Golden Path Games Mixed Emotions: an Activity for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

This exercise consists of an 11×17 folding board), 40 color-coded chips, and 90 state of affairs playing cards. The board and chips can be utilized for a “emotions check-in”—making it simple for youths to determine and speak about complicated feelings that they might be experiencing. With the playing cards, gamers examine an individual confronting a state of affairs that may evoke “blended feelings” and use the chips to point out what feelings that individual would possibly really feel. The individuals introduced embody kids, teenagers, and adults. This combination permits gamers to place themselves within the place of different folks, which helps gamers perceive a number of view-points and aids within the improvement of empathy.
Usually kids and teenagers act out as a result of they don’t actually perceive their feelings or don’t know how one can categorical them. Blended Feelings provides you a hands-on software for serving to children determine—and articulate—their emotions.
The colourful board engages kids’s curiosity. It has 100 phrases that describe feelings. Youngsters use the 40 color-coded chips to “present” you which of them feelings they’ve skilled.
You should utilize the board as a easy check-in activity–a means for a kid to carry you updated on their latest experiences, emotions and moods.
The Blended Feelings board can even assist a person, group or household take into consideration and course of a major occasion. The board and chips give them a concrete method to share their perceptions and emotional reactions to what has occurred.
You too can play a recreation with the (included) Blended Feelings playing cards.