What's Your Weather Like? (Children's Mindfulness Exercise)

Supporting children to recognize and cope with emotions, supporting adults see into their world and understand how we can help. This simple practice brings fun; as well as an imaginative way to identify and name emotions. Perhaps even gain some objectivity on these, learning to stay with these feelings, rather than being confused by them. When kids develop their emotional intelligence, they can better understand their inner world, they can engage with it with curiosity and confidence.

Transcript

Let's go on an adventure to find your personal weather report.

Your weather is made up of the thoughts and feelings you're having right now.

If you feel calm and happy,

Maybe that's kind of like a sunny day.

Or if you're upset,

Maybe you feel like a stormy ocean.

Let's explore your weather report together.

You can give an example of your own weather report if you like.

So close your eyes for a minute,

Just a minute,

And notice any feelings that you might have.

Big ones or small ones or any kind.

If you were telling me about the weather inside you,

What would you tell me?

That sounds pretty neat.

Can you be a little curious maybe about that feeling?

Tell me more about what it feels like.

What kind of weather is it?

Is it staying the same or is it changing sometimes?

Great.

And do you notice anything else?

Is there any other kind of weather inside you?

Sometimes in even the stormiest ocean or the rainiest day,

There's a little patch of blue sky somewhere,

A little bit of being okay.

Feelings are like weather because they change.

Clouds float away and rain stops.

The weather doesn't stay the same way forever,

So you don't have to fight with it.

If you're having a bad,

Negative,

Uncomfortable feeling,

It can be just like that.

If you just let it be and be a little curious about it,

It will move along or change and you can see the blue sky again.

And I love to know what your weather is like too.

Then I can bring you a raincoat or something to help you or just be there with you.

Thank you for sharing your weather with me.

I really enjoyed it and I hope you did too.

Reviews

Lovely way to have a self check in myself. Will definitely give this a go with my little one. Thank you 🌞