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Group Building Activity

Color Your Emotions

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"Color Your Emotions" is an interactive tool designed to foster emotional awareness and creativity while exploring mental health concerns. It engages students and facilitators in reflective and artistic activities to identify and express emotions.

Aims of the tool

To raise emotional awareness and understanding of mental health disorders.
To provide a creative outlet for expressing emotions.
To help facilitators identify and address emotional patterns within groups.

Description of the tool

"Color Your Emotions" consists of two decks:

Emotions Deck: Each card represents an emotion with an associated color. Students reflect on their feelings, choose corresponding colors, and create artwork to visually express and release their emotions.
Constellation Deck: Facilitators analyze the emotional data gathered from students' color selections to map emotional patterns and assess the group's mental health climate.
Participants share their artwork and reflections in a group setting, fostering a supportive environment for emotional expression and discussion.

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Tool overview

Color Your Emotions

http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/4616

This tool is for

Students (of all ages) Teachers, professors, trainers, and facilitators

and addresses

Disability

It is recommended for use in:

Youth Exchanges

Materials needed:

Emotions Deck
Constellation Deck
Colored pencils or watercolors
A4 paper

Duration:

The tool can be completed in approximately 1.5 to 2 hours, including:

Introduction and explanation of the activity (10-15 minutes).
Reflecting and selecting emotions (10-15 minutes).
Creating the artwork (30-45 minutes).
Sharing and group discussion (20-30 minutes).

Behind the tool

The tool was created by

Enes Petromilo

in the context of

Project "I Do No Harm, I Include" Obón, Zaragoza, Spain

The tool has been experimented in

Project "I Do No Harm, I Include"

The tool was published to the Toolbox by

Enes Petromilo (on 10 December 2024)

and last modified

6 December 2024

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