Emotion Explorers
It's a calm-skills and feelings-vocabulary programme for children.
Emotion Explorers is currently a pilot programme, and during this first pilot I facilitate every session myself.
Session outline
Groups of about five children meet once a week at school, each led by an authorised facilitator. Sessions are hands-on and active, and nobody has to share anything private. The full outline goes to authorised facilitators with the materials.
Age range
Years 5 and 6, roughly ages 10 to 12, in Australian primary schools.
What children practise
Children practise noticing how a feeling shows up, naming it more precisely, and choosing a helpful next step. Along the way they build up closer feelings words and try things out with made-up characters, never real stories.