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Friendship Explorer Club

Learn Together. Laugh Together.

Friendship Explorers Club is a centre-based social skills program that helps children build meaningful friendships while developing communication, emotional regulation, confidence, and teamwork. Through interactive games, creative projects, role play, movement activities, and collaborative missions, participants learn practical skills they can use at school, home, and with peers.

Each semester introduces a new adventure with exciting missions that build social, emotional, and executive function skills in a structured, supportive environment. Sessions are designed to be engaging, predictable, and fun while providing opportunities to practice new skills with peers every week.

Fall Semester

Friendship Detectives

Solve the mystery of great friendships.

This semester transforms participants into Friendship Detectives as they learn how to understand social situations and build positive peer relationships. Through weekly missions, children investigate conversations, decode facial expressions and body language, solve social mysteries, and work together to complete collaborative challenges.

The Friendship Explorers Club is designed to benefit elementary school children who may be facing challenges in the areas of social interaction, emotional regulation, and friendship development.

 

Focus Skills

  • Reading social cues

  • Conversation skills

  • Perspective taking

  • Teamwork

  • Problem solving

  • Cooperation

  • Friendship building

  • Conflict resolution

Winter Semester

Brave & Flexible

Building confidence one challenge at a time.

This semester encourages children to become Brave & Flexible by learning how to navigate challenges with confidence and resilience. Through engaging missions, participants discover strategies for managing emotions, coping with mistakes, adapting to unexpected situations, and trying new experiences.

Focus Skills

  • Emotional regulation

  • Flexible thinking

  • Resilience

  • Self-advocacy

  • Leadership

  • Coping with mistakes

  • Growth mindset

  • Problem solving

Spring Semester

Game Masters

Where teamwork becomes the ultimate challenge.

This semester participants work together to complete exciting cooperative games, strategy activities, and creative team projects. Participants take turns leading, communicating, negotiating, planning, and supporting one another while learning the qualities of respectful teammates and leaders. 

Focus Skills

  • Sportsmanship

  • Cooperation

  • Communication

  • Leadership

  • Collaboration

  • Planning

  • Negotiation

  • Executive functioning

WHY CHOOSE US?

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Progressive Steps Training and Consultation Inc.

274 MacKenzie Ave Unit 350 Ajax ON
 

We acknowledge that the land on which Progressive Steps is based, in Ajax, Ontario, is the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island, part of the Anishinaabe Nation. We honor the ongoing presence of all Indigenous peoples, commit to respecting the Treaties, and fostering respectful relationships.
 

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