Nurturing Emotional Awareness

- Written by Dr Glenn Moodie, Principal of KTJ

In November, I had the pleasure of attending the FOBISIA Leadership Conference in Bangkok and of presenting a workshop alongside Nadim Saad, the CEO of The Happy Confident Company. We’ve been working with Happy Confident for three terms now and we believe their ‘Feel It’ programme really adds at a very fundamental level to our delivery of PSHE and more generally to our development of the characters of our students. 

It is often assumed that we understand our emotions, because we all have them, all the time. But, as Nadim says, ‘You have to name it, to tame it.’ The Feel It programme has allowed our students to understand how to identify and express emotions, how to better self regulate, and how to be compassionate towards themselves and others.

Watch the video below to see the impact the 'Feel It' programme has had on our students...