1. Emotional Education
Polish Olympians’ Kindergarten no. 240
Warsaw, Poland
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2. EMOTIONAL EDUCATION
The term emotional education should be understood as
the ability to understand oneself and one’s own
feelings, to direct and control them, and as the ability of
self-motivation, empathy and social skills.
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3. SELF-AWARENESS
• Ability to recognize own feelings, knowledge about own
feelings, values, preferences, abilities.
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4. SELF-ASSESSMENT
• Sense of own value, self-confidence, awareness of own
abilities and limits; ability to eperience one’s own self
without the judgement of others
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5. SELF-CONTROL
• Ability to react consciously to external stimuli and control
own emotional states; ability to cope with stress
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6. EMPATHY
• Being aware of emotions, needs and values of others
that is understanding them and being sensitive to their
feelings; helpful and supportive attitude towards other
people and animals
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7. ASSERTIVENESS
• Open expression of feelings, attitudes and values so
that they do not violate the rights of others; ability to
defend own rights in different situations without violating
others’ rights to self-defence
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8. CONFLICT SOLVING
• Ability to ease conflicts, solve problems, take decisions
together
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9. COOPERATION
• Ability to cooperate with others, work in a group and
carry out tasks in a group
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10. MOTIVATION
• Own involvement, aspiring to success, initiative and
optimism
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11. ADAPTATIONAL ABILITIES
• Ability to control emotions, cope in the changing
environment, cope with difficulties, flexibility to adjust to
changes
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12. DILIGENCE
• Ability to take responsibility for tasks and their
realization; ability to take pleasure from responsibilities.
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13. PROGRAMME „ZIPPY’S
FRIENDS”
• Zippy's Friends is a
programme that promotes the
mental health and emotional
wellbeing of young children in
many different countries and
cultures.
• The fundamental concept
behind the programme is very
simple - if we can teach young
children how to cope with
difficulties, they should be
better able to handle problems
and crises in adolescence and
adult life.
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14. • Zippy's Friends is a
programme for schools and
kindergartens. It usually runs
for 24 weeks, with one 45-
minute session each week.
• The programme is built around
a set of six stories. Zippy is a
stick insect and his friends are
a group of young children, and
the stories show them
confronting issues that are
familiar to young children.
• Each story is illustrated by
brightly coloured pictures.
• Each session begins with the
teacher reading part of the
story, and then the children
take part in activities such as
drawing, discussing and
playing games. The aim of
these activities is to help the
children to explore and
understand their feelings and
behaviour.
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15. Module 1:
• Feelings
Goal: To improve children’s abilities to
recognise difficult feelings and to
identify coping strategies to deal with
those feelings
Session 1: Feeling sad – feeling happy
Session 2: Feeling angry or annoyed
Session 3: Feeling jealous
Session 4: Feeling nervous
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16. Module 2:
Communication
Goal: To improve children’s
abilities to communicate their
feelings.
Session 1: Improving
communication.
Session 2: Listening.
Session 3: Who can help us?
Session 4: Saying what you
want to say.
• Module 3:
Making and breaking relationships
Goal: To improve children’s
abilities to make friends and to
cope with rejection and
loneliness.
Session 1: How to keep a
friend?
Session 2: Dealing with
loneliness and rejection.
Session 3: How to resolve
conflicts with friends?
Session 4: How to make
friends?
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17. • Module 4:
Conflict resolution
Goal: To improve children’s
abilities to resolve conflicts.
Session 1: How to recognise
good solutions?
Session 2: Bullying.
Session 3: Solving problems.
Session 4: Helping others to
resolve conflicts.
• Module 5:
Dealing with change and loss
Goal: To improve children’s
abilities to cope with change
and loss.
Session 1: Change and loss
are part of life.
Session 2: Coping with death.
Session 3: Visit to a graveyard.
Session 4: Learning from
change and loss.
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18. • Module 6:
We cope
Goal: To improve children’s abilities to use a variety of coping
strategies.
Session 1: Different ways to cope.
Session 2: How to help others?
Session 3: Adapting to new situations.
Session 4: Celebrating together.
• www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk.
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19. • Teddy Emo is a teddybear which comes from a distant world- The
Magical World of Emotions, which is behind seven high mountains
and seven long rivers. It always comes with two fairies to meet the
children.
• In each session it greets the children and says goodbye, always
shares interesting stories from its life and asks the children if they
have had similar experiences.
MAGICAL WORLD OF
EMOTIONS
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20. When the meetings come to an
end, the fairies say goodbye but
teddy Emo stays with the children
forever so that they can always give
it a hug.
Teddy talks about situations which
brought about different feelings in it - it
calls them and says how it handles
them. Children react to Emo very
enthusiastically, tell it about their
experiences and also guess its
emotions and advise how to cope with
them.
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21. WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS „Understanding Children’s World of
Emotions”
• The aim of the workshop is to support the activities which develop
emotional intelligence and social maturity in children.
• Parents learn how to express emotions effectively, a parent-child
communication model by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
• The workshop also supports parents in the process of handling
violent and often uncontrollable emotions in their children.
• Together we look for answers to questions:
• How to channel child’s emotions?
• How to react to child’s emotions?
• How to handle them but not suppress?
• How to use the language of children?
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