Our Stable Moments color-coded activities may look simple on the surface, but they are intentionally designed to build specific life skills in kids who have experienced unstable beginnings.

In this episode, I break down one of our most powerful activities: Build a Bridge. This trauma-informed mentorship activity helps foster and adopted youth develop: 🟠 Independence 🔵 Responsibility 🟢 Self-Worth

We’ll walk through:

• The trauma lens behind why some kids shut down after failure
• How to guide problem-solving without fixing it for them
• How this activity strengthens resilience and confidence
• How you can start small on a tabletop and expand to bigger bridge challenges across a room

At Stable Moments, our color-coded activities are intentionally matched to each child’s individualized Plan of Care to target the specific life skills they need to strengthen. This isn’t just an engineering challenge. It’s developmental repair.

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Many children who have experienced foster care, adoption, abuse, neglect, or abandonment haven’t had the opportunity to discover who they are or what they’re good at. Instead of exploring interests and strengths, they learned how to survive — often by giving the “right” answer rather than the true one.

In this episode, we talk about why developing a sense of self is so important for children with developmental trauma and how mentors can support strength-building in safe, relational ways. We share practical strategies mentors can use in sessions, including Stable Moments’ All About Me activity, and why noticing and naming a child’s strengths in real time can be life-changing.

Whether you’re a mentor, foster parent, or professional supporting children in care, this conversation will help you better understand how identity, confidence, and self-worth develop through consistent, trauma-informed relationships.

Topics covered include:

• Why kids with trauma often believe they’re “not good at anything”
• How survival behaviors impact identity development
• Helping kids answer “What do you like?” authentically
• Using the All About Me activity to support self-discovery
• Why naming strengths builds confidence and trust

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Some of the most powerful moments in a Stable Moments session happen between the activities — in the greeting, the transition, and the quiet spaces where connection grows.

💜 In this episode, Rebecca shares 10 simple trauma-informed practices — called Mini Moments — that mentors can use to build trust, support regulation, and strengthen key life skills with kids who have experienced trauma.

These practical tools don’t require supplies or planning, just presence and intention. Whether you’re a mentor, educator, or trauma-informed professional, you’ll leave with fresh ways to bring calm, connection, and confidence into every session. 🌱 ✨

Watch to learn:

• What “Mini Moments” are and why they matter
• How to weave trauma-informed practices naturally into sessions
• Real examples that build self-worth, responsibility, and emotional awareness

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