The Counselor Starter Pack equips counselors, educators, and interventionists with essential and effective tools to support students during difficult times. The lessons, activities, and resources within these units promote self-expression, teach skills that support stress relief, and offer opportunities for coping and processing big events in children’s life- like grief and loss and family change. This set is the perfect collection for educators and counselors looking to engage individual students or whole classrooms that need some extra support. 

• Creatures and Big Books:
• Sprite Plush & Sprite Offers Comfort Big Book
• Lynx Plush & Lynx Sets Boundaries Big Book
• Fox Plush & Fox, Your Love Stays The Same Big Book
• Alpaca Plush & Alpaca Holds Your Worries Big Book
  
  
• Digital Unit Plans:
• Grief & Loss with Sprite Unit Plan:
• Letters to educators and caregivers to support a student after the loss of a loved one
• Primer on Grief, including 10 Facts about Children and Grief, Facilitating Grief Work, and Covid Considerations
• Activities with guidance, facilitator prompts, reflection questions, and extensions to support each individual child experiencing grief
• Additional resources to support children experiencing the loss of a loved one
• Self-Expression with Lynx Unit Plan:
• Lesson 1: Introduction to Lynx and Self-Expression
• Lesson 2: Learning to trust and listen to one’s own inner voice
• Lesson 3: Expressing one’s own inner voice and using words to advocate for oneself
• Lesson 4: Naming and expressing boundaries and respecting the boundaries of others
• Change with Fox Unit Plan:
• Lesson 1: Introduction to Fox and Change
• Lesson 2: Exploring changes and transitions of all sizes
• Lesson 3: Learning to cope with change and transitions
• Lesson 4: Identifying people to support us with big feelings
• Stress Relief with Alpaca:
• Lesson 1: Introduction to Alpaca and Stress Relief
• Lesson 2: Understanding how bodies respond to stress
• Lesson 3: Exploring our unique stress responses
• Lesson 4: Problem solving and developing coping skills for stress
  

*These unit plans are digital downloads only.