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Emotional Education

Polish Olympians’ Kindergarten no. 240

Warsaw, Poland

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EMOTIONAL EDUCATION The term emotional education should be understood as

the ability to understand oneself and one’s own feelings, to direct and control them, and as the ability of self-motivation, empathy and social skills.

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SELF-AWARENESS

• Ability to recognize own feelings, knowledge about own feelings, values, preferences, abilities.

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SELF-ASSESSMENT

• Sense of own value, self-confidence, awareness of own abilities and limits; ability to eperience one’s own self without the judgement of others

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SELF-CONTROL

• Ability to react consciously to external stimuli and control own emotional states; ability to cope with stress

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EMPATHY

• Being aware of emotions, needs and values of others that is understanding them and being sensitive to their feelings; helpful and supportive attitude towards other people and animals

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ASSERTIVENESS

• Open expression of feelings, attitudes and values so that they do not violate the rights of others; ability to defend own rights in different situations without violating others’ rights to self-defence

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CONFLICT SOLVING

• Ability to ease conflicts, solve problems, take decisions together

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COOPERATION

• Ability to cooperate with others, work in a group and carry out tasks in a group

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MOTIVATION

• Own involvement, aspiring to success, initiative and optimism

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ADAPTATIONAL ABILITIES

• Ability to control emotions, cope in the changing environment, cope with difficulties, flexibility to adjust to changes

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DILIGENCE

• Ability to take responsibility for tasks and their realization; ability to take pleasure from responsibilities.

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PROGRAMME „ZIPPY’S FRIENDS”

• Zippy's Friends is a programme that promotes the mental health and emotional wellbeing of young children in many different countries and cultures.

• The fundamental concept behind the programme is very simple - if we can teach young children how to cope with difficulties, they should be better able to handle problems and crises in adolescence and adult life.

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• Zippy's Friends is a programme for schools and kindergartens. It usually runs for 24 weeks, with one 45-minute session each week.

• The programme is built around a set of six stories. Zippy is a stick insect and his friends are a group of young children, and the stories show them confronting issues that are familiar to young children.

• Each story is illustrated by brightly coloured pictures.

• Each session begins with the teacher reading part of the story, and then the children take part in activities such as drawing, discussing and playing games. The aim of these activities is to help the children to explore and understand their feelings and behaviour.

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Module 1: • Feelings

Goal: To improve children’s abilities to recognise difficult feelings and to identify coping strategies to deal with those feelingsSession 1: Feeling sad – feeling happySession 2: Feeling angry or annoyedSession 3: Feeling jealousSession 4: Feeling nervous

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Module 2:

CommunicationGoal: To improve children’s abilities to communicate their feelings.Session 1: Improving communication.Session 2: Listening.Session 3: Who can help us?Session 4: Saying what you want to say.

• Module 3:

Making and breaking relationshipsGoal: To improve children’s abilities to make friends and to cope with rejection and loneliness.Session 1: How to keep a friend?Session 2: Dealing with loneliness and rejection.Session 3: How to resolve conflicts with friends?Session 4: How to make friends?

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• Module 4:

Conflict resolutionGoal: To improve children’s abilities to resolve conflicts.Session 1: How to recognise good solutions?Session 2: Bullying.Session 3: Solving problems.Session 4: Helping others to resolve conflicts.

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Dealing with change and lossGoal: To improve children’s abilities to cope with change and loss.Session 1: Change and loss are part of life.Session 2: Coping with death.Session 3: Visit to a graveyard.Session 4: Learning from change and loss.

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• Module 6:

We copeGoal: To improve children’s abilities to use a variety of coping strategies.Session 1: Different ways to cope.Session 2: How to help others?Session 3: Adapting to new situations.Session 4: Celebrating together.

• www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk.

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• Teddy Emo is a teddybear which comes from a distant world- The Magical World of Emotions, which is behind seven high mountains and seven long rivers. It always comes with two fairies to meet the children.

• In each session it greets the children and says goodbye, always shares interesting stories from its life and asks the children if they have had similar experiences.

MAGICAL WORLD OF EMOTIONS

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When the meetings come to an end, the fairies say goodbye but teddy Emo stays with the children forever so that they can always give it a hug.

Teddy talks about situations which brought about different feelings in it - it calls them and says how it handles them. Children react to Emo very enthusiastically, tell it about their experiences and also guess its emotions and advise how to cope with them.

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WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS „Understanding Children’s World of

Emotions”

• The aim of the workshop is to support the activities which develop emotional intelligence and social maturity in children.

• Parents learn how to express emotions effectively, a parent-child communication model by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.

• The workshop also supports parents in the process of handling violent and often uncontrollable emotions in their children.

• Together we look for answers to questions:• How to channel child’s emotions?• How to react to child’s emotions?• How to handle them but not suppress?• How to use the language of children?