NLPS Developed Resources
Our Mental Health Team (Student Advocacy Counsellors and SFSK Wellness Coaches) have developed the following resources for our NLPS families:
All About Me Board Game
Our Check-In Chart includes questions to help you or your child examine how you are feeling, as well as techniques to help calm or energize you.
Self Awareness starts with people being able to identify how they’re feeling. Emotion check-ins help us to identify the feeling, but also the intensity of that feeling. We cannot manage a feeling if we cannot recognize it. If you want to change how you feel later, you need to start with how you're feeling now because if you don’t know how you’re feeling you can’t do anything about it.
Journalling is a fantastic way for anyone to stop and take a few minutes to reflect on their day, their behaviors, and their actions. Doing so leads to increased self-awareness, and doing this activity at night will likely help with sleep. Here are some journaling prompts to help you start this process.
In each space, write out your strengths!
Curated Resources
All of the resources below have been reviewed and recommended by our Mental Health Team (Student Advocacy Counsellors and SFSK Wellness Coaches).
- 9 Games to Help Your Child Develop and Improve Self-Reflection
kidskonnect
Use these games to help teach your child to self-reflect. - 10+ Self-Awareness Activities for Kids
Pathway to Success - 61 Mindfulness Journal Prompts For Students (+ Printable PDF)
mindfulnessbox
Uncover the therapeutic benefits of journaling and guide your child towards self-discovery. - Create a Me Tree- A Self-Reflection Activity
Action for Healthy Kids
Use this activity to reflect on the unique things that make you – you, and the people and communities that surround and support you. - How to Increase Self-Awareness: 16 Activities and Tools (+PDF)
Positive Psychology
Information, questionnaires, activities, worksheets and tools, and book recommendations to help build self-awareness. - Mad-Sad-Glad Libs
Great Kids
Use these fun fill-in-the-blanks stories to help children learn about and identify feelings. - Reflection Activity Sheet
Saturday Gift
Use this activity sheet to reflect on your year and some lessons you have learned.
- 7 Ways to Help Teens and Tweens Gain Self-Awareness
Understood - Self-Awareness: The Key to Taking Care of Your Mental Health and Wellbeing
Inner Melbourne Clinical Psychology
Put simply, self-awareness is shining a light on the parts of your internal world that might otherwise get buried down, pushed aside or go unnoticed. - What Is Self-Reflection and Why It Matters For Wellness
Psychology Today
One way to access the unconscious is through self-reflection—i.e., putting a mirror up to ourselves and analyzing what we see or feel as objectively as possible so that we can better understand ourselves and how think, feel, and behave.