​The Inner Garden: Emotional Literacy & Regulation in Practice

​Children experience a wide range of feelings every day, yet they are often expected to manage them without the language, understanding, or support to do so.

​The Inner Garden offers a gentle, relational way to help children make sense of their inner world.

​In this 2-hour workshop, you’ll be introduced to a child-friendly emotional literacy framework that uses metaphor, story, and connection to support children’s understanding of their feelings and regulation.

​Together, we’ll explore how children move through different emotional states and science behind it and how we can respond in ways that support safety, co-regulation, and readiness for learning.

​You’ll leave with practical tools, shared language, and simple strategies that can be embedded into everyday interactions, routines, and learning environments.

​WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• ​A simple, child-friendly way to talk about feelings and regulation

• ​How to recognise and respond to different emotional states (the “gardens”)

• ​Practical co-regulation strategies that support real-time needs

• ​How to embed emotional literacy into everyday practice

• ​Ways to create calm, connected, and responsive environments

​WHO THIS IS FOR

​Early childhood educators, teachers, and anyone supporting children’s wellbeing, behaviour, and development.

​Support children to understand their feelings, regulate their bodies, and find their way back to connection, with practical tools you can use straight away.

​A gentle, practical approach to emotional literacy, regulation, and connection.