Mental Health Activity: Sharing Difficult Feelings

"Things I Can't Say Out Loud"

This social-emotional learning activity engages students in 6th through 12th grade to communicate challenging feelings, a traumatic event, or an embarrassing mishap. Students distracted with rehashing a painful event can find relief by writing or drawing it.

In Literature class, this can be an engaging way to interpret a protagonist in a novel. How does he/she/they feel? What are they hiding from other characters, and why?

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Ideas For Use

• A student who is rehashing a painful situation and unable to focus on the classroom lesson
• In a counseling or psychology setting to gently nudge a student to write or draw a scenario too painful to verbalize.
• In peer groups; participants can use the activity as a prompt to discuss their life events as a group,
• In Literature class, examine a protagonist by what he/she/they doesn't say or do, and why

What's Included:

• Bonus "Search" bar. What is the student looking for in this situation? What might help? Boil it down to a phrase.

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