Table 1 Contents of the Emotion Coaching Group Programme
Session | Theme (Each theme is applied for 2 h every week) | Performance objective Participants will: | Contents | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | What is emotion coaching? | • Increase their understanding of the programme • Increase their willingness to participate in the programme | • Pre-test • Introduction of group programme progress and facilitators • Importance of emotions • Definition and principles of emotion coaching • Set collective rules • Sharing motivation for participation and expectations for the programme | Small-group lecture and talk |
2 | How about my parenting style? | • Identify their parenting style • Understand the impact of meta-emotion on parenting • Practice the three-step self-soothing method | • Types of parenting styles and own parenting styles • Relation between meta-emotion and parenting style • Meta-emotion check • Three-step self-regulation (heart breathing) • Task: emotion diary to maintain composure, exercise | Small-group lecture and practice |
3 | Emotion coaching step 1_ Be aware of your child’s emotion | • Verbally express the relation between attachment loss and smart device overdependence • Express the confidence to apply step 1 of emotion coaching | • Importance of attachment • Side effects of overdependence on smart devices • Play for attachment formation • Step 1 of emotion coaching • Meaning of “accept all the child’s feelings but modify the behaviour” • Various human emotions and their importance • Capturing emotions through facial expressions (practice) | Small-group lecture Group activity |
4 | Emotion coaching step 2_ Recognize your child’s expression of emotion as a perfect moment for intimacy and teaching | • Understand the developmental characteristics of preschool children • Appropriately apply the second stage of emotion coaching to the situation | • Developmental and behavioural characteristics of preschool children • Step 2 of emotion coaching • Sharing moments of emotions you want to avoid, capturing coaching moments • Skills required for emotion control (control of volume, tone, and speed of voice) | |
5 | Emotion coaching step 3_ Listen with empathy and validate your child’s feelings | • Practice by understanding the attitude for step 3 of emotion coaching • Participants understand and apply the delivery method | • Step 3 of emotion coaching • Importance of empathy and the skill of active listening in emotion coaching • I-massage (practice) | Small-group lecture Group activity |
6 | Emotion coaching step 4_ Help your child learn to label their emotions with words Emotion coaching step 5_ Set limits when you are helping your child solve problems or deal with upsetting situations appropriately | • Understand and apply steps 4 and 5 of emotion coaching | • Effect of step 4 of emotion coaching • Helping children express their emotions • Effects of five steps of emotion coaching • How to apply the five steps of emotion coaching using role play • Unsuitable situations during emotion coaching application | Small-group lecture Group activity |
7 | Intensive emotion coaching training | • Identify and improve the factors that cause difficulty in applying the five steps of emotion coaching | • Desirable emotion coaching practice strategy • Comprehensive application of the five steps of emotion coaching | Small-group lecture Group activity |
8 | I’m a good mom | • Discover yourself growing through emotion coaching and design a positive future | • Preparation for change (my life curve viewed with emotion, what I felt through the programme, what changed, words of praise to me, hopes and commitments for the future) • Resilience • Sending thanks to one another • Termination of group programme • Post-test | Group activity |