Many today suffer with a damaged sense of self. Some individuals have such profound self-esteem deficits that they have internalized 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 has been developed to help students to develop the tools to help individuals focus on their strengths and abilities, promote feelings of self-worth, encourage a more optimistic attitude and install a hope for their future. This 38 page workbook addresses important issues that are relevant in relation to increasing self-esteem, understanding feelings, bullying and anger management. This workbook is designed so that the child has an opportunity to reflect on who they are, including to gain further insights into self-esteem, feelings, bullying and anger management. Some activities are also whole-class activities to encourage self-esteem and empowerment, encouraging all children to isolate and express the things that they like and admire in the others in a very fun way.

These cards are a fun way for teenagers to self reflect on the more deeper and meaningful aspects to life from thoughts, feelings, self-care, emotions, friendships, relationships, goals, priorities. They can be powerful and support the student to explore more than just the skin deep conversations that are generally generated. If you are looking for shallow conversation starters…than these are not for you! This is a set of 52 cards and their implementation is as versatile as your imagination. They can be utilized individually, pairs, group or even as a whole class approach. My students love them! They express that these help them to really think about who they are, what they want and what is important to and for them. These cards help develop a growth mindset mentality as opposed to a fixed mindset. They also support students so develop understanding, empathy and compassion for themselves and others.

This File Folder is a great concrete way for students to explore Helpful and Unhelpful Coping Skills. Students are encouraged to match and sort the various Coping Skills and reflect on whether they are Helpful or Unhelpful. This resource is versatile and can be used as a quick reference guide, a sort and match activity lesson, within individual or small group sessions or even as a supplement to your SEL lessons! Laminate and glue this resource to a file folder for repeated use and longevity. You will need scissors, glue and a file folder. Alternatively, you can assemble this resource using hook and look adhesive dots. Simply apply these to the page templates of Helpful and Unhelpful Coping Skills and use the sorting cards to encourage students to differentiate and reflect on the various skills. This resource includes the following: About this Resource Reflection time Title Pages for the File Folder Answer Keys Sorting Templates Coping Skill Cards in Colour Black and White Coping Skill Cards for Colouring Version Create your own Choices Template Back Cover Option – “I have Helpful Coping Skills” poster and Colouring page.

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!

This resource is great for preschoolers, kindergarten, children with autism and special needs. Learning to be able to isolate, distinguish and learn categories are vital for language development and executive functioning. Simply cut out the visual cards and categorising buckets and away you go! There is a lot of versatility in utilizing this activity so you are only limited by your imagination. Should using the whole set be overwhelming, you can start off small by starting with only a couple of categories and then work on building more categories into the activity over time. This activity can be completed individually, in small or whole group settings. There are over 84 visuals included which can be categories into various categories including: body parts school family food weather chores animals community helpers shapes home and much more… "I have used this resource multiple times both as a Speech Therapist and Special Needs Teacher and it has been invaluable in supporting language development, sentence building and learning fundamentals including category building. Highly recommend. This resource will be in my toolbox for years to come!" Please check out some of our BEST SELLERS! Remember – Please follow our STORE! Thank you!

This managing my emotions hands-on and fun mini-lesson helps students to develop emotional literacy by learning to identify their emotions, isolate why they feel that way and learn healthy and constructive ways to manage them. This mini-lesson includes the following: POSTERS -Emotions Wheel - Coloured Visual Clipart Poster -Emotions Wheel - Coloured Written Word Poster -Emotions Wheel - Black and White Colouring Page EMOTIONS WHEEL OVERLAY -Template to create your own Emotions Wheel -Photo Example of completed wheel WORKSHEETS -Worksheets to support students to become more aware of their own emotions, potential triggers as well as building emotional literacy. COPING SKILLS -Exploring uncomfortable emotions -Coping Skills Poster -Create your own Coping Skills Poster

This is a fun, engaging, creative and non-threatening intervention which is great for students to explore self-esteem. In particular, self-confidence, identify, feeling of belonging and feeling of competence. 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 self-compassion and consideration of feelings and actions as they resonate with each scenario. 2.The next step is for the students to explore the “Self-Esteem Ingredients” list and tick what self-esteem 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 20 visuals for already developed self-esteem and confidence 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-esteem 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!

This is a fun, engaging and creative craft activity lesson which encourages a positive growth mindset for children to grow in self-confidence and self-esteem. All About Snowflakes (including fun facts) Self-Esteem Questionnaire Self-Esteem Sentence Starters My Self-Esteem Snowflakes -Example -Blank Template (including various sizes) Snowflake Qualities and Traits -Example -Blank Templates Whole Class Activity – Snowflake Garland THIS MINI LESSON IS A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COUNSELING OR SEL LESSONS! GREAT FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP WORK. Check out some of our best sellers below! Don’t forget to follow our store! STORE CREDITS - Did you know…? • Each time you give feedback on a product, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback to TpT Sellers, just like feedback to students, is a valuable tool to aid improvement of future products. Go to your “My Purchases” page to view past downloads, and provide a rating and comment. • You can be the first to know about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Look for the green star next to the TpT store logo and click it to become a follower and receive email updates about the store.

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.” Check out some of our best sellers below! Don’t forget to follow our store!

This lesson helps students personify and project their grief onto their own monster that they create with the therapeutic aim to reflect and gain insight. This intervention asks students to create a representation of grief and give it a name. By externalizing grief, it becomes something that they can deal with and manage. It is no longer an abstract idea that they have no control over. It becomes manageable. Everyone grieves differently and experiences different emotional reactions. Some may not want to discuss while others may want to share memories of their loved one. Therefore, it is important to allow every individual to express themselves as much as they feel comfortable doing so. This activity supports the individual to do this. This therapeutic intervention requires the therapist to be very curious and unconditionally accepting of the Grief Monster that the student creates and imagines. Remember the vital role of empathy and at the end of the intervention sincerely thank the student for sharing what their grief looks like as a monster to support integration. Further discussion ideas for integration might include exploration of the themes and trends that arise during this intervention. This resource includes: Therapist Notes We are sorry for your loss… What is grief? How does your body feel today? What feeds your grief? Getting to know your Grief Monster? Safe Place for your Grief Monster What it looks like? Monster Diaries Coping Strategies – Ways to care for your Grief Monster My Helping Hand Monster feelings chart Poster Post Session Reflective questions Building your own Grief Monster Check out some of our best sellers below! Don’t forget to follow our store! STORE CREDITS - Did you know…? • Each time you give feedback on a product, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback to TpT Sellers, just like feedback to students, is a valuable tool to aid improvement of future products. Go to your “My Purchases” page to view past downloads, and provide a rating and comment. • You can be the first to know about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Look for the green star next to the TpT store logo and click it to become a follower and receive email updates about the store.

This Mini-Lesson explores positive self talk which is the key to building self esteem… Persistent low self-esteem can impact an individual’s life in many ways. The constant exposure to negative feelings can trigger depression, anger, guilt, shame, anxiety or sadness. These emotions can feel overwhelming at times. One way that can really help is to change the negative self-talk into positive self-talk. This in turns help to build self-esteem. By improving self-esteem, the student is better able to emotionally regulate which serves to improve many areas of their lives. This mini-lesson serves to change the negative self-talk scripts that students often gravitate towards and move to a more positive and constructive self-talk script. The example of a spider and its web is used. The more you tell yourself NEGATIVE self-talk, the more it will stick. The more you tell yourself positive self-talk, the more it will stick. Just like a spider catching food in it’s web. Once it’s caught…it’s hard to get out. So, the students are empowered to make a choice - to have either positive or negative self talk stuck in their web! This resource includes many self-talk affirmations and scripts that the students can read and include on their own “self-esteem” spider web. They can choose which ones they want to apply to them. Included are a couple of reflective exercise activity sheets to help students to reflect and gain insight into what is happening for them. This is a great resource for students who would like to explore self-talk and self-esteem! Please check out some of our BEST SELLERS! Remember – Please follow our STORE! Thank you STORE CREDITS - Did you know…? • Each time you give feedback on a product, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback to TpT Sellers, just like feedback to students, is a valuable tool to aid improvement of future products. Go to your “My Purchases” page to view past downloads, and provide a rating and comment. • You can be the first to know about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Look for the green star next to the TpT store logo and click it to become a follower and receive email updates about the store.

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. STORE CREDITS - Did you know…? • Each time you give feedback on a product, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback to TpT Sellers, just like feedback to students, is a valuable tool to aid improvement of future products. Go to your “My Purchases” page to view past downloads, and provide a rating and comment. • You can be the first to know about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Look for the green star next to the TpT store logo and click it to become a follower and receive email updates about the store.

This workbook includes 10 Comprehension Worksheets to help further your students understanding of appropriate social skills. Each page includes a mini social story narrative about that social skill and how it can be implemented in day to day life. On each page there are questions with three multiple choice answers to help support the student to retain the knowledge. The themes of each page are targeting the following social skills: Greeting Someone Sharing Interrupting Following Directions Waiting for my turn to talk Speaking so everyone can listen Looking at others when talking Saying “Thank you” Helping Others Asking to join in and play Each page can be used as a stand alone worksheet or as a companion and supplement to your lesson. Please check out some of our BEST SELLERS! Remember – Please follow our STORE! Thank you. STORE CREDITS - Did you know…? • Each time you give feedback on a product, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback to TpT Sellers, just like feedback to students, is a valuable tool to aid improvement of future products. Go to your “My Purchases” page to view past downloads, and provide a rating and comment. • You can be the first to know about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Look for the green star next to the TpT store logo and click it to become a follower and receive email updates about the store.

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 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.

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 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 is a fun intervention for individual or groups. Encourage the student to roll the die and answer the corresponding question to the number they rolled. If they roll the die and get the same number as previously and have already answered that question, you can either choose to roll again or pass it to the next person. There are numerous versions for young and old to reflect on. There are 12 different versions included which are: Grief and Loss Growth Mindset Career Exploration Would you rather? Ice breakers How Questions Checking In Self-Care Depression Mental Health Anxiety Feelings & Emotions A blank die template has been included which can be printed and glued together should you not have access to one. STORE CREDITS - Did you know…? • Each time you give feedback on a product, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback to TpT Sellers, just like feedback to students, is a valuable tool to aid improvement of future products. Go to your “My Purchases” page to view past downloads, and provide a rating and comment. • You can be the first to know about new discounts, freebies and product launches. Look for the green star next to the TpT store logo and click it to become a follower and receive email updates about the store.

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 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 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 resource includes over 30 pages of “What is it?” question sheets which include 3 clues and 4 possible answers represented by visuals.