Teaching Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to be smart about feelings, both our own and the feelings of others. Through our Feelings Detective® program, children learn how to N.A.M.E their feelings in healthy ways, which stands for Notice, Accept, Manage and Express! It involves being able to spot the clues to all of our feelings and listening to the messages they bring. This includes understanding what brought the feelings to the surface and equipping children with tools to manage their emotions in healthy ways, helping them to establish healthy relationships and SHINE through school and beyond!
Why is teaching EI so important?
While children are born with intelligence, which is the ability to learn, emotional intelligence is a set of skills that needs to be acquired and continuously improved with practice. Children have feelings from birth but not the ability to label or understand them, control their impulses, or problem-solve effectively. Knowing how to manage intense emotions, which we call BIG feelings, including stress and anxiety, are essential skills for learning and life. Emotional intelligence is undoubtedly one of the key stepping stones to success, and as parents, we play an indispensable role in helping our children develop these skills.
We believe in learning and growing together, teaching children to become Feelings Detectives® with YOU as their Emotional Coach!
How does it work?
This program is designed to support mental health and well-being for parents/carers and children aged 3-11.
Through this six-week program, your children will be equipped with a wide range of colourful resources, activities, and games to become a Feelings Detective®. You will also gain the knowledge, understanding, and strategies you need to be their Emotional Coach. It's all about having fun, learning, and growing together through play.
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"I did the Feelings Detective course offered by Jodie at Sunny Kids Shine so that I could understand my 6yr old son's emotional outbursts and help him to resolve his negative feelings. It was a wonderful experience for me to have Jodie walk me through the process of helping him identify his feelings and manage them. It was empowering for my son to see how he can be in control of his own emotions.
He's getting better at it and I can see an improvement. It also made me realise that early intervention in mental health issues will make a huge impact when he's older dealing with more complex issues.
So glad I found your services Jodie!"
Patrice - via Google
“Jodie was patient, supportive and clear. She has a fantastic rapport with children and my 7yr old has gained so much from just 5 sessions with her. I could not recommend her enough! Thank you Jodie.”
Katie - via Facebook
“Our sessions with Jody were always really fun. She does have a special way to communicate with young children and was able to make my son smile in the most adverse situation. She has also gone the extra mile in supporting us as a family and at school. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!”
Clara - via Facebook
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“Couldn’t recommend Jodie enough. With her help my house has turned into a happy place again. We started on this journey by being recommended the feelings detective course. We saw huge improvements from this course and even with my sons ADHD Jodie kept him engaged and interested. He was doing an hour a day at school and so we also started seeing Jodie 121 via zoom. She gave us some amazing tips and strategies and we’ve seen such massive improvements. There needed to be some change and work on our part as parents but it was all worth it to see him happy, smiling and confident again. He’s now back at school full time and he won the class learner of the week last week for his amazing attitude to learning and hard work. We literally couldn’t be prouder. And we can’t thank Jodie enough!!”
Kimberley - via Facebook
“Jodie was incredible. She worked with my 3 year old daughter and I to address anxieties around sleep and going to the toilet. Over the course of our six sessions, my daughter’s behaviour changed before my eyes. I developed the tools to help reframe her thinking and to support her worries, which - in turn - brought us even closer together. The tools Jodie gave us changed our lives and I cannot recommend working with her more. She is absolutely wonderful and left a big impression on our family - my daughter still talks about how great she is! Thank you Jodie.”
Jenny via Facebook
Course Details
Our Feelings Detective® program consists of 6 unique phases:
Phase one:
We are getting to know the clues to our feelings and the feelings of others. Think about feelings in terms of facial expressions, body language, and behaviours, and be able to label and identify them, building self-awareness, acceptance, and empathy.
Phase two:
Putting feelings into context, we think about why our feelings may have come to the surface. There are no good or bad feelings, but sometimes, the thoughts and behaviours that we attach to our feelings can be helpful or unhelpful—making the feelings bigger or smaller. Through this session, we explore some techniques that will support us in feeling more in control and making healthy choices going forward.
Phase three:
We are introducing mindfulness and learning all about feeling good on the inside. This includes understanding healthy relationships and making and maintaining healthy personal boundaries. We start to build intrinsic motivation with the understanding that when we feel good on the inside, it shines on the outside.
Phase four:
We are exploring our internal feelings and volcanoes and building emotional self-regulation and impulse control. We are getting to know what it looks like when we are grounded and feeling good inside. We learned how we see that we are starting to bubble and what happens when our volcano erupts. We then think about things we can do to spot and pop the bubbles to avoid erupting and return to feeling grounded again.
Phase five:
How can we look after our feelings and the feelings of others? This is about looking after our emotional cups and being a bucket filler to fill the cups of others. Through this session, we explore social skills, prosocial behaviours, kindness, and how we can effectively communicate our thoughts, feelings, wants, needs, and wishes, particularly during times of conflict.
Phase six:
The importance of sharing our superpowers and shining our light. This session is all about bringing the learning together and realising that our feelings are just as individual as we are. Celebrating everything that we have learnt and all that we are.
Pay as you need, drop in support starts from £80 for a 1 hour session
Our full bespoke packages start from £450
We are based in St Albans, Hertfordshire and offer local in person support together with nationwide support online via Zoom
Helping children SHINE through school
Our program has been carefully designed to support the Government guidelines for the National Curriculum and Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and children’s individual Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs.
Support is available for children aged 3-11 years old, and some examples of how we work with children in education and the community are:
Full classes of up to 30 children for one hour a week for 12 weeks
12-week block of sessions for focus groups of up to 8 children, focusing on more specific needs and challenges
After-school clubs for children in Years 1-6
30-minute breakfast clubs, getting the children ready for the day
30-minute lunchtime clubs
Staff INSET training sessions
Whole-school wellbeing days, with each class experiencing an emotional wellbeing workshop
One-off emotional well-being sessions for Brownies, Scouts, etc.
12-week blocks of sessions with private Nurseries
Weekly community sessions for children aged 5-11
Proud to be working for a brighter future
With Home-start Hertfordshire
We work with many charities and community groups, facilitating a wide range of workshops, parenting sessions, and staff training in person and via Zoom.
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“What can I say, Jodie has been amazing for my me and my daughter. We went to Jodie as my daughter had a severe dog phobia that was affecting our lives considerably. We had tried everything. Jodie met with me free of charge to discuss the issues we were having and what her potential involvement could be. We decided to go for it and after one session we had no regrets, my daughter had already started the process of being ‘ok’ or ‘accepting’ of dogs after one session. We worked through Jodie’s process along with our zoom sessions with Jodie and to my absolute shock, my daughter is now able to go to the park, beach, woods, and have dogs running around off the lead, which if you had ever seen this experience previously you would know what a massive transformation this is. Jodie was kind, patient and very engaging with both me and my daughter. She didn’t only teach my daughter but she taught me how to react in these situations. Highly recommend to anyone with a child experience a phobia or general anxiety issues.”
Franki - via Facebook
"Jodie helped my son through a bad patch where his anger was taking over all of our lives. Since seeing Jodie he is much calmer and now has the tools to manage his feelings. Family life is so much better, Jodie is fabulous."
Ellyn -Via Facebook
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"I can’t recommend Jodie enough… she has helped so much with my little boys who is 4. I never thought I’m a million years it would be as amazing as it was. She has taught us all so much and helped with my little mans feelings. Thank you so much Jodie"
Maria via Facebook
"I can not recommend Jodie enough! We originally signed up for her Feelings Detective package for our 8 year old son who was really struggling with his anger and displaying some very aggressive and worrying behaviours. Throughout the course though the strategies also helped our 3 year old daughter and we absolutely love her feelings cards! The whole process has been so insightful for us all and has definitely bought us closer as a family. We have a much happier, calmer and more content household all round. She is so knowledgeable and the way she works, ensuring that you are secure at one stage of learning before you proceed to the next, always working at your pace and clearly communicating everything every step of the way is so unique. I have never come across anything like what she does before but can not recommend it enough. Every family should do it and it should be offered in every school, to every child. You really have created something very special Jodie and it is so needed, now more than ever! Thank you so much for everything and I wish you every bit of continued success xx"
Susannah via Google
We are based in St Albans, Hertfordshire and offer local in person support together with nationwide support online via Zoom
Our ultimate objective is to help children feel more equipped to cope with the pressures they face in this ever-increasing, fast-paced world. We want them to have more self-awareness and a greater understanding of others.
Resilience is developed when children have confidence in themselves and can manage their feelings healthily.
