Nurturing Emotional Growth
Your Free SEL Training Course for Educators
You Will Learn To Use
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Emotion Explorer 🧭
This interactive digital tool helps children identify and understand a wide range of feelings. By clicking on different emotion words paired with clear emojis, kids receive simple, age-appropriate explanations, building their emotional vocabulary and self-awareness. It's like a compass guiding them through the landscape of their inner world.
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Coping Skills Spinner 🌀
When big feelings arise, this engaging spinner offers children a fun and quick way to find a healthy coping strategy. With a spin, it suggests practical actions like "Take 3 Deep Breaths" or "Talk to a Grown-Up," helping kids learn and practice self-regulation in the moment. It provides a tangible way to break the cycle of overwhelming emotions.
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Kindness Challenge Generator 🎁
This tool inspires prosocial behavior by generating simple, actionable "kindness missions" for children. From giving a compliment to helping a friend, each challenge encourages empathy, generosity, and positive social interactions, making kindness a fun and rewarding daily practice. It's a gift of compassion they can give to others and themselves.
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My Calming Corner 🧘♀️
A virtual, peaceful scene designed to teach mindfulness and self-soothing. Children can interact with different elements (like a breathing star or sound button) to explore calming techniques. This tool helps reinforce the concept of finding a peaceful inner and outer space to relax and regulate emotions.
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Gratitude Jar Builder ✨
This interactive jar encourages positive thinking and reflection. Children can type in things they are thankful for, watching their grateful thoughts appear as colorful notes inside the virtual jar. It's a powerful way to cultivate a habit of gratitude and focus on the good things in their lives, fostering optimism and well-being.
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Story SEL Question Explorer 📚
This unique tool connects directly to your Good Little Souls stories, providing educators and parents with specific, thought-provoking questions about characters' emotions, choices, and lessons learned. It transforms read-alouds into deeper SEL discussions, helping children connect story themes to their own lives and build critical thinking skills around social-emotional concepts.
What’s inside
Chapter 1
This chapter establishes a strong understanding of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) basics, focusing on how to nurture children's self-awareness and self-management skills. You'll learn to help children identify their emotions and develop healthy coping strategies.
Chapter 2
Building on foundational skills, this chapter guides you in fostering children's social awareness and relationship skills. You'll discover how to help kids understand others' perspectives, build empathy, communicate positively, and resolve conflicts.
Chapter 3
The final chapter focuses on empowering educators to apply SEL skills in real-world contexts and integrate them seamlessly into their environment. You'll learn about responsible decision-making, fostering inner light, and sustaining SEL practices for long-term growth.
Frequently asked questions
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This free course provides educators and daycare providers with practical strategies and essential insights to integrate Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) into their daily practices. It's designed to help you foster emotional intelligence, resilience, and kindness in children aged 3-8, creating a more supportive learning environment.
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The course is divided into 3 comprehensive chapters, with 5 modules in each, totaling 15 modules. Each module is a downloadable PDF, allowing you to learn at your own pace, anytime, anywhere. You can access the course by enrolling on our website's dedicated landing page.
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Your course includes access to six engaging, free interactive SEL tools: the Emotion Explorer 🧭, Coping Skills Spinner 🌀, Kindness Challenge Generator 🎁, My Calming Corner 🧘♀️, Gratitude Jar Builder ✨, and the Story SEL Question Explorer 📚. These digital tools are designed to make SEL concepts fun and accessible for children.
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This course is specifically designed for early childhood educators, elementary school teachers, daycare providers, and childcare professionals who work with children aged approximately 3-8 years old. But it's great for anyone looking to enhance their ability to support children's emotional development.
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These tools are perfect for integrating SEL into daily routines. You can use them for quick emotion check-ins, to help children manage big feelings, inspire acts of kindness, encourage mindfulness, foster gratitude, or deepen discussions after reading a story. They provide engaging, screen-based activities that support emotional growth.
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Yes! As a special resource for educators and daycare providers, you can receive a free PDF copy of the "Good Little Souls" book. Simply email us at littlesouls23@gmail.com to request your complimentary copy.