HOW DO EMOTIONS AFFECT CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOUR?
HOW CAN EMOTION AND SOCIAL WELL BEING MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
If a child is emotionally upset whether the emotion is anger, guilt, sadness or a range of other emotions, then they are not likely to function in a healthy way with regards to their behaviour. They may for instance express their anger by projecting it onto others as verbal aggression or violence. The other person that they project it onto may not have been the instigator of the emotion but an innocent bystander!
Children who have inner emotional turmoil are unlikely to be receptive to learning or responding in an appropriate way.
If you are working with these children it is extremely useful to have ideas and resources to help them express their emotions in non-violent ways.
I know that as a counsellor myself for many years, I was constantly looking for resources to use in my counselling role, especially ones that were interactive and fun.
WOULD YOU LIKE IDEAS AND RESOURCES TO HELP THE CHILDREN
THAT YOU ARE WORKING WITH?
TO HELP THEM TO BECOME MORE SOCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY?
We offer stimulus materials and activities to help to encourage children to open up and express themselves so that emotional healing can take place.
The activities we offer are based on the use of art therapy, drama, role play, dance and movement and creative writing to encourage children to express their feelings.
Art therapy for example, is a very useful and effective tool to use one on one or with small groups of children to help them to express their feelings.
Many children find it difficult to talk about their feelings but if they are drawing a picture it seems to put them at ease and they often begin to open up.
Other activities are offered which are based on inner body work. This involves looking inside the body to find out where the feeling or hurt is and then breathing it and/or doing other exercises to express and release the feeling.
Drama and role play activities are offered as part of our program and provide fun, effective ways of helping children express their feelings and find better ways of responding to life issues.
WOULD YOU LIKE TRAINING TO HELP YOU TO IMPROVE YOUR REPERTOIRE OF SKILLS AND IDEAS FOR SUPPORTING CHILDREN’S EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING?
As well as a number of Activity based books we also offer an E-training course for anyone working with children and supporting their social and emotional well-being.
More about of this course
- This e-course has been created to provide resources and training to encourage and support the development of SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE in children
- Teaching EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE skills has been found to be a KEY FACTOR in producing happy kids with good self-esteem who are socially and educationally more successful
- The Program focuses on helping children to learn how to manage their own emotional energy as well as how to be more aware of other people’s emotional energy and how it affects them
- It introduces them to relaxation, visualization and breathing and body awareness techniques and teaches them how to use these techniques to centre and manage their own energy
- Creative self-expression activities are uses throughout these sessions including games, role-plays, movement/dance, art, story telling and more, to help children to explore and express emotions
- The program also helps to empower kids to deal with life issues such as bullying, friendships, anxiety etc
If you would like more detailed information about our resources or our training courses please go to www.rainbowplanetconnection.com
Or e-mail carol@rainbowplanetconnection.com
Written by Carol Wood