The body comes first
Before a feeling has a name, the body is often already showing it. Every session starts by checking in with energy and breath, then looks at the body clues underneath.
Regulation first, expectations second.
Inspired by LEGO®
Emotional Literacy Sessions. Built brick by brick.
Six sessions where children and young people build, choose and point with bricks while they explore feelings, body signals, regulation, relationships and identity. The adult beside them has a lesson plan for every step.
- Six sessions, in order
- About 30 minutes each
- A lesson plan with every session
Why bricks
Some feelings are easier to build than to explain.
Asking a child or young person how they feel can be a lot to ask, especially when their body is already busy. Bricks give them something to point at, choose and move, so the conversation can start without the right words.
More than one way to answer
The child can point, show, choose, use a word or say “not sure”. More than one answer is fine, and so is none. Passing is always fine.
More than one way.
Noticing, not staying green
The goal isn’t to stay in the Just Right Zone all the time. It’s to notice what is happening, and to know what helps them feel safe.
Every brick belongs.
The six sessions
Each session builds on the one before.
Work through them in order, from finding the Just Right Zone to building a Map of Me. Each one adds a step: notice, understand, try, personalise, connect, then bring it all together.
Session 1Notice
The Just Right Zone
Finding my starting point
Finding a starting point: the Just Right Zone, the body clues that go with it and three parts of the brain. Children build a brick window together and notice which brick feels like them today.
Shown: My Window
Session 2Understand
The Growth Zone
Colours, brains and what helps
Linking colours, energy and body clues, and starting to experiment with what helps. Short animated slides open each session and invite the child to get curious.
Shown: The Growth Zone slides
Session 3Try
My Regulation Toolkit
Noticing the clues and finding what helps
Spotting the clues for leaving the zone, meeting four kinds of tools and starting a toolkit. Where am I? Pick my tools. Try them out. Where am I now? Skipping a tool is always an option.
Shown: Regulation
Session 4Personalise
Leaving the Just Right Zone
Listening to my body and my senses
Giving sensations a number, noticing sensory likes and dislikes, and finding tools that suit. Noticing nothing much is fine too.
Shown: My Body Scan
Session 5Connect
My Parts and My People
Getting to know my parts, and who helps me
Getting to know different parts, what each one needs, and the safe people who help. Children choose what each part looks like, from a person or an animal to a robot or a blob.
Shown: My Inner Team
Session 6Bring together
My Map of Me
Tricky thoughts, my map and celebrating what I’ve found
Rebuilding a tricky thought, making a Map of Me and celebrating strengths, such as kindness, courage, listening and being funny.
Shown: celebrating strengths
Inside a session
One page for the child. Start to finish.
Each session has its own page with the slides and every tool in order. Each tool opens full screen, so you can work through it side by side.
- WatchTo beginShort animated slides introduce the idea, with questions to wonder about.
- Start5 to 7 minutesA settling check-in. In Session 1, My Battery, then Breathe: follow the bricks round a shape together, breathing along.
Let’s see how full your battery feels today. There’s no right amount.
- ExploreAbout 30 minutesThe main activities, one after another. In Session 1, the Magic Tree, the slides, My Window, My Body Scan and The Scale.
Which bricks feel like you right now? More than one is fine.
- Finish5 to 10 minutesBack to the first tool to notice again, then a calm close: stretch, breathe out slowly, shake hands gently.
You don’t have to be somewhere different from when we started.
About 30 minutes or more. A session can be split across sittings, and each tool can also be used on its own.
For the adult
A lesson plan with every session.
Know what to open, what to say and what to notice, without preparing anything. Each plan is a PDF you can print or keep on screen.
- The session at a glance: each step in order, with timings and the tools it uses.
- “I can…” targets to choose from, and a clear learning intention.
- Starter, main and plenary, with what to say and the answers to allow.
- A real-life link before the next session. No worksheet or recording needed.
- A record for each session, and a progress tracker across all six.
Licences
Get the sessions with the Professional Studio.
Every Professional Studio licence includes all six Emotional Literacy Sessions and their lesson plans. Choose what you need, then how many people will use it. One licence is one named member of staff.
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Notice what is happening. Know what helps.
Every Professional Studio licence includes all six sessions and their lesson plans, alongside every interactive tool and its guide for the adult.
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