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Expressing feelings is an important life skill we all need to learn and is at the heart of emotional wellbeing. However, sometimes we can’t find the right words to describe feelings.
Stones …have feelings too! is a 52 card resource and 43 page information booklet that helps people discuss feelings in a fun and engaging way.
Remember picking up a stone or pebble because there was just something about it? Well, here’s a whole quarry of quirky, engaging, happy, sad, afraid, shy, joyful and just plain outrageous 'stone' characters, specially created for building a feelings vocabulary. Characters who wear their feelings all over their not-so-stony faces.
Describing feelings is at the heart of emotional literacy and therapeutic work. Yet, sometimes people interpret feelings very differently. Each card in this set features a stone on one side, and three words on the reverse to describe the emotion shown. Hey, that stone seems to be quivering: is he embarrassed, humiliated or shy? What about that heavy stone rubbing his chin: is he thoughtful, curious or concerned?
Counsellors, teachers, therapists, social workers and anyone who works with others will find that this set of 52 full-colour cards and booklet is a wonderful tool for talking about, and reflecting upon, feelings. If you’re running a workshop, start by asking the participants to choose a card that shows how they’re feeling now, and how they hope to feel at the end of the day. If you’re a therapist, you might choose these cards to open a conversation with a client about a difficult problem. Which card represents the client’s feelings when the problem is worst? Which card represents the time when the problem is gone or more manageable?
Sometimes we simply do not have words for our feelings. Sometimes our feelings are overwhelming and we need tools for working with them. Sometimes we struggle to interpret the feelings of others. But always the ability to express feelings is at the heart of emotional well-being. Illustrator, Ray Bowler, has breathed life into these rollicking stone characters and proved what every child who has ever carried a stone around in their pocket knows…stones have feelings too.
Each card pack comes with free access to an online toolbox of extras. The Digital Toolbox includes:
52 full-colour, laminated cards, 150 x 100mm
44-page booklet
Presented in a polypropylene box
This resource comes with a Digital Toolbox which includes:
"We used the Stones cards to good effect in a domestic violence group for children 7–11 years of age. Each child was asked to choose a card that represented their feelings about the group closing, and then to describe their feelings. The cards suited the various personalities in the group, and the children freely expressed what they saw in the cards and were not distracted by the words on the back."
- Anne McCrea and Lyn Browne, Social Workers
