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 drama workshop that nurtures emotional wellbeing through stories 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 (9 - 15 February 2026), 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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