Building Social and Emotional Learning Skills

If you are looking for fresh ideas to help young people build resilience and thrive, you've come to the right place!

This book offers a compendium of group activities to help you develop and support the growth of Social and Emotional Learning skills in youth, including:

Self-Awareness The ability to recognize and express your emotions, share what your identity and personal assets are, and understand when you need help and who can provide it.

Self-Management The ability to set plans and work towards goals, overcome obstacles, regulate your emotions, and advocate for yourself.

Social Awareness The ability to get along with people different from yourself including a capacity for empathy and the ability to consider and appreciate the diverse feelings, perspectives and personal contexts of others.

Interpersonal Skills The ability to use effective communication and collaboration skills to maintain positive relationships with others.

Growth Mindset The ability to persist even with setbacks, and the belief that one's most basic abilities (including intellectual ability) can be developed through study, practice, dedication, and effort.

Each of the 52 simple and engaging activities in this book includes instructions, suggestions for when to use the activity, debrief questions, and extension ideas. Following each activity is a reflection page for you to use to help you think through what worked and what didn't in the activity, so that Social and Emotional Learning is truly fun for all of us!