What Emotional Explorers Program Is?
3-month program – Integrating Mindfulness and Emotional Education
Emotional Explorers is a hands-on journey through three fundamental territories of children’s emotional development.
It’s a progressive program that harmoniously integrates Mindfulness and Emotional Education, supporting the holistic growth of girls and boys through a structured, creative, and experiential approach.
Inspired by the ABC model from the Center for Healthy Minds (Attention, Breathing, and Care) and by Rafael Bisquerra’s Emotional Education framework, the program offers a path of personal growth built step by step. At each stage, children learn to understand themselves, self-regulate, and connect with others from a place of presence, kindness, and authenticity.
Each session combines play, creative exploration, reflection, and mindfulness practices, creating a safe and meaningful space to nurture emotional intelligence, awareness, and conscious growth in a way that is natural and adapted to each child’s developmental stage.
The goal is to lay the foundation for a more conscious, balanced life—deeply connected to oneself and the surrounding world.
On this journey, mindfulness is the sail of our ship: presence, attitude, and awareness are what hold everything together. It is the practice that anchors us in the present, connects us with our body, our emotions, and our thoughts, and allows us to observe what happens inside and outside of us—without judgment.
Emotional education is the rudder, it is the set of skills we gradually develop to understand, regulate, and express our emotions, relate to others empathetically, and build a strong sense of self-worth.
Emotional Explorers
This program proposes a progressive 3-month journey, where children grow module by module—learning to know themselves, self-regulate, and connect with others from a place of presence, kindness, and authenticity. Through play, creative exploration, reflection, and mindfulness practices, each session becomes a chance to nurture emotional intelligence. With an experiential approach, we invite children on a journey to discover their inner world.
It is an experience that plants the seeds of a more conscious, connected, and emotionally healthy life in children and their families.
Foundational Models & Age Groups
ABC Model from the Center for Healthy Minds (Attention, Breathing, Care)
Emotional Education Model by Rafael Bisquerra
Age Groups
3 to 5 years old – 6 to 9 years old – 10 to 13 years old
Program Structure
Total Duration: 3 months.
Structure: 3 modules, 4 sessions per module.
Frequency: 1 weekly session of approximately 90 minutes.
Format: Private extracurricular workshop, with a maximum of 15 children.
Locations: Yoga centers or other calm and welcoming spaces.
Parent Talks: At the beginning of each module, parents attend a 30-minute informative session where key concepts of the upcoming module are explained—so they can support their children at home.
Structure of the Three Emotional Territories
Territory of Attention
We cultivate mindfulness, learning to be present and to observe our inner world with curiosity and without judgment.
- Breathing techniques
- Conscious movement
- Exploration of the body and senses
- Body scan of physical sensations
- Emotional awareness
Territory of Emotions
Focuses on the attention and regulation of thoughts and emotions, encouraging self-care and kindness toward oneself through concrete self-regulation strategies.
- Mindful awareness of thoughts
- Mindful attention to emotions and sensations
- Recognition and identification of emotions
- Self-regulation and emotional expression
- Emotional autonomy
- Everything I feel is welcome
Territory of Connection
Focuses on the relationship with oneself as a foundation for building healthy connections. We strengthen self-esteem and self-motivation, along with social skills like empathy, active listening, assertive communication, and kindness.
- Being kind to oneself and others
- The inner critic and the “kindness committee”
- Mindful speaking and listening
- Empathy and assertiveness
- Conflict resolution
- Core values and life habits