The Welcome to Well-Being programme is a multi-year programme for children from Junior Infants to First Class (Ages: 4-7+). It is designed to enhance children’s well-being across all dimensions – social, emotional, spiritual, physical and mental.

Specific Aims of this level: Welcome to Well-Being – Book B: Good to be Me with Mo and Ko (Senior Infants / Ages: 5-6)

1. To increase children’s understanding of 14 specific emotions including happiness, sadness, worry, calm, frustration and confidence
2. To encourage children to accept and express all of their emotions in a positive way and to understand that emotions show us what is important to us
3. To provide children with the opportunity to up-regulate positive emotions including gratitude, calm, kindness and joy
4. To provide children with the opportunity to regulate and express strong feelings including worry
5. To introduce children to the idea of Character Strengths such as bravery, love, kindness, fairness and gratitude through the concept of the qualities of their ‘Best Self’
6. To promote feelings of self-confidence and self-worth
7. To promote resilience and self-efficacy through giving children strategies to deal with their strong emotions
8. To develop pro-social relationships through developing empathy, encouraging acts of kindness and appropriate expression of emotions