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Philosophy & Mission Statement
WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT
Congratulations on caring enough to invest in your child’s future development, education, and physical well being.
We pledge to provide our students a fun, safe, well-structured and physically exerting program, always within the scope of our philosophy and mission.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
To develop a child’s SELF-ESTEEM by providing SUCCESS experiences in a
NON-COMPETITIVE environment.
Our NON-COMPETITIVE approach to teaching makes us unique. It is the nature of competition to produce more losers than winners. Young children exposed to loosing tend to shy away from contests anticipating failure. The few young competitors that do win, often develop conditional self-esteem. When the self-esteem fluctuates based on the performance, the child goes through tremendous emotional turmoil. This is an unhealthy psychological state where the children feel good about themselves when they perform well, and feel bad about themselves when they perform poorly. Healthy children will always feel good about themselves, and only feel bad about their performance. With healthy self-esteem we can easily perceive our mistakes as lessons instead of failures.
By removing the contest from the activity the child is free to enjoy learning without the risk, or fear, of being judged. Removing contests includes avoiding statements like “who can be the first to line up”, or “Who can do the most push-ups?”
We must never compare one child’s abilities or accomplishments to those of another child. We only compare a child’s performance to their own previous performance. We believe that EVERY STUDENT SHOULD BE MADE TO FEEL LIKE A WINNER.
OUR MISSION
To help children feel good about themselves.
To help raise the level of fitness and self-esteem in our students.
To help students believe that they can accomplish whatever they put their mind and effort to.
Our belief controls our thoughts. Believe that you can or believe that you can’t, either way you are right. Many children enter our program with limiting thoughts and beliefs. Often these children will say, “I can’t” before they even attempt a new challenge. It is an important part of our job to help change this learned negative pattern. We do this with language (replacing “can’t” with words and thoughts like “I’m scared”, or “I don’t know how”, or “I need help”) and by creating challenges that they can successfully accomplish.
100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
We are so confident you will love our program that we offer you a “no risk” enrollment guarantee. If, after your first month, you are not completely satisfied with our program we will give you 100% of your money back!
We would appreciate your comments on why you were dissatisfied so that we can learn and improve our services, but you will be under no obligation to stay.
Thank you for entrusting your child(ren) in our care. We do not take this responsibility lightly and will always do our best to provide the highest quality instruction possible.
If, for any reason, you wish to contact me, please do not hesitate to call or set up an appointment to see me.
Sincerely,
Steve Henneford
Steve Henneford, President
Flathead Gymnastics Academy
153 7th Avenue West North - Kalispell, MT. - 59901 - (406) 752-4000
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Open Gym
We have open gym every Thursday mornings from 9:00 - 10:00 AM and on Friday evenings from 6:00-8:00 PM.
The cost of open gym is only $10 per child for non members (not currently enroled in a class)
$7 for members (currently enroled in a class
$5 for all team members
Anyone may attend open gym so bring your friends and have a blast.
*** If there is no School in district 5 then there is NO open gym ***
*** There will not be open gym in the summer ***
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