Wellbeing & Family Partnerships

R U OK? Day

Cuppa & Convo

On Thursday 8th we took some time out of our day to check in with one another and asked "are you okay?". It was lovely having a chat with colleagues and members of the community, and finding out more about one another.

R U OK? Resources

Conversation Guide

Conversation Starters

The Resilience Project

Activities to try this month

Empathy - Family Games

Introduction: Working on empathy helps us to identify, understand and feelwhat another person is feeling. When we show empathy or wedo something kind for someone else our brain releases oxytocin. This leads to us increasing our self-esteem/confidence, energylevels, positivity and overall happiness.

Daily Reflection: Ask everyone in the family to name someone who was kind to them today. What did that person do? How did it make you feel?

The Task: Playing games is a great way to spend time together as afamily. Games are also a great way to model empathy by demonstrating how to encourage each other, how to be a goodwinner and loser and how to take turns, follow rules etc.

Here is a list of games to play as a family.

• Duck, duck goose.

• What’s the time Mr. Wolf?

• Freeze tag or freeze dance.

• Poison ball/dodge ball.

• Tunnel ball.

• Follow the leader.

• Simon says.

• Hide and seek.

• Your favourite family board game.

• Bowling/Skittles (set up some plasticbottles and throw a ball to knock them over).