Practice Guides
Delve deeply into emotional health with our interactive, comprehensive Practice Guides. Explore step-by-step guidance, insightful activities, and interactive elements, equipping you with a comprehensive understanding and practical strategies for nurturing children's emotional growth.
Emotion Navigator: Empowering Kids Through Every Feeling
Help kids navigate a full range of emotions - even the ones that are often unwelcome. Learn the value of every emotion and discover tools and tips to help kids embrace them all from the difficult to the exuberant. Includes engaging audio stories about seven major emotions by Dylan Gee, Ph.D.
Pair with our Practice Lab: Navigating Big Emotions and try our fun, interactive Big Emotion Cards.
How Am I Really Feeling?
Emotions are here to help us - they're like signals alerting us to pay attention to something important. Help kids learn to tune into what they are feeling and how their feelings relate to their thoughts and experiences.
Companion guide: Emotion Navigator: Empowering Kids Through Every Feeling
When Adults Get it Wrong
We’ve all had moments where we wished we could hit "undo". But here’s the truth: with every misstep, there’s a chance to grow. This resource is packed with science-backed strategies for transforming mistakes into opportunities for connection, trust, and emotional growth.
CoCreating with Kids: Science-Based Practices to Enhance Emotional Health
Our foundational resource designed for caring adults to use with kids. This flipbook is bursting with activities, conversation prompts, and self-reflection exercises, all rooted in scientific insights. It teaches and empowers adults to put our three guiding practices into practical use with the kids in their life to enhance emotional health. With tons to explore and do alongside kids, you’ll find endless ways to engage, learn, and grow together.
Companion guide: design your unique practice with CoCreating for Kids.
CoCreating for Kids: Building a Powerful Practice for Kids’ Emotional Health
Designed to support caring adults in developing their own, unique practice for kids. This guide dives deep into the science-backed strategies and practical insights essential for creating meaningful connections with the children in your life. Explore a treasure-trove of ideas ready to be personalized to support your unique CoCreating journey.
Companion guide: put your practice into action with CoCreating with Kids.
Building a Powerful Practice Planner
Would you like help creating your unique CoCreating practice? This planner walks you through a step-by-step process for imagining and documenting a practice that will serve the kids you care about in your daily interactions. Grounded in our Guiding Practices, it will guide you through setting, planning and actioning intentional goals for nurturing the well-being of the kids in your life. This planner helps you bring to life the ideas and exercises in our CoCreating for Kids guide.
Conversation Starters: Conversations as Pathways to Emotional Health
Nurture emotional awareness and meaningful conversations with expert-crafted prompts. Ideal for caring adults seeking to foster meaningful connection with the children in their life.
CoCreating with Kids Summer Reading List
Embark on a journey of deeper connection through the power of reading. Discover handpicked children and teen books that captivate and serve as tools to support their emotional well-being.
CoCreator Summer Reading List
Discover a curated collection of books recommended by Walden Wise Scientific Advisors. These engaging adult reads offer moments of self-reflection, connection, and fulfillment.
Embracing the U-Curve
Introduce children to eustress, the “just right” stress. Discover the U Curve and how feelings change with different levels of stress. The collaborative action plan will help kids find their just-right spot and get back to it when stress becomes too much.
