Feelings In Focus: Creating Your Emotional Toolkit

Build emotional awareness and practical coping skills through discussion, reflection and mood card creation. Feelings In Focus: Creating Your Emotional Toolkit Life doesn't come with an instruction manual, but together we can build something close. Join us for this fortnightly, in-person counselling group where we'll unpack a different emotion each session and create practical tools to help navigate it. From anxiety and anger to joy, grief, hope, and everything in between, each session focuses on understanding one emotion, why it shows up, what it's trying to tell us, and how we can respond to it in healthy and helpful ways. Participants will create a personalised Mood Card for the featured emotion. On one side, you'll use drawing, colouring, or creative expression to represent the feeling. On the reverse, you'll build your own "emotional toolkit" by recording coping strategies, helpful reminders, grounding techniques, supportive contacts, and ideas that can help when that emotion pays an uninvited visit. Think of it as building a toolbox for life. While we can't always stop difficult emotions from turning up, we can make sure we've got the right tools within reach when they do so the spanner does not get thrown into the works! Over time, you'll create a collection of Mood Cards covering a range of emotions, forming a personalised resource you can return to whenever life feels challenging. No artistic experience is needed, just curiosity, a willingness to explore, and perhaps room in your toolkit for a few new emotional spanners. What to expect: • Fortnightly in-person sessions • Exploration of a different emotion each session • Counselling-based discussion and reflection • Creative Mood Card activities • Practical coping strategies and wellbeing tools • A supportive and welcoming group environment