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
5-8 years old – 9 to 12 years old
Program Structure
Total Duration: 3 months.
Structure: 3 modules, 4 sessions per module.
Frequency: 1 weekly session of approximately 90 minutes.
Format: After-school workshop, with a maximum of 10 children per group.
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
The Territory of Attention
In this first territory, children develop mindful attention — learning to listen to their bodies and recognize how their breath and sensations shift with each experience.
It marks the beginning of their emotional exploration: an authentic, transformative journey to better understand their inner world.
Main contents:
- Breathing techniques to calm and focus the mind.
- Conscious movement to inhabit the body with serenity.
- Sensory exploration with curiosity and presence.
- Body scan to identify physical sensations.
- Emotional awareness of basic emotions.
The Territory of Emotions
In this territory, children deepen their self-awareness, learning to observe their thoughts and emotions with mindful attention.
They advance in emotional recognition and expression, exploring self-regulation strategies that help them return to calm whenever they need it.
Here, they discover the importance of self-care and kindness toward themselves, integrating mindfulness as an extraordinary tool to cultivate serenity and inner confidence.
Main contents:
- Mindful attention to thoughts.
- Mindful awareness of emotions and sensations.
- Emotional regulation and healthy expression.
- Emotional autonomy.
- Everything I feel is welcome.
The Territory of Connection
In this territory, children discover how to build healthy and meaningful relationships, understanding that the way we connect with ourselves is the foundation for connecting with others.
We nurture self-esteem and self-motivation, along with the social skills that help children adapt to their environment: empathy, active listening, assertive communication, and kindness as a way of life.
All of these become the fertile ground for cultivating authentic, lasting friendships
Main contents:
- 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