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HELPING HANDS – HAPPY KIDS 4 sessions to increase awareness of feelings and thoughts

HELPING HANDS – HAPPY KIDS 4 sessions to increase awareness of feelings and thoughts. Developed by Solfrid Raknes, Psychologist & Researcher. Helping Hands Happy Kids Session 1: Feelings. Session One Take Aways. What you will learn How to support yourself and others?

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HELPING HANDS – HAPPY KIDS 4 sessions to increase awareness of feelings and thoughts

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  1. HELPING HANDS – HAPPY KIDS4 sessionsto increase awareness of feelings and thoughts Developed by Solfrid Raknes, Psychologist & Researcher

  2. Helping Hands Happy KidsSession 1: Feelings

  3. Session One Take Aways What you will learn • How to support yourself and others? • Differ between situation, feelings and thoughts • The problem solving system “The Helping Hand” Why? • The purpose is to enhance your well being and develop your coping skills to deal with difficulties(difficult situations?) How? • See film, listen to music, read, write, speak and play!

  4. FEELINGS Lets Watch: https://youtu.be/SJOjpprbfeE • After the film: • Answer questions about what feelings drives you to do

  5. After the film, in pairs:

  6. Feelings motivate and give energy…towards something

  7. FRIENDLY INNER THOUGHTS Read p 9 - 12

  8. FEELINGS • What are the good sides of feelings? • Why is anger good? • Why is anxiety good?

  9. HIGH AWARENESS OF FEELINGS MEANS TO.... • Recognize feelings • Accept feelings • Express feelings clearly and properly • Relate empathetic and constructively to others' feelings

  10. SHOW....DON´T TELL • Guess each feeling and the degree of each feeling

  11. FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS Likes vs. No Likes Film: https://youtu.be/yMhQAKPVyMU Lets Discuss: • What did she think – and how do you know? • What did she feel - and how do you know?

  12. RED THOUGHTS • Red thoughts make you feel more angry, sad or afraid • Red thoughts make it harder for you to respond in the best way in the situation

  13. GREEN THOUGHTS Green thoughts=Helpful thoughts • Green thoughts make you feel safer and happier • Green thoughts promote care for yourself and others

  14. Partner Discussion Please share with your neighbor: • What feelings do you think are OK to show and talk about: • with friends? • with parents? • in this classroom? • Take turns telling each other about a time when somebody responded to your feelings in a nice way.

  15. A problem solving system – THE HELPING HAND (HH) – and focus on our coping with the situation

  16. Helping Hand Problem Solving System Nervous Afraid Eva is about to have a school presentation. • Everyone will laugh at me. • I will forget everything. • I can do this! • Just do it! It will get easier. Best Friend Teacher Classmates Be the first to present. Talk slowly and loudly.

  17. Helping Hands-Classroom Activity Kevin likes a girl, but dosn´t know if she likes him

  18. Coping with difficult situations • Make a list of situations that have been hard for you to deal with. • If there is something you are often afraid of – that´s not dangerous – choose that! (e.g. School presentations, talking with somebody, do something alone) • Choose ONE situation that you would like to focus on • That is important to you • A situation where the your actions can reduce the problem • A situation you feel comfortable sharing thoughts and feelings about in our health class(with the class)

  19. Session One Homework 1. Read pages 14 – 21 in the Helping Hands Happy Kids Manual 2. Make a reminder system where you get a green thought that can help you towards your goal every day, in the situation you chose to work on? • E.g. Message on the telephone, message from parents, friends, a reminder over the bed, in your bag, in your journal… 3. When you get the reminder – think about the specific green thought – let it sink in

  20. GREEN, SAFE AND HAPPY!

  21. Helping Hands-Happy KidsSession 2: Thoughts

  22. Session Two Overview What? • Connections between situations, feelings and thoughts • Red and Green thoughts Why? • Automatic reactions can create difficulties. • An overview can help you to think better and make smarter decisions. How? • Film, music, read, write, speak and play!

  23. YOUR HOMEWORK • Your homework was to 1. Read page 14 – 21 2. Make a reminder system where you get a green-thought every day, in the situation you chose to work on? • E.g. Message on the telephone, message from parents, friends, a reminder over the bed, in your bag, in your journal… 3. When you get the reminder – think about the specific green thought you would like to be reminded of • Tell me about your reminder systems

  24. Lets Watch! • https://youtu.be/7wKVtvuxEsM • After the film: • What did he think – and how do you know? • What did he feel - and how do you know?

  25. HELPING HAND HELPED CHILD DARE TO JUMP…NOW HE´S HAPPY AND PROUD – AND LOVES WATER! Scared, 9 They´ll laugh! It will hut!! Coward! Jump It´s brave to try I´ll get less scared every time I jump Teacher Jump

  26. THOUGHTS Read page 22 - 25

  27. RED THOUGHTS • Red thoughts make you feel angry, sad or afraid • Red thoughts make it harder for you to respond the best way in the situation

  28. GREEN THOUGHTS Green Thoughts= Helpful Thoughts • Make you feel safer and happier • Promote care for yourself and others

  29. Situation – describe the facts as clearly as possible The boys see… • A sleeping dog • An animal • Something that scares them

  30. Thoughts • What is the boy in the red shirt thinking? • What is the boy in the green shirt thinking?

  31. FEELINGS • What feelings do the boys show?

  32. HOW CAN WE EXPLAIN THESE BOYS DIFFERENT REACTIONS based on what we know? • The situation? • Their thoughts?

  33. THE HELPING HAND – FOR PROBLEM SOLVING • What ́s up?One situation - use concrete details and be precise • Feelings: Your feelings, what you notice in your body, and the degrees of your feelings • Red thoughts: Thoughts that strengthen difficult feelings • Green thought: What is more helpful to think? • What can I do?: What you can do to help yourself feel better … Trust your green thoughts! • Support: Who can support me and how?

  34. GROUPWORKComplete onefield in the hand (one finger), then send forward to next student • Same situation – various reactions • Complete the Helping Hand in a way that follows the logic in the hand you´re working with Eva is about to have a school presentation Eva skal holde presentasjon i klassen

  35. GROUPWORKRead through some of the Helping Hands from the Class • Clear logic between situation, feelings and thoughts? • Green thoughts you would find useful too, given that you had these feelings and red thoughts? Other suggestions? Eva is about to have a school presentation Eva skal holde presentasjon i klassen

  36. DISCOVER YOUR RED THOUGHTS! • Read pages 27 - 28

  37. FIGHTING THE RED THOUGHTS • Lets start with an experiment: • Try NOT to think about RED RABBITS • Close your eyes • What happens? • Discussion: What can you learn from this?

  38. CLASS GAME • GREEN TEAM AGAINST • RED TEAM

  39. ACCEPT RED THOUGHTS WILL COME…AND GO • Accept all kinds of thoughts • Thoughts are not dangerous • You don´t have to believe in all red thoughts! • Pushing away thoughts takes energy and work. • Choose to listen to your green thoughts.

  40. HOMEWORK • Complete a Helping Hand for a situation you find challenging • Teach one of your parent(s), siblings or friends about the helping hand, complete a helping hand together with him/her.

  41. GREEN, SAFE AND HAPPY!

  42. Helping Hands-Happy KidsSession 3: COPING

  43. Session Three: Overview What? • Coping strategies Why? • Automatic reactions can create difficulties. • An overview can help you to think better and make smarter decisions. How? See film, listen to music, read, write, jump, speak and play!

  44. DEALING WITH FAILURES • https://youtu.be/T61RVdxYNDg

  45. COMPLETE HIS HELPING HAND • Complete quickly his helping hand

  46. LETS TRY AN EXPERIMENT • Write: How happy are you right now? Use a scale from 0 – 10, where 0 is bad and 10 is very good, 5 is neutral • Complete the task that the teacher gives you. • Write again: How happy are you now? Same scale • Complete the task that the teacher gives you. • Write again: How happy are you now? Same scale

  47. From self critic to self compassionQuestions like ”What´s wrong with me?” and ”Why me?”…can become a bad habit

  48. Independent Writing • Complete a Helping Hand where the trigger situation makes you • Stressed • Worried • Or Angry

  49. Partner Share • Show your partner your completed HHs • Help each other to feel it OK to share by showing acceptance and understanding • Do you have suggestions for other/stronger green thoughts and things to do your pair mate could use? Share!

  50. READ • Read p 35

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