Children's Emotions and Mood

About the deck

A deck about a child’s inner weather: where the sun is now, where the fog is, and where a storm is gathering.

The deck holds 80 metaphorical associative cards with painted landscapes and weather states that carry a child’s feelings, sensations and mood in particular situations.

Weather is a convenient and safe metaphor: it is hard for a child to say “I feel anxious around my father”, but easy to point at a card with a storm and explain why that one.

The deck works with the inner state: it diagnoses how things feel in a particular situation with particular people, and then helps change the state to one that fits better and gives resource.

The deck also suits grown-ups working on the inner child, and it works well as a quick diagnosis at the start and at the end of a meeting.

The deck can be used as a deep diagnostic, clarifying, deepening, resourcing and supporting tool in counseling, therapy and psychological transformation games. It works within the “Children's World” series, on its own, and as a deepening tool in the game of the same name.

With the “Children's Emotions and Mood” deck you can

• diagnose a child’s current state without asking direct questions
• understand the reasons a particular mood arises
• see which event or person sets off a particular emotion
• understand more deeply the feelings a child cannot put into words
• show the child their own state as if in a mirror
• find the resource for change inside the picture itself
• replace an unwanted state with an acceptable one
• see how states differ with different people and in different places
• understand how mood changes through the day and what it depends on
• teach a child to influence their state instead of enduring it

Questions to ask the deck

Work starts from these questions. Choose one, the one that speaks to you more strongly than the rest, and work with it, because only one state is opened up well in a single meeting.

1. What am I feeling right now?
2. What do I feel when I talk with this person?
3. What do I feel when I end up in this situation?
4. What will I feel once the question is settled in the best way?
5. How do I correct my state?
6. Which state would suit me in this situation?
7. What do I need to change to make it easier?
8. Which three heavy states do I need to remove?
9. Which three good states do I need to learn to grow in myself?
10. What is the weather inside me at school?
11. What is the weather at home?
12. Which weather would be the very best for me?

The whole series

“Children's World” is 8 decks that work as a single system: fears and complexes, behaviour patterns, habits, beliefs, feelings, emotions and mood, abilities and teen motivation.

See the whole series →