Being With Our Feelings: Guidebook and Four Storybooks Set

Being With Our Feelings is a toolkit that helps children develop mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing by teaching them to be with themselves and each other with acceptance, kindness, and compassion. It consists of a comprehensive toolkit, four illustrated rhyming storybooks, and activities and lesson ideas linked to each story. The approach focuses on the felt sense of feelings in the body and teaches children to get to know their feelings as energy waves, allow their feeling waves to flow and move, understand them as transient, and accept them with kindness. The four storybooks explore key themes such as accepting yourself, making independent choices, being with strong feelings, and feeling anxiety and fear. Being With Our Feelings is suitable for primary teachers, educational therapists, social workers, and all caring adults, and can be used in groups, whole classes, one-to-one settings, assemblies, staff training, and interactions with parents and the wider community.

Format: Mixed media product
Length: 356 pages
Publication date: 20 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Being With Our Feelings is a groundbreaking program that empowers children to develop essential life skills for self-acceptance, empathy, and compassion. By providing a comprehensive toolkit accompanied by four beautifully illustrated rhyming storybooks, this unique approach aims to nurture children's mental, physical, and emotional well-being, enabling them to grow strong, flourish, and endure throughout their lives.

Structured around seven key principles, the Being With Our Feelings approach focuses on the felt sense of feelings in the body rather than as thoughts in the mind. Children are taught to recognize their feelings as energy waves, allowing them to flow and move freely. They learn to understand these feelings as transient and to accept them with kindness rather than judgment.

The toolkit offers clear, easy-to-follow activities and lesson ideas linked to each story, providing a supportive and progressive framework for learning and understanding across Years 3-6. It also offers flexibility to suit the needs of any school, group, or individual.

Sensitively written with a refreshing burst of honesty, humor, and a strong youth voice, the four storybooks—I Dont Want to Be Me, I Just Cant Decide!, The Red String, and What If All the Trees Blow Away?—are uniquely designed to complement the Being With Our Feelings approach. Each book explores a key theme, such as accepting oneself, making independent choices, dealing with strong emotions like anger and anxiety, and facing fears.

With no prior training required, this program is suitable for primary school students and is designed to foster a sense of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and social skills in young learners. By embracing the power of being with their feelings, children can develop the tools they need to navigate life's challenges with resilience, empathy, and a deep understanding of themselves and others.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 297 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367772314