Emotion Explorer:
Drama and Wellbeing Workshop
✓ Reception - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional actor-facilitator
✓ PSHE, RSE, Children's Mental Health Week
✓ Delivered in your school hall
A workshop that nurtures emotional wellbeing through drama and play.
It’s normal to worry, and it’s OK to feel sad sometimes - it’s what you do next that counts!
Perfect for Children’s Mental Health Week in February, our Emotion Explorer workshops empower children to feel confident in recognising, sharing and expressing their feelings. The active, energising workshops support a whole-school approach to emotional wellbeing; with a focus on building empathy and emotional resilience through play.
During the class-by-class sessions, a trained actor-facilitator guides the children through a series of carefully-developed drama exercises that sensitively encourage reflection and expression. In a safe, nurturing and energising environment, children learn to describe and place their feelings in the body, connect with others, and discover practical ways of managing trickier emotions.
Created by:
Abigail Rosser
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- We work with children in their usual classes.
- Sessions are 35 to 40 minutes for Reception, 35 to 60 minutes for KS1 and 40 to 90 minutes for KS2.
- We can work with up to six classes per day.
- To work with fewer classes we can visit for just an afternoon or morning session.
- To work with more than six classes we can visit across multiple days.
- We will send you a suggested timetable when you enquire and we can work with you to create a timetable that works for your school day.
- Think critically about the themes of the story by experiencing it first-hand.
- Increase feelings of empathy, connection and compassion by working together as a class.
- Have an understanding of different emotions, and how they can be handled.
- Develop creativity, physical expression and communication skils which can have a positive effect on mental health.
- Develop creative ownership and the imagination by working alongside a professional actor.
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Watch us in action!
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