Digging Deeper into Emotion Coaching

Licette Gus leads this day and invites you to join her and dig deeper into your understanding and use of Emotion Coaching. 

Outline of Day 

1. The practice of physical/emotional self-regulation strategies participants could use themselves but also model and use with pupils/staff/parents.  These include: deep breathing, 7/11 breathing, progressive relaxation, sensory attention focusing and shifting activities, taking in and enhancing the good and visualisations.
2. Discussion how paticipants had used EC in their place of work or home since initial training and consider successes and difficulties.  
3. Different areas of EC-related skill development or extension:

• The importance of non-verbal communication and how to tune into children’s emotions - including empathic listening
• How to use EC when a child has ‘flipped their lid’ – combining physical ‘up’ regulation with cognitive ‘down’ regulation.
• Meta-Emotion Philosophy: Managing personal feelings when a pupil rejects us.
• Use of Regulation Stations in class/home to support children’s emotional awareness.
• Critical consideration of successful and unsuccessful attempts at EC.
•  EC anxiety; an emotion that may result in more internalised behaviour.

    4.   Continued EC practice/reflection through the use of script writing.