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Children’s Activity: Feelings Colouring
Identifying that our feelings are fluid, and ever moving supports children to understand that they do not need to always feel ‘happy’. For so many children and adults, there is a pressure to always be ‘happy’, when in reality our feelings move continually throughout the day. Learning to differentiate between different feelings is an important
Creating safe spaces for feelings
Emotional literacy sits at the core of our well-being, mental health and management of needs such as stress. When we have positive emotional literacy skills, we have a greater capacity to: However, to be able to do this we also need the right environment. The development of emotional literacy awareness requires support as well as
Children’s Activity: Journal Prompts for Friendships
Journal Prompts Journalling can help us to calm our minds by structuring our thoughts. Journal prompts help us to explore different aspects of our lives and develop a deeper understanding of them. By taking time to deeply think about different concepts, we can find peace, solutions or identify areas for support. Journal prompts are questions
The easiest way to teach accountability
A subject that often comes up when I speak with parents and professionals, is about how we teach accountability and taking responsibility with children and young people. Accountability refers to the ability to: So, how do we best teach accountability? Accountability is correlated to both positive and negative behaviours and actions. Many young people have
Children’s Activity: Creating Good Feelings
Self-care The process of emotional literacy development, includes being able to recognise and meet our own needs. Happiness is a feeling that we can create, as is feeling good and having positive opportunities. Download here Next steps: Want to learn more? Would you like to deliver emotional literacy interventions in your work? Our Level 3
10 questions to ask yourself today
Questions are incredible things. The questions we ask can completely change the direction that we take and the feelings that we evoke. Think for a moment, if you ask a child ‘did you have a good day at school?’ they will often tell you ‘No!’. However, if you shift that question to ‘what was the
Children’s Activity: June Colouring
Download here Free Activity So, this week, our free activity is a downloadable mandala colouring sheet, so you can unwind together. Why not make it a family affair and all have a go…. Want to learn more? Are you looking for a deeper understanding of child mental health? Our Level 4 Child and Adolescent Mental
Why we need self-awareness
Whilst in a meeting this week, we had a discussion about self-awareness that I wanted to share, because it highlights a set of skills that are paramount to our well-being. Self-awareness refers to our ability to have “conscious knowledge of our own character and feelings”. This includes being aware of our feelings, and what drives
Children’s Activity: 10 questions to feel good
Journal Prompts Journalling can help us to calm our minds by structuring our thoughts. Journal prompts help us to explore different aspects of our lives and develop a deeper understanding of them. By taking time to deeply think about different concepts, we can find peace, solutions or identify areas for support. Journal prompts are questions
Why we need Glimmers and Glows
Glimmers have become more popular over the last few years, and we often see social media posts talking about them. So, what is a glimmer and a glow? Glimmers Glimmers are micro-moments of pleasure that we experience in the day. These small moments, when we give them attention, provide us with calm, peace and connection.
Children’s Activity: 9 ways to decompress
With exams upon us, supporting young people to decompress between exams to manage their stress levels and support them to retain their revision is an important, and often missed aspect of the preparation process. So, we are sharing 9 ways that young people can decompress between their exams (and after). 9 ways to decompress Download
Why are boundaries so important?
When I teach about mental health, I frequently talk about why children desperately need structure and boundaries. Sometimes, people can feel that it is being too rigid to give children structure, and that children should be able to choose these things for themselves. So, let’s look at why boundaries and structure matter: What should we
Children’s Activity: Move your focus
If you read our article this week, we were exploring the impact of our perspective, and where our head is. If you missed it, you can read it here. Being able to ask yourself the right questions, and shift your focus is an important skill when it comes to regulating our feelings and behaviours. Free
Where is your head?
I often have conversations in my coaching and therapy work about where our perspective is and the impact that this has on our mental health and well-being. Depending on where we focus, has a significant impact on our thoughts and feelings. If we focus on the PAST, we can find ourselves focussed on regrets, ruminating,
Children’s Activity: Calm your mind
Learning to calm our mind when we feel anxious or overwhelmed, allows us to move from our amygdala (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) into our prefrontal cortex (logic/reasoning/regulation). Often, we can catch ourselves asking children hundreds of questions about ‘what is wrong?’ ‘what is the matter?’ ‘how do you feel?’ and notice their anxiety escalating as we draw more
Why your vagus nerve is important
*Note – this article is not medical advice, and should not be used as such. It is for information purposes only. We don’t often talk about our vagus nerve, but this incredible nerve is central to so many issues that arise in coaching and therapy. The Vagus Nerve influences our mood, emotions and overall well-being
Children’s Activity: Journal for Self-love
Journal Prompts Journalling can help us to calm our minds by structuring our thoughts. Journal prompts help us to explore different aspects of our lives and develop a deeper understanding of them. By taking time to deeply think about different concepts, we can find peace, solutions or identify areas for support. Journal prompts are questions
Why coaching for children?
If you caught our last article, we looked at the variations between coaching, therapy and counselling, so today I want to look at why coaching needs to be in our priority list for children and young people. Coaching can feel like a new concept, but in reality, it has been around for a long time.
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