Core Skills Analysis
Health and Wellbeing
Olivia took part in a session with a support worker focused on grief and her feelings. The activity gave Olivia an opportunity to engage with emotional support and explore feelings connected with grief. Olivia learned that feelings can be acknowledged and discussed with a trusted support person. The session supported Olivia’s understanding of emotional wellbeing and the value of seeking support.
Communication and Language
During the session, Olivia engaged with a support worker in a conversation centered on grief and feelings. This provided practice in communicating about personal emotions in a supportive setting. Olivia learned that sharing feelings with a trusted person can help make emotional experiences easier to express and understand. The activity also involved listening and taking part in a focused, supportive exchange.
Tips
Tips Build on Olivia’s learning with gentle, choice-led activities: invite Olivia to create a feelings color wheel, use a journal or private art project to express emotions, and read a story about grief together before discussing its characters’ feelings. A simple nature walk or memory-making activity can offer another calm way to reflect, while keeping conversation open and at Olivia’s pace.
Book Recommendations
- The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers: A picture book about loss, emotional protection, and finding a way to reconnect with feelings.
- The Invisible String by Patrice Karst: A reassuring story about enduring connections with people who are apart or have died.
Try This Next
- Feelings color wheel: choose colors to represent different emotions and add words or drawings.
- Reflection prompt: “What helps me feel supported when I have a difficult feeling?”
- Story discussion: identify how a character responds to loss and what sources of comfort appear in the story.