Strong in your shoes - emotion cards

To be resilient, it's important to be aware of your feelings and to be able to manage them. The feeling cards help you develop this important skill! Explore the many feelings you can have every day and practice how to move from uncomfortable feelings to more pleasant ones. If you can clearly name what you feel, you'll understand yourself better. You'll also notice how your feelings influence your behavior and you'll learn to deal with them better.

Strong in your shoes

The "Strong in your shoes" program aims to strengthen children's emotional resilience and self-confidence. It is designed to help children feel happier, cope better with stress, and develop positive relationships. These factors together ensure that children not only feel better but also perform better at school.

The "Strong in your shoes" publications are aimed at primary school-aged children and can be used effectively both at school and at home.

Schools can excellently integrate the program, which focuses on developing broad skills, into their curriculum. These skills are interdisciplinary but can also be part of lessons on social-emotional skills and/or citizenship education.

The "Strong in your shoes" program includes the Reflection Book. In the Reflection Book, children work on important skills for 10 weeks, with one skill being covered each week. Filling in the reflection book takes about 5 to 10 minutes per day. The daily exercises and reflections encourage children to master the skills and to think about their feelings and behavior. The reflection book is also available as a school set specifically for schools to start working with all students immediately.

In addition to the Reflection Book, Feeling Cards have also been developed to provide support. The Feeling Cards help children to identify, understand, verbalize, and regulate the many feelings they can experience every day. This strengthens their resilience and self-confidence. The Feeling Cards ultimately also make it easier for children to identify their feelings, which they can then write about in the Reflection Book.

Conversation Cards have also been developed within the "Strong in your shoes" program. The Conversation Cards can be used in various ways to promote children's social and emotional development. Start the day or lesson with a card as a 'check-in' or draw a card as a starting point for a conversation about a relevant topic such as emotions, challenges, or positive experiences. This can be done in pairs or in groups, in one-on-one sessions with a child, or during parent-child conversations. You can also choose a card and have students write down their thoughts and feelings about it in their Reflection Book.

Use the Reflection Book in combination with the cards and together build self-confidence, self-knowledge, and the best performance!