Highlights
Highlights
The learning experiences within Highlights teach children to make connections with positive things that exist or occur daily within themselves and others and in the world around them, and to harness the positive emotions that follow. Children have the opportunity to build skills to look for, notice and fully appreciate the simple moments that encourage a sense of joy in their lives, and build positive associations and relationships through highlights. They have the opportunity to build a skillset to recall and develop highlights for a positive mood shift.
Feelings
Feelings
The learning experiences within Feelings teach children to identify their own feelings, consider why and how they experience particular feelings, and then identify the behaviours that can follow. Children learn how their feelings and thoughts drive their behaviours and actions, and they identify how their actions and behaviours can influence the feelings of others. They begin to build skills for self-awareness and self-management as they learn how to begin to take control of their emotions and responses to situations and others, and build skills for social awareness and management. Ultimately children learn how to create space between events and their responses so they can begin to choose empowering feelings and thoughts. These are key skills in any high quality Social and Emotional Learning program, and SEL has been widely proven to have positive impacts for children both personally and academically.
Focus
Focus
The learning experiences within Focus teach children appropriate strategies and skills to build, maintain and utilise ‘focus’ skills. Children learn how to become aware of the present moment and focus in connected ways on what they are experiencing in that moment. They will also learn the importance of focusing on particular goals and outcomes they want to achieve and also how to incorporate positive focus skills when experiencing hardship and challenges. This unit allows children to develop skills to build and maintain a fully connected focus, focus through distractions, and explore positive emotions and happenings in their daily lives and use their positive focus as a way to experience more happiness, achieve goals and experiencing the emotions they choose. The research suggests the Focus activities also assist those children diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Early Childhood Program Benefits
Introduction to Positive Living Skills
