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Feelings Detective® programme
Mindfulness and Mental Health Workshops
Feelings Detective® programme
Our popular Feelings Detective® programme is available for childcare and educational settings and is CPD accredited. It can be delivered as staff training, a 1:1 package for children, in small group sessions or delivered to a whole class or school. We also offer a variation of the programme which has been specifically designed for younger children, of preschool age.
Recipe for Friendship
Mindfulness and Mental Health Workshops
Feelings Detective® programme
Our recipe for friendship workshop is available as staff training, parenting workshops, in small group sessions or delivered as whole class or school learning. Children will develop social skills, prosocial behaviours, healthy personal boundaries, together with effective communication and conflict resolution skills. Please be advised that
Our recipe for friendship workshop is available as staff training, parenting workshops, in small group sessions or delivered as whole class or school learning. Children will develop social skills, prosocial behaviours, healthy personal boundaries, together with effective communication and conflict resolution skills. Please be advised that this is very popular during Anti-Bullying week and will need to be booked in advance.
Mindfulness and Mental Health Workshops
Mindfulness and Mental Health Workshops
Mindfulness and Mental Health Workshops
We offer educational and parenting workshops covering a wide range of mental health and wellbeing topics as well as introducing mindfulness. We teach mindfulness through mindful living and show children, families and professionals alike, how to turn their everyday activities into beautiful mindful moments. We specialise in helping you bri
We offer educational and parenting workshops covering a wide range of mental health and wellbeing topics as well as introducing mindfulness. We teach mindfulness through mindful living and show children, families and professionals alike, how to turn their everyday activities into beautiful mindful moments. We specialise in helping you bring mindfulness into your daily routine just as it is. Please be advised that these are very popular during Mental Health Awareness days/weeks and will need to be booked in advance.
1:1 or Small Group Sessions
1:1 or Small Group Sessions
Mindfulness and Mental Health Workshops
Our bespoke 1:1 package and small group sessions, support children experiencing BIG feelings. We help them learn how to N.A.M.E. them in healthy ways - which stands for Notice, Accept, Mange and Express! All of the learning is done through play and every session is tailor made to suit the child's individual needs. We strongly believe in
Our bespoke 1:1 package and small group sessions, support children experiencing BIG feelings. We help them learn how to N.A.M.E. them in healthy ways - which stands for Notice, Accept, Mange and Express! All of the learning is done through play and every session is tailor made to suit the child's individual needs. We strongly believe in learning and growing together and always aim to work with the school, child and family together.
Parent Workshops
1:1 or Small Group Sessions
Parent Workshops
We offer parenting workshops covering a wide range of topics from; setting healthy boundaries, understanding anger, working through managing anxiety and worries and fears, mental health education and more. Parents will leave equipped with practical resources, strategies and the tools they need to be able to support their children more eff
We offer parenting workshops covering a wide range of topics from; setting healthy boundaries, understanding anger, working through managing anxiety and worries and fears, mental health education and more. Parents will leave equipped with practical resources, strategies and the tools they need to be able to support their children more effectively. We also provide a handy workbook, packed full of educational information on everything covered.
Staff Training
1:1 or Small Group Sessions
Parent Workshops
We offer staff training, covering a wide range of topics on all aspects of mental health, wellbeing and personal, social and emotional learning and development. Staff will leave equipped with practical resources, strategies and the tools they need to be able to support the children that they work with more effectively. We also provide a h
We offer staff training, covering a wide range of topics on all aspects of mental health, wellbeing and personal, social and emotional learning and development. Staff will leave equipped with practical resources, strategies and the tools they need to be able to support the children that they work with more effectively. We also provide a handy workbook packed full of information on everything covered.
Educational mental health services and staff training
Our unique Become a Feelings Detective® 6 week course
Who is this course for?
This programme is designed for parents, carers, professionals and children aged 3-11 years old and is available as staff training, in small group sessions and as a bespoke one to one package.
Through this 6 week programme children will be equipped with a wide range of colourful resources, activities and games to become 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.
Course Details
Our program consists of 6 unique phases:
Week one: Identifying and labelling feelings. Thinking about what feelings look like in terms of facial expressions, body language and behaviours. Getting to know the clues to our feelings and the feelings of others.
Week two: Putting feelings into context, thinking about why our feelings may have come to the surface. There are no good or bad feelings, but some thoughts, feelings and behaviours can be helpful or unhelpful. Through this session we explore some techniques that will support us to feel more in control and make healthy choices going forward.
Week three: Introducing mindfulness and learning all about feeling good on the inside. Starting to build intrinsic motivation and the understanding that when we feel good on the inside, it shines on the outside.
Week four: Exploring our internal Feelings Volcano, building emotional self-regulation and impulse control. Getting to know what it looks like when we are grounded and feeling good on the inside. Learning how we know that we are starting to bubble and what happens when our volcano has erupted. We then think about things that we can do to spot and pop the bubbles so that we avoid erupting and go back to feeling grounded again.
Week five: How we can look after our feelings and the feelings of others. This is about looking after our emotional cup and being a bucket filler to fill the cups of other. Through this session we explore social skills, prosocial behaviours, kindness and how we can communicate our thoughts, feelings, wants, needs and wishes, particularly during times of conflict, effectively.
Week 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.
This course is CPD accredited so professionals can receive a certificate of attendance upon completion.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️"Following on from our training with Jodie and Sunny Kids Shine programme we used the feeling cards this week in a variety of ways. We read the emotion with the child, talked about when we have felt this emotion, talked about how it’s OK to have a feeling and how we might be able to deal with an emotion, if we didn’t like it! The children played snap game and really enjoyed looking at the cards. Such a simple yet powerful resource to introduce young children to emotions and teach them to talk about things. ‘Worried’ was a hard emotion for children to understand but talking about it with a grown up by giving simple examples helped the children understand this and normalise this emotion. Thanks Sunny Kids Shine for all your useful tips and advice too." Owner of Little Stars Pre-School & Nursery via Facebook
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