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 C: Feeling Good with Mo and Ko (1st Class / Ages: 6-7+)

1. To increase children’s understanding of the following 16 emotions (many of which are explored at previous levels) grouped in the image of a Feelings Wheel under the following 4 headings:
   • Happy – calm, proud, excited and confident
   • Sad – disappointed, lonely, miserable and embarrassed
   • Angry – annoyed, jealous, furious and frustrated
   • Afraid – worried, terrified, anxious and frightened
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 the following positive emotions:
   • Pride
   • Calm
   • Gratitude
   • Joy
   • Love
   • Interest
   • Hope
4. To provide children with the opportunity to regulate and express strong feelings
5. To introduce children to the idea of Character Strengths such as bravery, love, kindness, fairness, gratitude, zest, perseverance and teamwork
6. To promote feelings of self-confidence, self-compassion and self-worth through the concept of being ‘good enough’
7. To promote resilience and self-efficacy through giving children strategies to deal with their strong emotions and everyday problems
8. To develop pro-social relationships through encouraging empathy, acts of kindness and appropriate expression of emotions
9. To give children the opportunity to explore the links between their physical, mental, social and emotional well-being through the concept of developing awareness of their physical energy
   and how they can influence it