Life Journey Work Resources

Family

There are so many ways to support your child with understanding and exploring their life story. This section provides tools, activities, ideas and information to support you in answering your child's questions, supporting your child with their emotions that come from exploring their life story and helping them to make sense of potentially difficult information. 

Family

Life story examples and ideas

Explore practical examples and activities to help your child understand and explore their life story. These resources include family trees, life journey timelines, and example life stories. Alongside ideas to support conversations about family, relationships and early experiences.

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Family

Support with emotions

Find practical resources to help your child recognise, understand and manage their feelings and emotions. This collection includes emotion cards, calming activities, a feelings chart and book recommendations to support children in developing emotional awareness and finding ways to feel calm and regulated.

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Therapeutic creative stories library

Explore a collection of creative stories designed to help children explore feelings, relationships, change and transitions. These gentle, engaging stories can provide opportunities to talk about experiences, make sense of difficult feelings and support children through times of change.

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Other Useful Resources

Explore a selection of additional resources to support adopters and children at different stages of their life journey. This collection includes recommended books and films, guidance on children’s understanding of time, and resources to help children talk about their experiences and feelings.

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