Ruth Cumberland is an Emotional Wellbeing Teacher. We have been extremely fortunate to have Ruth work with us on a number of occasions.  Ruth is now providing online sessions about relaxation, feelings, coping strategies and much more to help children and adults during this unique time.

Intro to Ruth's Relaxations

A brief introduction to my upcoming self-help videos for children and young people.

Activity 1: Explore deep feelings

Pick an object! An activity to help process uncomfortable feelings.

Activity 2: Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique)

Learn a simple and effective technique to remove negative feelings.

Activity 3: Visualisation

Take a trip to your magical forest and meet your powerful protector.

Activity 4: Play for happy feelings

Using character toys to process deep feelings in a fun way.

Activity 5: Exploring emotions

A short activity using Foxy the puppet to explore emotions. A nice, simple check-in to see how you're feeling.

Activity 6: Visualisation

Visit your forest and create a lovely protective bubble for yourself. This helps you let go of anxiety and feel calm.

Activity 7: Visualisation

Explore and let go of uncomfortable feelings with a visualisation/ story about your forest.

Activity 8: Drawing & journal

Use drawings to create stories for processing deeply buried feelings. When we do this regularly, we let go of feelings that make us anxious, angry or sad.

Activity 9: Managing worries about other people

Create a 'totem' that sends love to our favourite people, so that our worries are turned into positive thoughts.

Activity 10: Tapping to let go of negative thoughts

Choose a limiting belief to let go of and learn a simple 'tapping' sequence to retrain your mind.

Activity 11: Managing worries

A short visualisation technique to manage worries, which helps us live in the moment more easily and feel calm.

Activity 12: Create a positive mind (part 1)

Learn how the mind works and why we might sometimes have negative thoughts. Look at some ways to stop negative thinking.

Activity 13: Visualisation

Using a story about your forest, explore an undiscovered part of your imaginary world.

Activity 14: Home-massage

Explore ways of creating a massage for family members.

Activity 15: Managing feelings around COVID19 lock-down

Explore different emotions that children/ young people may have around the current situation and strategies to support.

Activity 16: For parents/ carers

Approaches/techniques to support children when they display powerful emotions.

Activity 17: Create a plan to manage angry feelings

A three-step practical plan to help children/ young people manage anger.

Activity 18: The Time we Spring Cleaned the World

A poem, author unknown, to help young people make sense of the current COVID19 situation

Activity 19: Create a positive mind (part two)

A simple activity to examine our thoughts and choose which to keep and which to let go.

Activity 20: for parents/ carers.

A look at how anger affects our children and suggestions of how adults can support them.

Activity 21: Create a mandala for well-being

Using art as a relaxation/ meditation

Activity 22: Create a positive mind (part 3)

Learn a focused approach to changing a negative thought into a positive one. Tapping technique is used to embed the new way of thinking.

Activity 23: Access your inner villain

An exercise that can be done through drawing or play to get in touch with your inner bad guy. This helps you realise that we all have a part of ourselves tha...

Activity 24: For parents/carers

How to approach school-work during COVID19 lock-down by prioritising mental health

Activity 25: For parents/ Carers

Suggestions for parents/ carers who want to implement something new into family life during COVID19 lock-down. An example given is a bedtime routine.

Activity 26: Imagination Exercise

This exercise demonstrates how we can use sounds to inspire our imagination and process deep feelings.

Activity 27: Drawing Activity

This activity helps to explore deep-rooted feelings and build resilience so that we can stop negative thoughts becoming beliefs.

Activity 28: Play at home

Explore ways to turn your home or garden into a magical imaginary world

Activity 29: For Reiki practitioners

A demonstration of how to carry out a distant healing treatment for Reiki level 2 practitioners

Activity 30: For Reiki practitioners

For practitioners attuned to level 1 who want to revisit how to use Reiki

Activity 31: Activity to explore feelings

Using either drawing, play or discussion with a grown up, visit a fantasy world in a time machine

Activity 32: Understanding dreams

Learn a little about why we have nightmares and how we can explore and understand them

Activity 33: Processing Grief

Support for parents/carers helping young people process grief, especially during COVID19

Activity 34: Dealing with bullying

A guide for young people on how to deal with bullying, including a little about why people bully but a main focus on how best to put a stop to the behaviour ...