VIDEOS LOOKING AT INDIVIDUAL EMOTIONS
- What can we say about Anger ?
A video that explores many aspects of anger: the physical symptoms, what can trigger anger, techniques to avoid aggressive responses, how we can make anger a positive thing, how to empathise or sympathise with someone who is angry etc This video can be watched on its own but is supported well by the video: What can we say about emotions? Part 4. What can we say about emotions? Parts 6 and 7 also support the contents of this video.
- What can we say about Anxiety ?
A video that explains why we evolved anxiety, how it affect us and what can help us to manage it.
- What can we say about Worry ?
Explores what worrying is, how it is linked to thinking and what we can do to help ourselves when we worry.
- What can we say about Sadness ?
Explores the triggers of sadness, its symptoms, different words for sadness to improve emotion vocabulary and what can help us cope with sadness.
- What can we say about Shame?
A video that explores this more complex but potentially powerful emotion, its link to self esteem and how to cope with it.
- What can we say about Happiness ?
This video looks at the emotion of joy as well as the happiness that’s an indication of how contented we are with our lives.
- What can we say about Hurt ?
A video that looks at the hurt we feel when we think someone has treated us unfairly and how to cope with it.
- What can we say about Fear ?
A video that looks at fear and explains the fear response and it’s link to anxiety, stress and worry.
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
A description of emotional literacy and comparing the actions of someone with good emotional literacy with someone with poor emotional literacy to highlight its impact and how it helps.
What you can do to improve your emotional intelligence.
Ten tips that it is essential to understand to improve our emotional literacy.
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MINDFULNESS
- A short video on Mindfulness (for grown ups) that links the aims of mindfulness to spiritual wellbeing. Slightly different from my usual videos but great emotional literacy is linked to spiritual development.
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ACTIVITIES FOR EXPLORING EMOTIONS
Suitable for teachers, parents and carers to use with children. On my YouTube Channel. Listed and linked here: Activities for Exploring Emotions.
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WHAT CAN WE SAY ABOUT EMOTIONS….
Videos looking at general aspects of different emotions.
- What can we say about emotions? Part 1 What are emotions?
Explores what emotions are and what might trigger different emotions.
- What can we say about emotions? Part 2 Enjoyable and unenjoyable emotions
Explores the idea of emotions being enjoyable and unenjoyable. Starts to look at the effect emotions have on us.
- What can we say about emotions? Part 3 Emotions have different strengths
Explores the idea of emotions having different ‘strengths’. Also looks at the varied vocabulary for happiness, sadness and anger and how strongly each word might indicate we are experiencing any particular emotion.
- What can we say about emotions? Part 4 How emotions affect us
Looks at the effect emotions can have on us – especially worry, sadness and anger.
- What can we say about emotions? Part 5 Getting good at recognising when you are feeling an unenjoyable emotion and what triggered it.
Emotional check-ins and prompts to help children think what might have triggered unenjoyable emotions.
- What can we cay about emotions? Part 6 Exploring the link between thoughts and emotions
Looking how different interpretations of the same event can lead to quite different emotions being triggered
- What can we say about emotions? Part 7 Emotional responses
Exploring our reactions when we are experiencing unenjoyable emotions – what helps, what doesn’t?
- What can we say about emotion? Part 8 Surviving unenjoyable emotions
A look at coping strategies for emotions that can hang about for a while like worry or sadness.
- What can we say about emotions? Part 9 Why emotions don’t always serve us well
Looking at why emotions evolved and why this means they sometimes don’t suit us in the modern world – especially those which release adrenaline like anger or fear. This will help children understand why emotions sometimes cause us difficulties.
- Part 10 – see above – Top ten tips for emotional literacy
- What can we say about emotions? Part 11 Empathy
Exploring what empathy is, how it helps and how we can become better at it.
- What can we say about emotions? Part 12 Moods
Exploring moods – and how they are different from emotions
- What can we say about emotions? Part 13 The emotions of learning
Exploring the emotions of learning, focus, mistakes, and developing a really positive attitude towards learning
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POSSIBLY COMING SOON…..
Creative ways to think about and explore emotions – in a sort of celebratory way!
- What can we say about disappointment?
- What can we say about boredom?
- What can we say about embarrassment?
- What can we say about jealousy?
- What can we say about gratitude?
- What can we say about loneliness?
- What can we say about surprise?
- What can we say about guilt?
And more…
Future topics will include:
anxiety, kindness, resilience, optimism, self-esteem, keeping our mind healthy and more.