Our Bounce Scale©
Our resources and training materials feature the Bounce Scale©, a Polyvagal Focused Framework aimed at assisting children in understanding and managing their emotional states by examining their nervous system responses.
This framework forms the cornerstone of the Whole Child Approach, seamlessly integrated throughout, offering a tangible representation of emotional states rooted in nervous system reactions, which helps to alleviate blame and shame often associated with emotional dysregulation while empowering children to grasp their emotional needs.
The scale functions as a ladder, illustrating the hierarchy of emotions from calm to sad. Our objective with this approach is to educate children on the factors influencing their nervous system’s response, thereby enabling them, with our support, to take charge of their emotional states.
Once they can identify when their nervous system is activated by internal or external events, they can employ known strategies to regulate it. Numerous strategies are available throughout this site, to induce the calm state, mediated by the parasympathetic system.
Our overarching goal is to equip children with this knowledge so they can effectively utilise these strategies throughout their lives.