To achieve emotional maturity this programme teaches:

• Self-awareness
• Self-management
• Impulse control
• Active listening
• Empathy
• Ability to understand non-verbal cues
• Stress management
• Conflict resolution
• Mediation
• Optimistic outlook
• Acceptance of other people

Central to the programme is how to deal with angry outbursts – known as ‘emotional hijacks’ – when the brain floods with chemicals and all rational thought becomes impossible. It includes ‘pre-emotional hijacks’ where biochemicals such as adrenaline and flight-or-fight hormones start to kick in, right through to the ‘post-emotional hijacks’.

This resource is broken down into eleven session plans:

• Feeling words – Focuses on the many words that describe feelings.
• Feelings focus – Understanding that there are six basic feelings: anger, sadness, happiness, fear, surprise, disgust.
• Different kinds of anger – Identifying different words that describe anger and putting them on an intensity scale.
• What I get angry about – Identifying situations, people or physiological conditions that trigger anger and look at ways to respond to them.
• What I can do when my anger is building up – Gives pupils a range of options to use when they feel angry.
• When I talk to myself – Teaches stress management, how to soothe, relax and calm themselves with self-talk.
• Melt Down 1 – Describes how people feel when they experience an emotional hijack.
• Melt Down 2 – Learning ways to stop the anger exploding.
• After the Storm – Understanding what happens after an emotional hijack and learning empathy.
• Making ‘I’ Statements – Learning how to repair damage after an emotional hijack.
• Rules for Myself – Helps students to work out their own rules for behaviour when they have an emotional hijack and evaluate what they have learnt about anger management.

Each session plan details the aim, resources required, method, time to allocate and is accompanied by reproducible student and teacher sheets.

• ISBN: 978-1-907370-72-4
• Format: A4 Ring-bound Book
• Length: 76 pages
• Age Range: 5-11
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It covers:

• How to introduce mindfulness
• Teaching the concept of breath
• Guided imagery
• Mindful movement
• Mindful eating
• Mindful walking
• Using mindfulness across the curriculum
• How to incorporate mindfulness activities within the classroom routine

This resource is packed with different ideas and scripts that are ready for teachers to just pick up and use. It includes a FREE CD which contains the audio recording of breathing exercises, guided imagery, mindful eating and mindful walking. It also includes beautifully illustrated picture cards at the back of the resource with short scripts to support mindful movement.

An absolutely delightful resource, guaranteed to be a popular activity with children and create a calm classroom.

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Comprehensive, accessible and tried-and-tested classroom lessons are provided and cross-referenced throughout for easy identification in all the following areas:

• Self Awareness – Knowing myself; Understanding my feelings
• Managing My Feelings – Managing how I express my emotions; Changing uncomfortable feelings and increasing pleasant feelings
• Motivation – Working towards goals; Persistence, resilience and optimism; Evaluation and reviewing
• Empathy – Understanding the thoughts and feelings of others; Valuing and supporting others
• Social Skills – Building and maintaining relationships; Belonging to groups; Solving problems including interpersonal ones.
• The resource includes exercises, stories, games and puzzles. They are suitable for either one-off lessons, looking at specific issues, or can be delivered as a series of developmental sessions which can also be adapted for accreditation.

• ISBN: 978-1-909380-81-3
• Format: A4 Book and CD Rom (with a further 128 pages of activities.)
• Length: 132 pages
• Age Range: 11-16
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This book is intended for use by those working in a variety of settings including schools, alternative education settings, Learning Support Units, Pupils Referral Units, Isolation Units, Exclusion Rooms, youth clubs, community groups and similar settings. The activities can be led by teachers, behaviour mentors, pastoral assistants, learning mentors, isolation room leaders and Special Educational needs staff. They can be used in PSHE, Circle Time, one-to-one sessions, small group work and mentoring sessions.

The book offers a range of activities that include identification of stress, assessment, the impact of stress upon a young person, relaxation techniques and other ways that help learners to manage stress and anxiety. The content covers:

• What is Stress and Anxiety – Definitions
• Recognising Stress and Anxiety – What happens when I am stressed? Why I need to do something about it
• Managing Stress and Anxiety – Coping strategies and techniques
• Moving Forwards with Coping

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The 20 activities include:

• My Anger Triggers – For students to recognise the initial signs of anger and identify some ways of defusing the emotion of anger.
• Anger Matrix – To give students the opportunity to map their approach to anger and visualise where they are going and where they would like to be.
• Initial Self-Assessment: Relating to Others – To give students the opportunity to assess themselves in order to provide a baseline for measuring progress with a focus on relating to others and issues of conflict.
• Student Reassessment and Evaluation – To give students the opportunity to reassess themselves in order to measure progress.
• How I Feel When I am Angry – To give students the opportunity to reflect upon the physical responses to anger.
• A Letter Home – For students to recognise how others may view their behaviour and reflect upon the impact this behaviour has upon others.
• Ways of Coping – For students to generate ways of coping in moments of crisis.
• Improving my Listening – The aim of this activity is to raise student awareness of listening skills and how to improve them.
• Dilemmas 1 & 2 – To give students the opportunity to consider dilemma-based learning situations.
• Conflict: What it is and How to Deal With it – To raise awareness of the skills students will need to enable them to mediate between students in conflict.
• Read All About it: Making Headlines – Students are to consider the content of a story then think about how stereotypes can influence people’s actions and reactions.
• Crime Scene Investigation – To give students the opportunity to act as investigators and look objectively at a given situation and come to their own conclusion, thereby encouraging independent thinking.
• What Happens Next? (1 & 2) – These activities aim to help students to consider a set of circumstances and consequences.
• Stop Seeing Red – To identify strategies for coping with highly charged emotional situations.
• My Autobiography – To augment and support the idea that the students’ decisions have an impact upon their lives and their futures.
• My Progress – For students to demonstrate that there is measurable progress in aspects of their learning.
• Target Setting and Action Planning – To develop a set of SMART targets and create a plan of action.
• Review: Target Setting and Action Planning – To review a set of targets and prepare a further plan of action.

Each activity includes full instructions and worksheets which can be photocopied from the A4 book or printed out from the FREE CD-Rom.

• ISBN: 978-1-909380-49-3
• Format: A4 Ringbound Book and CD Rom
• Length: 74 pages
• Age Range: 10-16
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Themes covered include:

• What causes us to worry
• The anxiety cycle
• Physical signs of anxiety
• Breaking the cycle
• Self-harm
• Eating anxieties
• Paranoia
• What helps us to relax
• Calm

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Children will feel an instant connection to Winston’s friendly nature, especially when he shares his secret with them… that even though blue whales are the largest animal ever to have lived on earth, even though Winston is bigger than all the other sea creatures and they all think he is brave and not scared of anything, he does feel worried about a few things:

• Winston worries about being able to swim fast like the rest of his family
• He feels afraid of diving down into the deep dark ocean
• … but mostly he worries about making friends
• Children may not have exactly the same worries as a big blue whale, but they will be able to relate to feeling nervous or afraid, and I’m sure many will know how scary it can be to make new friends.

The storybook covers:

• How it feels to have a worry
• When to seek help from others
• The importance of friendship
• Recognising how we might lessen worries

FREE CD Rom includes:

• Selection of colouring sheets for young children highlighting thought-provoking questions about worries.
• Ideas for group activities with older children to encourage acknowledgement and support for worries within their peer group

• ISBN: 978-1-909380-85-1
• Format: 25cm x 18cm Book and CD Rom
• Length: 24 pages
• Age Range: Pre-school to 8
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By Stephanie George

The Mentoring Toolkit includes a step-by-step guide to the process of mentoring and covers identification of students, resources for intervention, monitoring, assessment and evaluation.

The chapters are:

• Introduction
• How to Use This Book
• The Mentoring Process
• Mentoring Policy, Protocols, Permissions and Agreements
• Identification of Barriers to Progress and Learning
• Question and Discussion Prompts Resources and Strategy Banks
• Assessments and Reassessments
• Action Plans, Target Setting, Monitoring and Review
• Daily Evidence Records
• Evaluation, Exit Resources and Feedback
• References and Bibliography
• Index of Forms

The invaluable content of this book includes:

• Practical steps for intervention from start to finish
• Flow charts to guide you through the process of intervention
• A model learning mentor intervention policy
• Identification of students – includes the process of identification and resources to help identify students who would benefit from mentoring
• Thought boxes to help students identify barriers to progress and learning inside and outside the classroom, at home and with friends
• Question and discussion prompts about relating to others and managing angry feelings, stress, pressure and anxiety, attendance, anti-bullying along with strategy banks of ideas for dealing with these issues
• Intervention in action – includes resources for monitoring the intervention
• Assessing and reassessing the impact of intervention through feedback from the student as well as subject teachers
• A Student Monitoring and Review Workbook to be given to each student to track the activities undertaken and progress made – completed by both student and staff
• Daily appointment record forms for staff and students
• Termly review and feedback forms for staff and students

The documents show the pathway for mentoring so that it can be clearly evidenced to the school, organisation, leadership teams, stakeholders and Ofsted.

Practitioners can use these resources for all forms of intervention: one-to-one, workshop or large group. The resources can also be used with the AQA Unit Award Qualification – Progress and Review with a Learning Mentor.

• ISBN: 978-1-909380-95-0
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• Length: 110 pages
• Age Range: 11-18
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By Stephanie George

This book, Resilience, the first in the Mental Health & Well-Being series, provides practical activities to help practitioners when working with children and young people in schools. There are 20 activities including:

• Early help assessment tools
• Action plans
• Assessment matrices
• Ways to help contextualise student experiences
• Signposting tools

This book is intended for use by those working in a variety of settings including schools, alternative education settings, Learning Support Units, Pupil/Student Referral Units, Isolation Units, Exclusion Rooms, and similar settings. It is suitable for learning mentors, pastoral team leaders, HLTAs, family support workers and welfare teams.

The activities can be led by teachers, behaviour mentors, pastoral assistants, learning mentors, exclusion rooms staff and special educational needs staff.

• ISBN: 978-1-909380-05-9
• Format: A4 Book
• Length: 80 pages
• Age Range: 10-16
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The activities include:

• About me
• Rules
• Feelings
• Mixed feelings
• Boasting
• We’re all different
• Empathy
• Feeling good
• Honesty
• Emotions
• Saying “Thank You”
• Respecting differences​
• Focus on feelings
• In someone else’s shoes
• Paying compliments
• How do you want to be treated by others?
• Listening
• Healthy eating
• Personal hygiene
• Growing pains
• Appropriate language
• What I have learned
• ‘Just for Fun’ activities throughout

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• Length: 88 pages
• Age Range: 5-18
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