Ask participants to pair up.

Translate and ensure the translation of emotions, using the list opposite if necessary

• Ask them to say "hello" to their partner in 3 different ways. If they need help, remind them that they can use verbal words, written text, their body, a gesture, or even do something creative.
• Then ask them to communicate a feeling to their partner. Give examples of feelings: sad, angry, happy, excited, jealous, confused, worried, .... The other partner will guess the feeling he describes. For example, if their feeling was "sad", they might say or write "I feel sad", make a facial expression or show with their body how they feel.

Remind participants that being clear and concise in their verbal and non-verbal communication is an important life skill that needs to be practiced.

• If you have time, have the participants make a trombinoscope of emotions

CONCRETELY :

• What are the different ways of expressing yourself that you used in this game?

FOR FURTHER :

• Are there emotions that you find good and others bad?

#emotions #share

• Emotions: Life charges us with emotions. They are good for us, they help us react better to different situations in our lives. Without these emotions, we could not live.

For example, without "fear", we would not run away from the lion, it would end up eating us!

• Emotion overload: Sometimes emotions overwhelm us, that's the danger. We can feel overwhelmed by emotions and can no longer manage to get out of it. A first job to do, quite simply, is to name these emotions to someone other than ourselves. Putting a word helps to understand.
• Connecting: Above all, it allows others to understand us. If we don't say how we feel, especially when emotions overwhelm us, others don't understand us. We feel betrayed, excluded, misunderstood, when a word would suffice to make ourselves better understood. This is the difference between non-verbal language (important but sometimes difficult to understand) and verbal language (clearer and clearer).

Good advice: Don't run away from your emotions, put the right words on them to describe them!