Extracurricular Programming
Help your students grow and explore their social and emotional knowledge and skills with our extra-curricular in-school and after-school programs.
Social & Emotional Learning Extracurricular Programming
Help your students grow and explore their social and emotional knowledge and skills with our extra-curricular in-school and after-school programs.
Utilizing games, activities, challenges, and experiential debriefs and discussions, students will get to explore how to identify, process, and regulate their emotions, interact with themselves and their peers, and practice skills that will help them move forward on their path to being emotionally mature and successful individuals.
Our skilled instructors will arrive at your site with all necessary equipment, taking the stress and hassle out of offering high-quality extracurricular activities for your organization.
Activity Examples
Simon Says
Look at what mistakes are, how we interpret them, and either learn and grow or get discouraged and give up. We also look at how our expectations and anticipation of a situation can impact our actions and decisions. And what it’s like to share space with someone whose actions don’t match their words.
Team Tarp Drop
Understand and recognize how emotions may look different on individual people, but have core common elements that we can be aware for
Shun the Low Card
Explore what it’s like to be at different levels of the social ladder due to factors beyond our control
Count Off
Understand factors that add pressure to even simple situations or tasks, peer pressure, and co-ownership of failure or success.
Tank
Explore how our assumption that someone is seeing from a similar perspective to ours can hamper effective communication and increase stress. What assumptions do we make when communicating with others, especially in higher stress situations?
Red Light, Green Light
Maintain social awareness, self-awareness of our own patterns, and how they either help or hurt the team.
Reach For Your Goals
Create collaborative problem solving strategies, identifying the strengths of individuals within a group, relying on and trusting group support to achieve something out of reach individually.
Is This A Knot?
Understanding the differences between collaborative/persuasive/aggressive styles of communication in problem solving. Take the time to look at a problem from another’s perspective with an open mind.
Giant Body
Students learn to associate the conceptual idea of their emotions with how they somatically manifest in their own bodies, and learn how others may experience them in a similar or different way.
The CASEL Framework
SELF-A programs are based around the CASEL Framework. The foundational pillars of which are:
Self Awareness
The ability to understand and reflect on one’s own emotions, thoughts, values, and how these factors influence behavior in various situations. This involves recognizing personal strengths and limitations while maintaining a grounded sense of confidence and purpose.
Self Management
The ability to recognize one’s emotional state and how it affects their thoughts and behaviors. As this awareness grows, individuals can also develop the skills to effectively transition between emotional states, manage stress, cultivate internal motivation, and develop a sense of personal agency to accomplish personal and collective goals.
Relationship Skills
The ability to build and maintain healthy, supportive relationships and effectively interact with diverse individuals and groups. This includes skills in clear communication, setting expectations and boundaries, active listening, cooperation, collaborative problem-solving, and constructive conflict resolution (including taking personal accountability and properly apologizing). It also involves navigating environments with varying social and cultural expectations, providing leadership, and knowing when and how to seek or offer help.
Social Awareness
The ability to understand and empathize with others, including those from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and contexts. This involves feeling compassion for others, recognizing the broader historical and social norms that shape behavior in different settings, and identifying available resources and supports within family, school, and community environments.
Decision Making
The ability to make thoughtful and constructive choices regarding personal behavior and social interactions in a variety of situations. This involves considering ethical standards, safety, and understanding the potential benefits and consequences of actions for individual, social, and collective well-being.
Somatic Engagement
We recognize these can be challenging topics for holding the attention of youth, so we make sure that each lesson is delivered through a combination of active games, cognitive and emotional exercises, and shared discussions with only one or two target take-aways each time. Whereas many programs spend much of their time with the students sitting and talking, or watching content on a screen, SELF-A believes that we learn best through play and movement.
While any lesson can be told, the ones that are best remembered are the ones that are discovered for themselves.
In each class, students get to learn a concept, explore and practice it through facilitated games and activities, and then are guided to find their own ways in which to apply that concept to their own lives.