To get the full Being With Our Feelings experience, this book can be purchased alongside the storybooks. All books can be purchased together as a set, Being With Our Feelings: Guidebook and Four Storybooks Set
A vital resource, full of practical advice for developing and nurturing children’s emotional, mental and physical wellbeing, this toolkit offers a range of easily implementable, creative options to teach young people how to be with their feelings, themselves and each other with acceptance, kindness and compassion. Using storytelling, movement, drama, art, spoken word, guided meditations and providing plenty of photocopiable and visual aids, the Being With Our Feelings toolkit is a must-have resource for ensuring a mindful, embodied approach to wellbeing.
Centred around the teaching of seven key principles carefully designed to develop healthy relationships with our feelings, this toolkit provides a comprehensive and progressive framework (suggested for Years 3–6), as well as the flexibility to suit the needs of any school, group or individual. Each key is unpacked through a main teaching activity with clear teaching points, followed by mindful reflections, creative explorations and opportunities to apply learning using the accompanying storybooks. With opportunities for assessing understanding and progression throughout, this toolkit follows a TEARS structure – teaching and exploring, applying, reviewing and self-evaluating.
Being With Our Feelings encourages:
Whether you are a teacher or school leader looking to develop your wellbeing curriculum or a caring adult looking to help children to be with all their feelings in a healthy way, this accessible book will enable you to support children’s enhanced development through a greater sense of self-worth and acceptance.
PART 1 - About being with our Feelings (BWOF)
PART 2 - Activities & Resources
Keys 1 & 2 (YEAR 3)
Keys 3 & 4 (YEAR 4)
Keys 5 & 6 (YEAR 5)
Key 7, all 7 Keys & transition (YEAR 6)
Integrating BWOF Across the School Community
PART 3 - More Photocopiable Resources
10. Feeling Bubble
11. I Am Feeling…
12. The Creativity Explorers
13. TEARS structure
14. Blank TEAR
15. Language Swaps
16. Meditations
PART 4 - Appendix
"An astounding, sympathetic and empathetic guide to children's emotional health and wellbeing which surely must find a place in every school… It’s just brilliant."
- Andrew Cowley, Wellbeing Speaker and Writer, author of ‘The Wellbeing Toolkit’ and ‘The Wellbeing Curriculum’.
"At a time when wellbeing has never been more important, Anita Kate Garai has created a comprehensive and heartfelt guide to embedding practices of awareness, kindness and reflection to how we relate to ourselves and our emotions… a magnificent resource."
- Lorna Walker, Wellbeing Writer for BBC, Senior Teacher at Youth Mindfulness, Founder of Compassionate System.