Social Success

Currently no further dates scheduled for 2024                                                    

Shyness and social anxiety can be a struggle.

If you experience shyness or social anxiety you might avoid social situations and have trouble connecting with others due to strong fears of humiliation, rejection and judgement. As a shy person, you may also experience panic attacks that make it even more likely that you will avoid social situations.

This group will help you to overcome social anxiety, by learning to handle performance fears, test anxiety, and interpersonal concerns. It runs for eight sessions over eight weeks (two hours per session) and will help you to:

• Understand how we get caught up by our fears of others' judgements, so that we avoid social situations and do unhelpful things to ‘play safe’
• Develop psychological flexibility skills to improve your ability to accept the feelings, thoughts, and behaviour that may arise as you learn to work past your anxiety and achieve what you care about
• Develop skills in mindfulness (noticing, flexible attention, willingness)
• Connect to your personal values, to guide actions that will build greater social confidence.

You will also receive individual coaching from a Provisionally-registered Psychologist. The group will provide you with self-help materials to use between meetings.