During the “Storytelling for wellbeing” club, the young people have the opportunity to find new ways of expressing their emotional and mental health concerns. They have been sharing stories through different medium (board games, dream log, craft…).
Today at lunch, we went into the realm of dreams.
The members of the "Storytelling for wellbeing" club have to take one thing from their recent dream to recreate one story… #library #Storytelling #club #dreams pic.twitter.com/Chv51gpNfe— St Mungo's Academy library (@stmungo_library) November 29, 2022
During the last sessions, they developed their life perspectives and empathy skills by reading short stories and focusing on the characters emotions.
We looked at each of the characters and talked about their color and found a bead that went along with the character emotions. We discussed characters feelings and how we sometimes show those feelings.
Ready for the "Storytelling for wellbeing" club for the Mental Health Ambassadors!! Today agenda:
-Read aloud a short story @EmpathyLabUK
-Identify character's feelings
-Make an empathy bracelets 🤩@LinziMallonFare#library #club #Read #story #empathy #feelings pic.twitter.com/WxJwZL7uKP— St Mungo's Academy library (@stmungo_library) November 28, 2022
Then, they had to associate a color to each emotions and make a bracelet of the characters emotions or with their own emotions. The beads help kids think about others and the world around them.
The Storytelling for wellbeing club members associated a colour to a feeling and made their very own empathy bracelet 😍🧵📿@EmpathyLabUK #story #wellbeing #empathy #bracelet pic.twitter.com/vJw4HeMUAd
— St Mungo's Academy library (@stmungo_library) December 6, 2022
Making empathy bracelets is as a way to develop social-emotional awareness and self-awareness of others and how they feel. When you use a hands-on activity like this bead activity to teach abstract concepts like empathy, children can stimulate thinking and allow kids to grasp the perspectives of others.
This was a great group and individual activity, they had fun!
