#emotionalliteracy — Public Fediverse posts

The Feelings Toolbox by Dr. Karen Jacob — an illustrated book + tactile toolset helping ages 3–7 recognize and regulate emotions through play, grounded in DBT/ACT/CBT/MBT. Learn more: https://no-quam.com/ About Us 🧸📘✨ #ChildMentalHealth #EmotionalLiteracy

Resilience is often framed as something big. A breakthrough. A transformation. An epiphany.

But most of the time, it’s much smaller than that.

A pause before reacting. A slight shift in direction. A boundary that protects just enough energy to stay present.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/micro-repair-for-macro-change?r=6l8ed8

#EmotionalIntelligence #Resilience #CivicEngagement #MentalHealth #DigitalWellbeing #SystemsThinking #YouthEmpowerment #EmotionalLiteracy #InnerWork

Some tools feel theoretical — these ones don’t.
They were built in real rooms, with real young people, during real moments when thinking needed more than answers… it needed space.

- Design principles for calmer classrooms.
- A debate framework refined across 300+ dialogues.
- Reflection prompts that help groups settle.
- Curiosity tools that turn tension into understanding.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/tools-for-building-better-thinking?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#Democracy #Education #CivicEngagement #EmotionalLiteracy #Facilitation #YouthWork

I'm so happy about this.

Inspired by @Aurin_the_classtraitor I started making a box of cards for myself, but not just your typical flashcards for #SpacedRepetition, but for whatever.

The first thing I love about this is that I love standardization.
▶️ The box is a wooden A6 box for flashcards (landscape format)
▶️ I use blank A& cards/paper (200g/m2) because I use my cards in portrait format and lined flashcards only exist in landscape format.
▶️ I use A6 tab cards in 4 colors
▶️ I put 16x9 mm labels to stick over the tab labels and write my own categories
▶️ All of this can be bought in nearby stores - no customization needed

But the main thing I love, is that this can be used for so much more than vocab.
My tabs:
➡️ Juggling: I put the names and a simple illustration of all the juggling tricks I know on cards and ordered them in 5 tabs:
play: tricks I can do very well and play around with, vary and e.g. use as warm-ups
perfect: tricks I can do pretty well, but want to be able to do better
train: tricks I can basically do, but not good yet
learn: tricks I understand and am learning
try: tricks that are new to me
➡️ Yoga: I put a lot of asanas and illustrations on cards and put them in the tabs:
calm
stretching
balance
strength
and new
(btw many asanas probably can't be put in one of these categories for everybody - this is about what I struggle with the most with the specific asana - except for "calm" which means I don't struggle)
➡️ classic flash cards with tabs for now, today, tomorrow, this week, next week, one for all 12 months of the year, done, archive and new
➡️ Drums: I haven't created the cards yet, but the tabs are similar to juggling: warm(-up), play, train, learn, try
➡️ Feelings: I created lots and lots of cards for feelings - not just emotions, but broader. I think this will help me better understand and describe how I feel. This deck will still grow a lot because there are so many things you can feel. So far the cards only contain the word(s) describing the feeling, but I'll probably add "links" to related cards and other stuff. It took me a while to find a tab system I'm happy with, and it will probably change, but right now I have these (all with 2 tabs for positive and negative feelings):
mood
balance (for anything related to calmness, freedom, stress, dependence, boredom, ...)
security (for things like clarity, determination, confusion & brain fog)
energy (self-empowerment, drive, creativity, powerlessness, avolition, anhedonia, ...)
self-worth (pride, self-love, shame, blame, ...)
courage (hope, defiance, pleasant anticipation ("Vorfreude"), fear, panic, fright, ...)
interest (lust, curiosity, excitement, indifference, disgust, revulsion)
affection (love, friendship, admiration, closeness, hate, distance, agression, anger, ...)
interpersonal (this needs a new name contains mostly pseudo emotions that describe less how you feel, but why: esteem, praise, belonging, humiliation, punishment, jealousy, distrust, ...)
physical (scent, warmth, beauty, stench, heat, ugliness, ...)

On the first card I have gathered more ideas like embodyment & mindfulness exercises, mental skills, local plant & animal species, ...
On it's back I have written down all the measures so I can get more boxes, cards, tabs and labels, when I need them.

I might post more about #PaulasBox as I gain more experience with it.

Btw, this easily covers my #3GoodThings of today.

#FlashCards #StudyCards #CueCards #CardBox #TrainingCards #Juggling #yoga #drumming #drums #emotions #feelings #EmotionalLiteracy

🌟 Teaching young children the importance of accepting things they can't change is a valuable life lesson. It helps them build resilience and cope with challenges in a positive way.

#mindfulness #eyfs #earlyyearseducation #reggioemilia #reggioapproach #emotionalliteracy #personalsocialemotionaldevelopment

When a parent decides to give their teenage child a smartphone (ideally as late as possible IMHO) I am convinced this book should accompany it. As someone that works in child internet safety, I am convinced this book will safe a teenager's life somewhere. Dr Susie Davies' valuable expertise is exactly what teenagers need to read, rather than the rubbish Musk and Zuckerberg will serve them.
#healthyselfie #smartphonefreechildhood #emotionalliteracy #digitalcitizenship #esafety

6.6: Emotional Literacy with Dr Tiffany Millacci

In this week’s episode, Ariel quizzes guest Dr Tiffany Millacci about emotional literacy. What is this relatively new phrase? How can being emotionally literate help us to navigate difficult conversations, awkward interactions, or even generally just having relationships in the first place? Isn’t all this talk of emotions just a different way for the self-help industry to get us to buy stuff?

Join us for a fascinating conversation about a complex topic - we barely skim the surface! But never fear, Dr Millacci has your back; listen in for some good places to start learning more.

Check out our blog for links!

Disclaimer: We’re coming from a white, western viewpoint and we recognize the limitations and strictures of that - even within the same cultures and societies (heck, within the same families) emotional expression can vary wildly according to personality, gender, neurodivergence, whatever your social location. This interview necessarily takes broad strokes to begin a conversation about how to better be in community with each other, and it is our hope that we can continue to showcase how this can vary, taking steps towards a solarpunk future where people can disagree - even on important topics like politics and religion - without violence or relationship rupture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzD821HHgj8

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Podcast #episode #SeasonSix #EmotionalLiteracy #EmotionalIntelligence #Community #CommunityBuilding #emotion #emotions #affect #AffectTheory #arguments #relationships #HowToBeInRelationship #psychology #agreements #disagreements #YouTube #video #interview

And we're back, baby!

6.1: How Dare Solarpunks Do OUTRAGE?!!! Ariel & Christina Discuss

Now streaming: some hot takes from your solarpunk aunties. Ariel and Christina consider why wallowing in negative feelings is just so delicious ... as opposed to wallowing in, you know, acts of kindness and feelings of compassion, which are just a bit more solarpunk. We live in an age of outrage, it seems: cancelling, social media mobbing, cyberbullying ... but also drawing attention to human rights violations, or dodgy political happenings, or just straight-up illegal goings-on! How can we tell whether our outrage is justified or not? How can we avoid emotional manipulation? Can we think of outrage as a solarpunk tool?

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season6 #Episode #AffectTheory #Emotion #Outrage #RighteousAnger #SocialMediaMobbing #Cyberbullying #protest #NegativeAffects #EmotionalManipulation #EmotionalIntelligence #EmotionalLiteracy

https://youtu.be/JiqeRhUNHjI

Now updated with the correct link, even - Ariel