Purrble & SEL: Calm Hearts, Calm Minds

Funded Dec 4, 2024

Thank you so much for your generous donations for my project "Purrble & SEL: Calm Hearts, Calm Minds". The goal of this project was to help students identify within their own selves - inside their own bodies - when a big feeling was activating 'emotion signals' inside of them. The Purrbles were designed to emulated the human heart both at rest and regulated AND a rapid heart rate when disregulated.

The ability for them to hold a soft interactive device to truly feel the difference between a regulated heart and a disregulated heart is meant to help them better understand how their OWN precious heart can react to events in life. Kids LOVED it!

Once we feel the fast heartbeat of the Purbble - we can then try some soothing techniques to calm and regulate the Purrble. This tool helps me - the school counselor - begin to introduce a variety of coping skills to students. These coping skills, including several breathing techniques are now skills they can try when they begin to notice feeling disregulated and a more rapid heart beat. The breath that seemed most popular for calming thier own hearts was a box breath, count of 4.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Brown