Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- Part One -- Why this book now? -- How to use this book -- Resources and materials -- Why Creative Art and Drama activities? -- The value of metaphor -- What happens in children's brains -- Helping the child manage Big Feelings -- Stages of emotional development -- Emotional development and abstract fear -- Externalising and witnessing -- The importance of ritual -- Part Two -- The Big Feelings List -- Assessment Activities -- The Magic Thumb -- The Stepping Game
The Big Feelings/Happiness Box -- Techniques used -- Anger -- Candle Breathing -- Saucepan Breathing -- Balloon Breathing -- Robot/Doll Mime -- The Volcano Mime -- Volcano Discussion -- Jack-in-the-Box Mime -- The Angry Monster Drawing -- All About Me Book -- Worry -- Golden String Breathing -- Belly Breathing -- The Warrior Pose -- The Lion Pose -- The Tree Pose -- Worry Doll/Puppet -- The Safe Place Drawing/Collage -- Go Worry Rhyme -- The Bad Dream Storyboard -- The Pink and Blue Room Discussion -- Part Three -- Ideas for discussion -- Ideas for enactment -- Puppets -- Material -- Models
Appendix -- Freeze Frames -- Speaking from Role -- De-roling -- References
Summary
A vital resource, this guide provides practical strategies to address children's anxieties about real and hidden issues. Intended for use with the accompanying storybook, this guide provides the theory behind and offers practical solutions to a variety of big feelings and hidden fears
