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Persona Dolls

“Life At Home”

For over 20 years we have used this wonderful technique to create extremely engaging and effective curriculum for young children.

Persona Dolls are used to explore a wide range of challenging and important topics:

Fairness and unfairness

Differences in gender, race

Kindness and compassion

Diversity, culture, lifestyle

Problem-solving and resiliency

Collaboration and negotiation

Community responsibility

The Persona Dolls support teachers to:

Address a wide range sensitive and emergent topics

Help children reflect on a situation and create alternative proactive solutions

Give the children new insights and non-shaming ways to process

Expands their emotional and social literacy skills

Give the children different perspectives, tools and strategies to process challenging situations

Help children develop a sense of agency

Develop an inclusive and welcoming classroom

During this 17-part video course, we will recreate different persona doll

scenarios that reflect the important life issues that come up at home.

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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

• Divorce

• Death

• Moving

• New baby or sibling

• New pet

• Parents away from home

• Helping out with household jobs

THIS COURSE WILL ALSO COVER:

• Family illness – (e.g. – cancer)

• Family meetings

• Bossy

• How to say hello to neighbors or friends

• Adoption

• Whining

• Death of a pet

“This workshop was incredible! I appreciate the thoroughness of how and when to use persona dolls with children, your passion and wonderful creativity! I loved the authentic demonstrations of the various scenarios that you shared with us with using the persona dolls.”

-Educator

BONUS MATERIALS

A curated list of children’s books that deal with a variety of subject matters such as death, divorce, new babies and adoption.

A curated list of adult books that deal with a variety of subject matters such as death, divorce, new babies and adoption.

Resource links to help your child deal with grief and other big life issues.

Often children have to process the illness of a family member or a big change in the family. Use our templates to create a book that helps children to process these Important life changes.

Create a book for each persona doll that introduces their family, history, and culture

to your class.

Learn how to support and develop children’s emotional literacy at home and at school.

“I enjoyed everything very much. There was so much information I did not know. I have been in the field for over 25 years and in this approach for the last 5 years, and I learned so much. I am always looking for webinars to enrich myself as a professional.”

-Veronica Hendricks, Teacher

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We offer courses on a wide range of topics from social emotional development as well as strategies and guidance on how to support children and families as we all traverse these challenging times together.

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