This workbook contains various activities designed to explore an individual’s self compassion and self-esteem. These worksheets and activities can be used as a foundation for discussion and reflection. Self Compassion is about accepting yourself no matter what happens. For example, even if I am feeling insecure, I completely accept myself as who I am. Self Compassion means being understanding and gentle with ourselves when we struggle, fail, suffer or even feel inadequate instead of criticising yourself. Self Compassion means taking a balanced approach to any negative feelings or experiences that we encounter. Instead of becoming overwhelmed, exaggerate or even suppress our emotions and experiences, self compassion means accepting ourselves – even the parts that are vulnerable and imperfect. Just remember…self esteem is not about learning to love everything about ourselves…it’s about loving ourselves even though there are things that we do not like. If we see self esteem as a destination of perfect self acceptance it will always seem too far away.

This resource includes 75 Question Cards for little learners to prepare them for school. Simple put each of the cards in a Jar and utilize them as you wish! These are colourful and engaging cards and are versatile! Simply laminate, cut and you can use this resource over and over for years to come! 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 story is to help students understand different voice volumes and where they are appropriate to use in different settings and environments. Using the analogy of car speeds, this story is relatable, easy to read and understand and visually supported. This social story also includes two posters which help to cement their learning and understanding. So get in the drivers seat and take control of your voice volume! 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 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, 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 file folder is a great concrete way for students to explore good and bad manners. Students are encouraged to match and sort the various manner cards and reflect on whether they are good,/bad, positive/negative or helpful/unhelpful manners. This resource includes the following: About this Resource Reflection time Title Pages for the File Folder Answer Keys Sorting Templates Behaviour Choice Cards in Colour Black and White Choices Cards for Colouring Version Create your own Choices Template Back Cover Option – “I have great manners” pledge and colouring poster. 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 Good and Bad Manners and use the sorting cards to encourage students to differentiate and reflect on the various choices.

This Occupational Therapy Tip Sheet can be printed double sided and perfectly summarizes the following: What are Find Motor Skills and why are they important? Explains and provides strategies for the following: Shoulder Girdle Stability Hand strength Fine Pincer Grasp Manipulation Skills Bilateral Hand Use This is a great tip sheet for parents, carers and teachers to help them understand fine motor skills and give them some easy to implement strategies for develop and strengthen their skills. 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 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!

9 Pages worth of key tips and strategies to reduce the intensity of challenging behaviours and prevent the behaviours from escalating. This is a great resource for teachers, clinicians, therapists and allied health staff in developing Behaviour Support Plans and/or other plans to support the reduction of challenging behaviour. Document includes key strategies for how to respond to challenging behaviours. This package includes information around: What are reactive strategies (including information about antecedent control) How to reduce risks (personal risks, environmental factors and individual risks) Personal space and body posture considerations Interactional guidelines (before and during behaviours) How to neutralise the situation Meeting needs or refocusing their attention Key Points to remember… Great for teachers and parents!

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. The objectives of this workbook are to facilitate dialogue which is important during the healing process. This resource additionally focuses on the development of coping strategies which is a key component for any type of therapeutic work. The more coping skills and individual possesses, the better they will be able to handle emotional distress that comes with the loss of a loved one. The following resource explores and includes the following: -What is Grief? -“Tears” of Grief Model -5 Stages of Grief -Exploring Emotions (including Concurrent Emotions) -Exploring Physical Symptoms of stress (impact on body) -Coping Strategies -Development of a “Staying Healthy Plan” (mental and physical strategies) -Creative Therapy activities, worksheets, reflective questions and colouring

Creative Intervention to support anxious children to let go of their worries with the help of their worry tree. This project is a creative way for children to identify and acknowledge their anxieties. Sometimes we all carry around worries. They might be about school, home, friendships or even changes in our life. This activity encourages children to think about their worries and put them on their own worry tree. They can write down all of their worries and put them on the tree so that they don’t need to carry these worries around with them anymore. When the worries have been placed on the tree, it opens up discussion around strategies and ways that they can cope with that worry. This resource includes: What is a Worry Tree My Worries (What do I want to talk about) worksheet When I feel Worried Brainstorm Coping Skills Poster Rainbow Breathing Breathing & Concentration Exercise Mindful Senses Create your own Worry Tree Template (tree, leaves, butterflies, birds) Extra Notes Page WHAT TO DO If you have a worry all you have to do is to write your worry on a leaf. Use some glue and glue your worry on the tree. Your tree will keep it safe until you have explored your worry with someone and thought of some coping strategies. As time goes by, you can use the butterflies and birds to take the worries away!

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!

Creative Intervention to support anxious children to let go of their worries with the help of their worry tree. This project is a creative way for children to identify and acknowledge their anxieties. Sometimes we all carry around worries. They might be about school, home, friendships or even changes in our life. This activity encourages children to think about their worries and put them on their own worry tree. They can write down all of their worries and put them on the tree so that they don’t need to carry these worries around with them anymore. When the worries have been placed on the tree, it opens up discussion around strategies and ways that they can cope with that worry. This resource includes: What is a Worry Tree My Worries (What do I want to talk about) worksheet When I feel Worried Brainstorm Coping Skills Poster Rainbow Breathing Breathing & Concentration Exercise Mindful Senses Create your own Worry Tree Template (tree, leaves, butterflies, birds) Extra Notes Page WHAT TO DO If you have a worry all you have to do is to write your worry on a leaf. Use some glue and glue your worry on the tree. Your tree will keep it safe until you have explored your worry with someone and thought of some coping strategies. As time goes by, you can use the butterflies and birds to take the worries away!

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. 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 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 workbook has been designed for teenagers and adults to explore, define and nurture themselves through self-care. This resource is motivating, inspirational and grounding. This resource gives teenagers and adults a great foundation in which to explore where they currently are in life, where they want to go hopes/desires/dreams) as well as equip them with the skills, knowledge and insight so that they are equipped with the right self-care tools and supports to deal with anything life throws at them. This workbook explores the following: What is Self-Care? Seven Pillars of Self-Care (exploring each one individually and if any of our pillars in need of repair) Strongest Qualities and Traits Explore individual core sense of self (intellectually, spiritually, physically and emotionally) What’s important for them – dreams, desires, goals. Needs and wants Personal Goal Review Planning your success Exploring barriers and overcoming obstacles Exploring defining moments Guided reflection questions Tips for keeping a routine Morning Headstart checklist example (and developing your own morning routine which nourishes your body, mind and soul) Tips for a healthy bedtime routine. Negative and Positive Thinking Patterns Daily Self-Reflection Template Inspirational Quotes, Analogies, Worksheets and more.

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

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 “Anger Management Strategy Ingredients” list and tick what anger management strategy they could or would 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 anger management 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 anger management smoothie. This heightens the learning outcomes and students become more likely to explore and employ these anger management strategies within their everyday life. NOTE – There is a COMPLETED example page so students can see this resource in action!