Emotional Literacy
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Why Emotions?
Why Emotions?
Objective- Identify and have access to a toolbox of emotions in order to initiate appropriate coping strategies.
Why do emotions matter?
Why do emotions matter?
Language is our portal to meaning-making, connection, healing, learning, and self-awareness. Having access to the right words can open up entire universes. When we don’t have the language to talk about what we’re experiencing, our ability to make sense of what’s happening and share it with others is severely limited. Without accurate language, we struggle to get the help we need, we don’t always regulate or manage our emotions and experiences in a way that allows us to move through them productively, and our self-awareness is diminished. Language shows us that naming an experience doesn’t give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding and meaning.
Our ability to accurately recognize and label emotions is often referred to as emotional granularity. In the words of Harvard psychologist Susan David, “Learning to label emotions with a more nuanced vocabulary can be absolutely transformative.”
-Brene Brown
Emotions are a large part of who you are. They affect whether you pay attention or are distracted, if you remember or forget. They influence whether you make good decisions or bad ones, stick with your choices or change your mind. How you feel also impacts your physical health and your ability to build and maintain relationships. We all need skills to recognize and understand our emotions, label and express them, and regulate them to achieve optimum well-being and success at home, school, and in the workplace.
-Character Lab
Research
Research
AtlasoftheHeartIndexofResearchCitations.pdfEssential Questions
How can you become better at identifying your own emotions?
Why is it important to understand what you are feeling?
Can you use different coping strategies for different emotions?
Create an analogy that relates emotions to thinking.
Character-Lab-Playbook-Lesson-Emotional-Intelligence.pdfVideo Library
Video Library
The Science of emotions
What are emotions?
Primary
Feelings and Emotions Song
Little Spot of Feelings- Read Aloud
Inside out: Identifying Emotions
Emotions in Animals
Pixar emotions
Alfred & Shadow- Short story about emotions
Virtual Library
Virtual Library
One day, Color Monster wakes up feeling very confused. His emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad, and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through color. As this adorable monster learns to sort and define his mixed up emotions, he gains self-awareness and peace as a result.
Jim the chimpanzee is in a terrible mood for no good reason. His friends can't understand it--how can he be in a bad mood when it's SUCH a beautiful day? They have lots of suggestions for how to make him feel better. But Jim can't take all the advice...and has a BIT of a meltdown. Could it be that he just needs a day to feel grumpy?
The main character has feelings so big that they glow from his cheeks, spill out of his eyes, and jump up and down on his chest. When he hears a joke, he bursts with joy. When a loud truck drives by, he cries. When his loved ones are having a hard day, he feels their emotions as if they were his own.
The boy tries to cope by stuffing down his feelings, but with a little help and artistic inspiration, the boy realizes his feelings are something to be celebrated.
Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Blue crayon needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. Black crayon wants to be used for more than just outlining. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best?
How are you feeling today? This fun, friendly and reassuring introduction to feelings is designed to help young children recognize, understand and name how they're feeling and learn to talk about and manage their emotions in helpful ways.
Having a pet dragon is very fun.
But what do you do if he gets angry or upset? What do you do when your dragon lost his cool and wants to burn everything to the ground?
In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 87 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.
Resource List
Resource List
Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week
LK_Name_the_Emotion_Module_3.pdfLearn Kind Name the Emotion
Learn Kind Name the Emotion
Other Sites
Other Sites
RULER
RULER
Emotions Matter.
Emotions Matter.
Emotions drive learning, decision-making, creativity, relationships, and health. The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence conducts research and teaches people of all ages how to develop their emotional intelligence.
Emotions as a path to supporting Trauma
Emotions as a path to supporting Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk MD spends his career studying how children and adults adapt to traumatic experiences, and has translated emerging findings from neuroscience and attachment research to develop and study a range of treatments for traumatic stress in children and adults.
Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart
Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart
If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us.
Character Lab- Emotional Intelligence Playbook
Character Lab- Emotional Intelligence Playbook
Who We Are
Who We Are
Character Lab is a nonprofit organization that connects researchers with educators to create greater knowledge about the conditions that lead to social, emotional, academic, and physical well-being for young people throughout the country.
Our History
Our History
Character Lab was founded in 2013 by a scientist and two educators: Angela Duckworth, author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance and Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Dave Levin, co-founder of KIPP public charter schools; and Dominic Randolph, Head of School at Riverdale Country School.
Emotions Quotes
Emotions Quotes
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
Helen Keller
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde
“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
John Lennon
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
Sigmund Freud
“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
Mark Twain
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
Ansel Adams
Emotions Prompts for Writing
Emotions Prompts for Writing
Have you ever been unable to explain an emotion you are feeling? Explain
How can you start to pay attention to the difference between different emotions and how they affect you?
Pick an emotion other than happy, mad, sad, or angry. Describe a situation when someone may feel that emotion. What does it look like?
Is it okay to feel different emotions? Why or why not?
Create a dialogue with two characters real or fiction. Express how they are feeling through speech bubbles.
How are empathy and sympathy different?
What are three different ways you can tell how someone may be feeling?
-gestures
-words
-tone
How can tone and body language give signs to how someone is feeling?
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