What is the Emotion Series?
In this initial Emotion Series, each emotion section has 6 activities within it, so overall there are 42 activities on offer. So, they could be spread over a few weeks, a term, or even a year! The options are endless as to how these activities are used and incorporated within the classroom.
The Emotion Series covers 7 key emotional states:
Peaceful
Scared
Angry
Powerful
Happy
Bad
Sad
These emotions make up The Emotion Circle, which is the activity at the heart of this series.
The Emotion Circle has been designed based on Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotion. It was designed to catagorize emotions into primary emotions and the responses to them, to help the user understand the nuances of emotions.
I have adapted Plutchniks wheel to not only make it more accessible for a younger audience, but to incorporate the way that emotions feel within the body, giving the user a much more visceral way of accessing and learning about emotions within their physical and energetic bodies.
Each emotion has activities within it to help the students explore and learn about not only that emotion, but their own response to that emotion. We all respond differently to emotions, your angry would look and feel different to mine. So a one-size-fits all approach to emotion regulation does not help to fully explore and understand the nuances of emotions. This is what creates authentic emotion regulators, one size does not fit all!
Each emotion has been broken down into 2 sub-sections:
Embrace
Reduce
Mindful. Practical. Accessible.
Students will learn activities that will help them embrace the way they feel in a mindful, practical, accessible way, and then they will learn how to reduce those emotions. This is not about getting rid of the way they feel, this is about learning what to do with those emotions in a way that best serves the situation they find themselves in.
This is what makes TYP’s approach so unique. It is not just yoga, it is not just mindfulness, it is not just welfare activities! TYP covers all three so that students get many different ways to learn how to access and control their emotions.
These activities are designed to be accessible for all different learning styles:
Visual – learn by seeing.
There are handouts explaining each activity
Auditory – learn by hearing.
There are videos demonstrating each activity
Kinaesthetic – learn by doing.
There are lots of physical activities in each section (yoga, mindfulness)
Read & write – learn by reading and writing.
There are written instructions, as well as welfare and journaling activities throughout
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