!🚨

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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

🍁🐻 Fall 2024 registration is OPEN 🍁🐻

🚨Register below TODAY for our next semester that begins on August 12th!🚨

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🍁🐻 Fall 2024 registration is OPEN 🍁🐻

🚨Register below TODAY for our next semester that begins on August 12th!🚨

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🚨🇺🇸🚨🇺🇸🚨Please take note of our upcoming closings for the 4th of July holiday! Enjoy the time with family this week! 🚨🇺🇸🚨🇺🇸🚨

Eat Talk Play Therapy, LLC is looking for a full-time and part-time Speech Language Pathologist to join our team! If you are interested in applying please send your resume to [email protected]!

Clinical Fellows are welcome to apply!

🚨Britton Creel & Jessica Haley Creel go live in 30 Mins!!! Join them, grow & have some fun! 🚨

It is so easy to get overwhelmed when talking to an overwhelmed person. Have you ever had an interaction with someone where you "caught" the other person's feeling? If we aren't careful we can get emotionally bogged down in things that are neither our responsibility nor within our control. Here are a few tips for taking to an anxious or irate person.

1)Remain calm! That's right, take a deep breath. Soften your heart to care about the person's concern while remembering that you are not responsible for their life or feelings.

2)Express empathy! Don't start with problem solving as this often intensifies a person's resistance to calming down. Statements such "you are really overwhelmed right now", "this is all really scary for you to think about", and "gosh, that's frustrating" go a long way toward reassuring the person that they are not alone.

3)Seek to engage their whole brain! The section of the brain responsible for intense feelings of anger and fear is called the Lymbic system. One of the many jobs of this system is the "fight or flight" responses of the nervous system to danger. An important insight here is that anxious and irate people are, at the root, feeling unsafe. (this is why empathy from tip two is so helpful) The challenge with the fight or flight response however is that when the limbic system is activated the higher order parts of the brain responsible for reasoning and planning go offline. In other words, anxious and irate people are literally not able to think clearly. This is why you NEVER try to have a deep discussion or plan for the future with a person in this state. What you can do is try to guide their attention to relevant facts and reassuring details. Calmly stated facts with empathy can help the anxious or irate person reconnect with the "smartest" parts of their brains.

Take courage!

~Isaiah

Call TODAY to make an appointment with Isaiah!
Now accepting Medicaid!

205-265-2210

🖌 Mondays are so FUN at TWP! 🎶

🌊🦩CAMP SPLASH 2024🦩🌊

💫You asked and we listened! Jump in and get your feet wet.. join us for a WEEK emersed in the arts!!💫

Music 🎶 🦩
Movement🕺🪩
Art 🎨 🌊
Theater 🎭 🐬
Stem 🧩🏝️

🚨AGES 7-12 Years old! Click to register!!🚨

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Theater Class, Sewing, Art & Music Lessons all happening at our Creative Arts building!