Activity 2: Emotional awareness (10 min)

Step 1:

Talk the learners through the RULER approach and the concept of a mood index. These are helpful strategies for recognising emotions in ourselves and others in order to find ways to regulate or control strong emotions.

Use the ‘Emotional Awareness’ presentation.

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Step 2:

Hand out the mood index and Emotion RULER handouts, or ask learners to copy them down and fill them out, focusing on a time today when they felt an intense emotion.