Welcome to the wonderful world of The Emps. Where emotions come to life…
You don’t have to guess what your child is feeling anymore. With The Emps you can name it, talk about it, understand it and walk through it together.
What are The Emps?
The Emps have been created by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist with over 20 years of experience in education.
Emotions aren’t problems to fix… they are signals to understand. Big emotions aren’t bad. They’re a sign your child is still learning how to be in the world.
The Emps give every emotion a name, a face and a voice so children can finally talk about what they feel. Instead of vague emojis, colours or charts we have a full cast of characters not just happy, sad, angry and frightened. Because we believe that mental health and wellbeing is grounded in understanding ALL emotions.
The Emps is not about undertaking a short course or work book to become a ‘better parent’, The Emps is a continuing journey, with engaging characters, that gives you and your children lifelong skills to understand and navigate our wonderful world of emotions to support future mental health.
The Emps are aimed at all children, all parents and carers and all educators. In fact The Emps are aimed at everyone who has ever felt an emotion… and not entirely understood why.
Emping
Emping is what we call the art of noticing, feeling and staying with emotions, especially your own. It’s empathy turned inward first, then outward.
It’s feeling, not fixing.
It’s staying soft, even when things feel big.
It’s how we help our children and ourselves build emotional safety from the inside out.
It helps our parents realise they are allowed to have emotions too.
It gives children permission to feel without judgement
We will begin our journey by introducing three of The Emps. As we introduce each new Emp, they will be accompanied by videos, top tips, resources, fact files and Zines. Over the coming weeks and months we will introduce more Emps as we continue our Emping journey together!
You can check out all of The Emps now by heading to The Emp gallery and let us know which Emp you and your family are most looking forward to meeting!
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The latest Top Tips - Meet the latest Emps
Explore the latest Emps and learn how The Emps can support you and your children develop your understanding of emotions. Each Emp is accompanied by latest top tips, resources, a free Zine, videos and much more to support your journey through our wonderful emotional world .
ZigZaggle -Overwhelm
End of school year
With the end of the school year approaching, we know children (and adults) may well be feeling overwhelmed. With the help of Zigzaggle, Dr Nat has some insightful tips and skills to help you navigate what can sometimes feel like a challenging time
Summer holidays approach
As well as the end of school year, it is also the summer holidays. We know that mixed with overwhelm is often the emotion of excitement at the prospect of 6 weeks off school! However, although excitement can be an enjoyable emotion it also has another side to it. With the help of Zestle, Dr Nat explores this emotion and provides new insights, top tips and resources to navigate it.
Zestle - Excitement
Dwello - Boredom
Summer holidays can feel like they stretch for ever
Summer holidays are great fun and a really important chance to reset after the hectic school year. However, as every parent knows Dwello can often pop up! Dr Nat will explore this Emp and ask the question:
“Is boredom the greatest gift we are afraid to give our children?”.
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Coming Soon - which Emps will be introduced next!
Over the next few weeks, we will be introducing more of The Emps as we continue our journey together to explore our emotions. Each Emp will be accompanied by useful tips, guides and resources to help you and your children explore and understand emotions as never before - Happy Emping!
Focusing on the here and now - being in the moment
An often overlooked emotion, contentment is the feeling of “completness” or “enoughness” it is when we feel we truly do have everything we really need right here and now. Contentment is an important part of life long mental health and wellbeing and positively correlated in research with greater life satisfaction and wellbeing. With the help of Mellowmoss, Dr Nat will explore this emotion and provides new insights, top tips and resources.
Mellowmoss - Contentment
Minzo - Envy
I want what they have!
The summer holidays always come with a big dose of envy, especially between siblings. If it seems that your child immediately wants what their sibling or other children have, then you are not alone. With the help of Minzo, we will learn the difference between envy and jealousy and explore some simple methods you can support children to navigate this emotion with new insights, top tips and resources.
Fragyle - Anxiety
Thinking about ‘back to school’ already
Although the summer holidays has just started, we know that for some the anxiety of the new school year can loom large and often affect our enjoyment of the summer. With the help of Fragyle, Dr Nat will explore some simple methods you can support children this navigate this emotion with new insights, top tips and resources.
Meet The Emps!
Visit The Emp gallery to see all of The Emps! Learn more about your favourite Emps by browsing through their fact file and discovering interesting details like how old they are, where they live, their super powers and their secret soft sides!
ZigZaggle
Zestle
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Dwello
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Delve straight in to the latest adventures of The Emps by accessing our videos here
Access videos with insightful tips, skills and resources to help you and your children understand emotions on a much deeper level
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The Emps in Schools!
We are passionate about sharing The Emps far and wide to help develop the emotional wellbeing of all children. We are especially looking for schools to get in touch and learn how you can use our free resources to support all teachers and educators learn more about emotional literacy amongst their pupils. Get in touch via the ‘Contact us’ section if your school wants to find out more about how we can work together to deliver our message.
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