We are a team of professional Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Behavioural Practitioners, Counselors and Teachers who enjoy creating resources to support children and young people to build confidence, resilience and ensure optimal learning. We are motivated by passion to create educational and therapeutic resources which are evidence-based, creative, innovative and flexible.
We are a team of professional Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Behavioural Practitioners, Counselors and Teachers who enjoy creating resources to support children and young people to build confidence, resilience and ensure optimal learning. We are motivated by passion to create educational and therapeutic resources which are evidence-based, creative, innovative and flexible.
This is a fun, creative and engaging intervention for students who have difficulty with persistent lying. This intervention helps students project their internal beliefs and fears about themselves onto the monster that they create and imagine and gain acceptance from you.
Although this isn’t a directive/skills-based intervention, this mini-lesson has been successful at supporting students who have a history of lying. Students are encouraged to create their own monster and explore key aspects of their monster. This intervention includes various activities, reflective questions and worksheets.
Within this intervention the monster is also encouraged to play two truths and a lie so that they play intentional truth telling and lying. Additional creative stories will be journaled to support students to understand the distinction between imagination and reality. This intervention takes the focus off the child “lying” and allow them to explore it in a creative way that isn’t directed at them.
This therapeutic intervention requires the therapist to be very curious and unconditionally accepting of the monster that the student creates and imagines.
Remember the vital role of empathy and at the end of the intervention thank the student for sharing what they would look like as a monster to support integration.
This comprehensive resource explores:
What is Stress and Anxiety?
Types of Normal Stress and High Stress Situations
Individual Triggers
Physical Symptoms of Anxiety
Reflective Activities and Worksheets
What is a Worry Monster?
Everything you need to build your own “Worry Monster”
This intervention helps students personify and project their worries onto their own monster that they create with the therapeutic aim to reflect and gain insight. Although this isn’t a directive/skills-based intervention, this mini-lesson has been successful at supporting students who experience stress and anxiety.
This intervention helps to create a sense of personal awareness and insight into their own states of stress and anxiety. The Worry Monster can also act as an outlet so that the Worry Monster can hold onto the stress and anxiety, helping to compartmentalize the stress and anxiety so that the student doesn’t have to.
This therapeutic intervention requires the therapist to be very curious and unconditionally accepting of the Worry Monster that the student creates and imagines.
Remember the vital role of empathy and at the end of the intervention thank the student for sharing what they would look like as a monster to support integration.
This is a fun, engaging, creative and non-threatening intervention which is great for students to explore emotional regulation, anger management, reflective practice and self care.
What to do?
1.Encourage students to explore each of the 24 realistic scenarios on each page and reflect on how that scenario would make them feel. This also encourages empathy, compassion and consideration into the feelings and actions of others as they resonate with each scenario.
2.The next step is for the students to explore the “Self-Care Ingredients” list and tick what self-care strategy they could employ and use for that particular scenario. This helps students to reflect, explore and gain insight into their own feelings and behaviours.
3.Students then put those ingredients into the “blender” which is located on each page to cement the lesson. There are 24 visuals for already developed self-care strategies which students can utilize. There are an addition 12 blank visual cards for students to explore some of their own individual and unique self-care strategies that work for them.
4.Lastly, students can create a name for that particular self-care smoothie. This heightens the learning outcomes and students become more likely to explore and employ these self-care strategies within their everyday life.
NOTE – There is a COMPLETED example page so students can see this resource in action!
These winter themed color by positive affirmations are a great creative way to support individuals to change negative self-talk into positive self talk.
Individuals are encouraged to repeat each affirmation as they color the corresponding number.
There are three mandalas which include:
Self-Love
Anxiety
Depression
For each picture, there are unique positive self-talk affirmations.
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Many today suffer with a damaged sense of self. Some individuals have such profound self-esteem deficits that they have internalised the belief that they are bad and that their future is hopeless. The goal of enhancing self-esteem for these students is not an easy one, but it is an important component of any successful treatment program. This workbook is to support students to focus on their strengths and abilities and promote feelings of self-worth. Students will be encouraged to develop the tools to help them focus on their strengths and abilities, promote feelings of self-worth, encourage a more optimistic attitude and install a hope for their future.
This is a 43 page workbook around emotional and protective behaviours, highlighting stress and how students can look after themselves. Includes various worksheets, posters and activities to support emotional literacy and development.
Throughout this workbook you will explore the following:
What is stress?
Symptoms of Stress
Worksheets and Activities
Stress Volcano Metaphor
Stress Management Tips
Find-A-Word
Posters
Support System (your helping hand)
Poster
Find-A-Word
Stress Diaries
Reflective Questions
Gratitude Diaries
Creative Intervention – Body Keeps the Score
Exploring defining moments in life
Many people think of being happy and excited as good emotions and anger and sadness as being bad ones. Because of this, many people spend years trying to repress, block or avoid these emotions. But it is important to know that all emotions are normal. Three are no good or bad feelings or emotions. They are messages.
This activity encourages emotional awareness by encouraging individuals to reflect and gain insight into their various emotional states.
This resource encourages students to imagine that they are walking along the beach while they are a particular emotional state and they come across a “message in a bottle” which is just perfect for what they need and want while they are in that emotional state.
This activity includes the following:
About this activity
Emotions are not good or bad handout
Imagine This… (narrative)
The process – What to do
Examples of Completed bottles (sadness and anxiety)
Bottle and Note templates for the following states (angry, sad, bored, confused, curious, disappointed, embarrassed, grumpy, excited, happy, anxious, proud, scared and shy)
"If your feelings had something important to say, what would they tell me.”
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This portfolio is engaging, reflective and thought-provoking. Everything you need to cover this topic is found in this portfolio. It covers everything from what is anxiety, warning signs, triggers, worry scales, questionnaires, learning about our body’s alarm system and flight/fight system, calming and coping strategies, brain dumping your worries, learning what is in and out of your control, crafts and much more!
This portfolio has been developed to support children to manage their anxiety and worries, build self-confidence and create a positive thinking framework. This workbook is a must have for any teacher, parent and counsellor as it is jam packed with everything needed to tackle anxiety once and for all in a very trauma-informed and positive behavioural support approach.
This portfolio is divided into six individual lessons. You can choose to use each lesson in isolation or scaffold through the lessons one by one. The six lessons include:
1.All About Anxiety
What is Anxiety?
What does anxiety look and feel like?
My anxiety checklist
Anxiety Triggers
Scale of worry poster (and worksheet)
When I feel worried worksheet
2.My Panic Button
Your body’s alarm system
Anxiety and stress continuum
My Panic Button Questionnaire
When I feel anxious worksheet
Anxiety & panic attacks
The differences and symptoms
Anxiety and your body
Helpful Thoughts
3.Calming Strategies
Calming Strategy Cards and Rating Scales
Deep Breathing
5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
Asking for Help
Personal Growth Challenge
Gratitude
Exercise and my Weekly Health Plan
Coping Skills Poster
4.Declutter Your Worries
What is a Brain Dump?
What to do?
Brain Dump your worries
When worries pile up
Sorting my worries
Dump your worries craft
Ruminating on your worries
5.My Worry Monster
Physical symptoms of anxiety
Anxiety triggers
Getting to know your worry monster
Creating your worry monster
Your helping hand
Reflective questions
Building your own worry monster templates
6.Choosing to Let Go
Being the pilot of your worries
Your Control Tower (in and out of your control)
My worries airplane craft
Take off! Taking your worries away!
Emergency oxygen mask
In and out of your worries (sorting activity)
Worry affirmations
This portfolio provides a great foundation of knowledge to support teenagers and young people to avoid risky situations and make healthier personal choices.
Teenagers and young people are faced with many influences when it comes to alcohol, drugs and peer pressure. Effective drug education can play an important counterbalancing role in shaping a normative culture of safety, moderation and informed decision making.
This portfolio takes a harm and risk mitigating approach to provide the knowledge to support individuals to make sound choices and decisions.
This portfolio supports student in the following ways:
To make healthy and safe choices (drugs, alcohol and legal limits)
Identify and reflect on potential consequences
Develop and implement risk and harm mitigating strategies
Know what to do to stay safe and if needed, reach out and get support
This portfolio is divided into six individual lessons which includes knowledge, activity worksheets, reflective activities, questionnaires and a find-a-word. You can choose to use each lesson in isolation or scaffold through the lessons one by one. The six lessons include:
ALL ABOUT ALCOHOL
What is Alcohol?
Short and long term effects
Legal alcohol limits
Why do people drink
Hangovers, Drink Spiking, Date Rape Drugs
Tips to avoid drink spiking
ALL ABOUT DRUGS
What are drugs?
How are drugs made & Why do people use?
Impact of drugs and addiction
Stimulants & depressants
Smoking & Tobacco (including vaping)
Drugs – Cannabis, Hallucinogens, ICE,
Consequences of drugs
3.PEER PRESSURE
What is Peer Pressure?
Peer Pressure Questionnaire
Why is it hard to say “No”
Influences and Decisions
Scenarios and Reflection Worksheet
Tips for Saying “No”
Preparing to Say No Bingo Tips
4.DRUGS, ALCOHOL & MENTAL HEALTH
Impact of Drugs on Mental Health
How alcohol affects your brain
Looking at your habits questionnaire
Reflection sheet
5.STAYING SAFE
Safe Partying Tips
Reducing risks
Be Drug Aware
Getting home safe and sound
International Standard Emergency Number
If your friend drinks too much…
Saying “No”
REACHING OUT
You don’t have to do it alone
Getting help
Concerns for a friend and what to do
Setting Goals
Resisting Help
Where to go for Support
Mindset is everything! This workbook supports children to develop a growth mindset and learn not to give up. It incorporates reading, expressive writing, critical thinking, reflective insight development while also teaching social and emotional learning and growth mindset skills for little learners.
The following 75 page workbook focuses on the following topics to encourage emotional wellbeing and resilience:
• Anger management
• Anxiety Management
• Emotional Regulation
• Resilience
• Self-Belief and Confidence
• Positive Thinking
• Relaxation
• Social relating
• Reflective behaviours
• Healthy choices
• Coping Skills
• Understanding your engine
• Problem solving
• Isolating and labelling behaviours
• Creative Visualisation
• Find-a-words
and much much more…
This feelings and behaviour workbook includes:
Introductory ‘about your workbook” – learning about the individual
Anger rules – what’s okay/not okay
Feeling find-a-word
Body Keeps the Score exercise – reflective exercise
Volcano anger management exercise and activity
Poster – what to do when you feel angry
Reflective anger management exercises
Star Tips for controlling anger
Emotions Poster “printable”
Rules to support change – poster
Anger Management worksheets
Deep breathing exercise
Coping skills exercise/activity
Understand your Engine – Engine Speeds
How I feel Today diary entry
Healthy me diary/journal
Cool Down Thoughts Poste
Problem Solving Reflective Activity – stop and think/choices
Knowing you feelings – reflective activity – frustration/happy/angry/mad
Helping Hand activity – who to go for support/trust
Biggest Hurt and Sadness activity
Creative Activity – Make a safe home for your pet
Bucket Activity – reflective care
SPOTLIGHT activity
And much more….
This is a workbook that can be printed and used for all children, including those with behavioural and anger management issues to support behaviour change.
This package includes over 36 exercises and activities to do with children, as well as tips and behavioural reinforcer pages.
This package has been utilized for all children and has been used within a school setting as part of a “self care” program. This can also be utilized for children with ADHD, intellectual disability, autism and/or developmental delay.
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This portfolio is engaging, reflective and thought-provoking. Everything you need to cover this topic is found in this portfolio. It covers everything from anger, warning signs, triggers, engine speed, red and green choices, helping hands vs hurting hands, emotional regulation strategies and much more!
Anger management is not just about counting to ten or deep breathing (although they are great strategies!). It is about helping you to better understand why you get angry, what sets you off (triggers), learning about your early warning signs as well as learning a variety of cool down strategies for managing those feelings more constructively. There are so many angles to support students to develop insight and understanding into anger and this portfolio is sure to have something for everyone!
This portfolio is divided into six individual lessons. You can choose to use each lesson in isolation or scaffold through the lessons one by one within a group or individual sessions. The six lessons include:
1.All About Anger
What is Anger?
What does Anger look & feel like?
Warning signs and triggers
My anger questionnaire
Consequences (keeping vs loosing your cool)
Anger awareness
2.My Engine Speeds
Our Speedometer
Managing my car speeds (low, just right, high)
Sometimes we need a mechanic
Revving up and calming down strategies
Posters
3.Red & Green Choices
What are red and green choices
Red/green choices poster
Spotlight on your choices
Is this a good or poor choice worksheet
What are the green vs red choices in that situation
Colouring page
4.Helping Hands Vs Hurting Hands
Physical Aggression
What are helping and hurting hands
Using hands to feel to “help others” vs “hurt others”
Poster Promise pledge
Sorting activity
5.How to Keep My Cool - (Emotional Regulation Strategies)
Anger Management tips for keeping your cool
Cooling down strategies
Write / draw your own strategies
6. Craft – Cool Down Ice-Cream
Cool down strategies craft poster
I can cool down colouring page
Keep it cool Ice-cream craft
Craft example and templates
The information contained within this package include specific support strategies to reduce behavioural concerns over time as well as supporting children’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. Children’s behaviour does not occur in isolation to the family system; hence a systemic family approach is vital for the development and progress of each individual child. Children change when the relationships around them change.
This package includes some general strategies that can be easily implemented within the family home. These strategies and recommendations include:
Understanding your children’s behaviour
Learnt Behaviour
Building Trust with your children
Stability and predictability within the home
Consistent limits and boundaries
Implementing Behavioural Consequences and Positive Reinforcement
Fostering Self-Esteem in your children – Why? And How?
Encourage Conversation through Active Listening and Empathy and Validation
Supporting your child’s mental health (environmental strategies)
Encourage a sense of independence and autonomy
Encourage Positive Behaviour everyday
Acceptance, Understanding and patience
WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS REOURCE:
This resource is a great handout for parents, carers, Disability Support Workers, Child Protection Workers and anyone who provides support for children who have experienced abuse, trauma and neglect.
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This resource is a great addition for exploring emotions and feelings with little learners in a fun, creative and engaging way. This craft activity encourages students to create and make their own feelings stick puppets. This resource includes 10 colour and 10 black and white puppet templates. There are two different versions included. One version includes the word label of each feeling together with the clip art image and the other version displays the clip art only.
Included is a Puppet Show Script Narrative that you can read and encourage your students to use the stick puppets while you are telling the story.
THE FEELINGS INCLUDED ARE:
Brave
Confused
Embarrassed
Angry
Exhausted
Frustrated
Happy
Excited
Sad
Scared
Shy
Peaceful
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This lesson has been specifically developed to support students with learning or intellectual difficulties to understand key aspects relating to:
SAFE SEX PRACTICES
A mini lesson exploring safe sex practices, as well as how to keep yourself and your partner safe from unwanted pregnancies and STD’s.
This lesson has been created to include key information in a easy to read manner with visuals to support information retention. Depending on the age, developmental level and key learning needs, Teachers, Parents, School Counsellors and other Allied Health Professionals should use their insight and judgement to determine whether the information contained in this lesson is suitable and appropriate for each individual student.
This lesson is built into a scaffold learning system with a total of 6 lessons. You can choose to use this lesson in isolation, however should you with to further build the knowledge around relationships and sexuality, feel free to check out the remainder of the lessons. The lessons include:
Personal Body Safety
Puberty
Special Relationships and Dating
Sex and Consent
Safe Sex Practices
Safety in the Community
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In this creative activity students are encouraged to identify their emotions, isolate why they feel that way and explore healthy and constructive ways to manage them is very important. Students are encouraged to create their own “Feelings Ferris Wheel” which includes the different feeling carriages.
Just like a Ferris Wheel, our feelings come and go. We won’t feel that way forever. There are no good or bad emotions, but there are good and bad ways of expressing (or acting on these emotions). Learning how to express emotions in acceptable and constructive ways is a separate skill that is built on the foundation of being able to understand emotions.
Within this mini-lesson and craft we will explore the following:
1.Emotional Literacy – understanding feelings and emotions
2.Isolate that feeling and attribute where it came from.
3.Identify your individual needs when you feel that way, including coping strategies.
In this craft activity, students are encouraged to explore the following emotions: sad, scared, surprised, grumpy, excited, embarrassed, happy, curious, confused, bored, angry, proud and scared.
This mini lesson includes the following:
FEELINGS FERRIS WHEEL
Poster
COPING SKILLS
Coping with Uncomfortable Feelings
Coping Skills Poster
My Coping Skills Worksheet
EXPLORING EMOTIONAL VOCABULARY
Reflective worksheets
FERRIS WHEEL CRAFT
-Templates and Directions
This lesson has been specifically developed to support students with learning or intellectual difficulties to understand key aspects relating to:
PUBERTY
A mini-lesson exploring the changes that happens to both boys and girls during puberty as well as answering frequently asked questions that students have during this great time of change.
This lesson has been created to include key information in a easy to read manner with visuals to support information retention. Depending on the age, developmental level and key learning needs, Teachers, Parents, School Counsellors and other Allied Health Professionals should use their insight and judgement to determine whether the information contained in this lesson is suitable and appropriate for each individual student.
This lesson is built into a scaffold learning system with a total of 6 lessons. You can choose to use this lesson in isolation, however should you with to further build the knowledge around relationships and sexuality, feel free to check out the remainder of the lessons. The lessons include:
Personal Body Safety
Puberty
Special Relationships and Dating
Sex and Consent
Safe Sex Practices
Safety in the Community
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This lesson has been specifically developed to support students with learning or intellectual difficulties to understand key aspects relating to:
SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS & DATING
This lesson explores what are special relationships and dating, the steps we take to date, how to keep yourself safe on dates and your rights and responsibilities.
This lesson has been created to include key information in a easy to read manner with visuals to support information retention. Depending on the age, developmental level and key learning needs, Teachers, Parents, School Counsellors and other Allied Health Professionals should use their insight and judgement to determine whether the information contained in this lesson is suitable and appropriate for each individual student.
This lesson is built into a scaffold learning system with a total of 6 lessons. You can choose to use this lesson in isolation, however should you with to further build the knowledge around relationships and sexuality, feel free to check out the remainder of the lessons. The lessons include:
Personal Body Safety
Puberty
Special Relationships and Dating
Sex and Consent
Safe Sex Practices
Safety in the Community
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This workbook has been developed to support children to manage their anxiety and worries, build self-confidence and create a positive thinking framework. This workbook is a must have for any teacher, parent and counsellor as it is jam packed with everything needed to tackle anxiety once and for all in a very trauma-informed and positive behavioural support approach.
This is a 60 page workbook includes:
“All about me” reflective activity
Why do you feel anxious – learning about your anxiety
What is anxiety? – how anxiety can impact you
What does it feel like to have anxiety – changes in body, thinking, behaviour
What causes anxiety?
What you can do when anxious?
How do feelings start? And activity.
Learning about fight/flight response.
Anxiety and your body activity – physical signs
Calm thinking patterns
Challenging your thoughts diary
Calm thinking thermometer
Body relaxation techniques and tips
Exercise benefits and weekly exercise plan
Body cues
Visualisation
Anxiety observation recording chart
Relaxation Game
Mix and Match (emotions and body warning signs)
Relaxation Activity Sheets
Individual and Group Activities
And much more…
This is a great resource for any individual who experiences anxiety to support them to understand why’s and hows around anxiety and give them the skills to “beat their worries”.
This lesson has been specifically developed to support students with learning or intellectual difficulties to understand key aspects relating to:
SEX AND CONSENT
This lesson explores what is sex, key things that you should know about sex and consent, how to keep you and your partner safe as well as giving and withdrawing consent.
This lesson has been created to include key information in a easy to read manner with visuals to support information retention. Depending on the age, developmental level and key learning needs, Teachers, Parents, School Counsellors and other Allied Health Professionals should use their insight and judgement to determine whether the information contained in this lesson is suitable and appropriate for each individual student.
This lesson is built into a scaffold learning system with a total of 6 lessons. You can choose to use this lesson in isolation, however should you with to further build the knowledge around relationships and sexuality, feel free to check out the remainder of the lessons. The lessons include:
Personal Body Safety
Puberty
Special Relationships and Dating
Sex and Consent
Safe Sex Practices
Safety in the Community
Feel free to check out the bundle to save on accessing all of the lessons.
Please ensure that you are fully aware of the content of the package prior to implementing with children to ensure material covered is suitable and family consent is provided in order to teach children education around these topics.
This workbook has been developed to support children to manage their anxiety and worries, build self-confidence and create a positive thinking framework. This workbook is a must have for any teacher, parent and counsellor as it is jam packed with everything needed to tackle anxiety once and for all in a very trauma-informed and positive behavioural support approach.
This is a 60 page workbook includes:
“All about me” reflective activity
Why do you feel anxious – learning about your anxiety
What is anxiety? – how anxiety can impact you
What does it feel like to have anxiety – changes in body, thinking, behaviour
What causes anxiety?
What you can do when anxious?
How do feelings start? And activity.
Learning about fight/flight response.
Anxiety and your body activity – physical signs
Calm thinking patterns
Challenging your thoughts diary
Calm thinking thermometer
Body relaxation techniques and tips
Exercise benefits and weekly exercise plan
Body cues
Visualisation
Anxiety observation recording chart
Relaxation Game
Mix and Match (emotions and body warning signs)
Relaxation Activity Sheets
Individual and Group Activities
And much more…
This is a great resource for any individual who experiences anxiety to support them to understand why’s and hows around anxiety and give them the skills to “beat their worries”.
The following mini-lesson and craft activity is great to help declutter your worries and help to clear your mind.
This lesson goes through the process of a brain dump which is great for clearing out the mental clutter that builds up when we have too many worries.
Students are walked through the process in a fun, creative and engaging way to help them manage their worries and clean out some mental space.
This mini-lesson explores:
What’s a Brain Dump?
The process – what to do
Brain Dump your worries worksheets
When worries pile up
Sorting my Worries (dump in the bin or Keep and take action)
Dump your worries – Craft Activity
Taking your worries away
Recycling your worries
Ruminating on your worries
3 other helpful tips
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