Navigating Emotions · Online course
Running a Play-doh Feelings Session
Help children show, shape and make sense of what they feel inside, with modelling dough and scene mats, without needing to find the words first.
Get the course
£39.99 2h 27m of CPD at your own pace: five topics, a 50-minute training video, six printable PDFs and a certificate of completion
Free for members. Monthly and Annual members already have this course. You’ll find it in the Learning Portal.
What it is
A gentle, playful intervention: the child makes shapes with modelling dough and tells a story with them, with or without words. For parents, carers and professionals. No therapy training needed.
- 50-minute training video
- Interactive activities
- 18 scene mats and a card pack
- Downloadable notes
- Certificate of Completion
What learners say
“Thoroughly enjoyed the training and all of the resources supplied. I love the way that Tracy explains everything and the colourful presentations keep you engaged.”
“This has given me some great ideas on ways to work with children when they don’t always have the words to explain how they’re feeling.”
“Very enjoyable course. Explained very well and at a gentle pace.”
What the training covers
- See the many ways children communicate
- Understand why the body comes first
- Use the scene mats, joining pictures and cards
- Run a full eight-step session
What you can print and keep
The BOUNCE Dough Feelings pack. Print, laminate and use again and again.
- Adult guideFive pages: the eight steps, wondering prompts and read-aloud scripts
- Child pack12 cards and the My dough story sheet
- Scene mats18 photographic scenes for the story to begin on
- Joining picturesFive pictures to lay between two mats
Need more than one? Membership is £319 a year.
It includes every intervention in the shop, every resource, and everything added through the year.