In this 4-week course students will enhance self-awareness and develop emotional intelligence through creative mood journaling.
Emotions are meant to be expressed not repressed. Creative mood journaling provides a perfect outlet for creation expression and emotional processing. Students will be given opportunity to practice a variety of creative mood journaling techniques including drawing, painting, poetry, collage, fiction, theatre, music, and movement.
Weekly Syllabus
Week 1
- Class introduction
- Teacher will read book “Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods that Make My Day” by Jamie Lee Curtis
- Discuss difference between mood, feeling, and emotion
- Build feelings vocabulary list
- Introduce creative mood journaling
- Write Today I Feel poem
Week 2
- Group sharing
- Read book Visiting Feelings and discuss how feelings are like temporary
- Make a Today I Feel collage
Week 3
- Group sharing
- Read book Moody Cow Meditates
- Discuss how mood affects behavior, perception, and cognition
- Learn a “reset” button to boost mood
- Create a Today I Feel character using Personification as a creative mood
Week 4
- Group sharing
- Explore how music affects and supports mood
- Create a Today I Feel mood playlist
- Exploring connection between movement and mood
- Play “Name that Mood” game
