We wanted to achieve our objective by introducing easy workable material to children, educators and parents. Our material is developed to consist of three parts: 1. The “Colors of Life Journal” for children to handwrite about their emotions through thoroughly developed exercises and activities based on colors. 2. The “Wrapped in Colors Meditation Story Book” based on COLORS and EMOTIONS for children, offering mindful meditative stories, activities, food recipes, affirmations, exercise, use nature etc. 3. “Emotional Colorful Folder” for teachers and parents on how to use our above material with the children. Our “Colors of Life Journal” project will provide children with knowledge and tools to acquire emotional skills, to build resilience and self-regulation that will enable them to face adversity with ease and growth mindset. The better they know themselves the better they will be able to respond to the world around them. The target audience was three-fold; we are looking to engage children/students as well as teachers/educators and parents.
Our main objective is to create hands on, easy to use material for social and emotional learning in schools. Many children carry social and emotional load which is not favorable for their learning nor their overall wellbeing. Some of the challenges they face that will influence their academic advancement and happiness are: social inequality, bullying, family conflict, academic stress, technology addiction, social isolation and loneliness. Social and emotional learning that endows them with tools and strategies to harness self-understanding, self-regulation and self-management has proven to improve their relationships, decision making, attention and focus allowing them to thrive in their inner and outer world. Using emotional journaling we hope to make this change happen. Through colors and emotional journaling. The needs we aim at with our Erasmus+ project: 1. Reduce emotional distress and improve emotional agility in children 2. For each child to find their own tools for their self-regulation of emotions 3. Abilities to self-regulate emotions will create a better social environment and empathy.