WELCOME

Hello and welcome to our wellness kit!

Brighter Futures have created this kit for practitioners working with young migrants. This set of exercises are designed to help support young peoples mental health and wellbeing.

This toolkit has been designed with all young migrants in mind, whether they have a mental health diagnosis or not. It is important to note that this is not a therapeutic guide, but a collection of activities that introduce ways of staying well to young people.

The following activities are short, practical and focused, and have tangible outcomes that allow young people to feel that they have gained skills from the sessions.There is a focus on the future, not the past.

There is a strong emphasis on choice, and the young people should be encouraged to only follow up on techniques they feel suit them in order for them to have choice and control throughout.

You can use the kit however you like, whether as a series of workshops, or just the odd activity that you feel would work well with your group.

This Toolkit has been created and designed in partnership between Praxis and Kazzum Arts

aCTIVITIES

WARM UP GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

The following games and activities are a great way to start a workshop or session. They get young people moving, talking, thinking and focused and can be tailored to any theme, issue or area of work you are planning to cover.

Wellbeing Toolkit Activities

Emotions Bingo

An exercise to gain an understanding of the group dynamics and to encourage young people to share basic feelings and emotions.

Word Race

A great way to start a workshop or session. They get young people moving, talking, thinking and focused and can be tailored to any theme, issue or area of work you are planning to cover.

KNOW YOURSELF

It’s important for both young people who feel well and for those who are struggling to keep a record of their experiences and learning. This enables new knowledge and learning to be used beyond the life span of your workshops.

Wellbeing Toolkit Activities

The Dealing Diagram

To give young people the chance to analyse their day-to-day activities and include new, simple activities that may have a positive impact on their wellbeing.

Identifying Support

To enable young people to understand the support they have and the support they may need

Emotional Chairs

This is a drama-based exercise designed to unravel the difficulties involved with understanding and interpreting emotions.

Map of Me

Sometimes it can be difficult to get an accurate sense of the people and places we move with and in, and the impact they have on us (both positive and negative). By mapping these out, young people can sometimes find clarity and objectivity in knowing what these spaces and people mean to them.

Living Sculptures

This activity gives young people the chance to explore some of the visual markers of low wellbeing

My Journey Journal

To enable young people to map their own progress and reflect on their journey.

CREATIVE EXPRESSIOn

Using activities that focus on creative expression is a great way to approach subjects or themes in an indirect way, allowing young people to safely talk about themselves or their own experiences through an external character or story.

Wellbeing Toolkit Activities

Forum Theatre

To give your young people a chance to practice some of the coping mechanisms developed throughout the toolkit as well as some of their own. These sessions were effective in exploring how our choices and responses to different situations can impact ourselves and those around us.

Shadow Puppetry

To allow young people to create and tell their own stories in a safe space through external metaphor and imagery

A Stressed Out Song

To allow young people to explore the effects of stress through creative writing

The ‘I Am’ Poem

To enable young people to think about themselves as individuals and develop a unique identity.

PEER SUPPORT

We know that peer support is important within wellbeing and found that the main barriers to this happening were people not knowing how to communicate and listen. The below activities focus on ways to listen and share.

Wellbeing Toolkit Activities

Learning to Listen

To give young people a chance to experience and reflect on different types of listening

A Problem Shared…

To introduce the themes of sharing and talking

Tin Can Telephone

To enable young people to listen and have the confidence to ask people to repeat information they don’t understand. To highlight that listening isn’t as simple as we tend to think.

RELAXATION

Relaxation is a valuable component of life that really can improve our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, yet we found that sometimes it can be difficult for young people to know how to relax. So the activities below are focused on simple techniques that enable participants to relax and that they can use anywhere.

Wellbeing Toolkit Activities

Object Focusing

To enable young people to focus and clear their mind

Photo Finding

To enable young people to notice their surroundings and take pleasure from the smaller, everyday things in life

Bedtime Routine

To help young people manage their sleeping patterns

Wellbeing Toolkit

For practitioners working with young migrants struggling with their mental health

WELCOME

Hello and welcome to our wellness kit!

aCTIVITIES

WARM UP GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

KNOW YOURSELF

CREATIVE EXPRESSIOn

PEER SUPPORT

RELAXATION

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