The BOUNCE Approach®
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Navigating Emotions
Curiosity instead of judgment.
Some children explode before they know what they’re feeling. Some feel everything, intensely. Some seem to feel nothing at all. And many genuinely cannot name what’s happening inside them – not because they won’t, but because they can’t yet sense it.
This pillar is built on one insight: emotions begin in the body. Before a child can name a feeling, they have to be able to notice it – the racing heart, the heavy chest, the knot in the stomach. Emotions aren’t problems to be managed. They’re messages, each carrying information about what a child needs. The goal isn’t emotional control. It’s emotional literacy.
Below you’ll find courses and resources to support this area – helping children notice the sensations beneath their feelings, build the words for what’s happening inside, and meet their inner world with curiosity instead of fear.
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Emotional literacy resources to support identification, expression and regulation
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Emotion & Anxiety Strategies
Practical tools to support emotional regulation, anxiety and fear responses. #members
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Music to support emotional settling, focus and calm nervous system states. #members
Activities & Ideas
Quick 30-minute emotion-focused activities to support expression and regulation. #members
Choose exactly what you need
Pick the course or resource that fits your child or setting right now. Each one gives you practical, ready-to-use tools you can apply straight away.
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Every course, resource and tool across all six pillars – one membership, with new content added all the time. So as one need is met, the next answer is already waiting.
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What difference did it make?
A Snapshot turns curiosity into clarity.
Once you’ve put this pillar into practice, a Snapshot brings together observations from the adults around a child – a simple, repeatable way to see whether support is making a difference, evidence change over time, and know what to build next. Available within individual courses, and free for Professional Members.
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