Group Session Structure Each group session will start with a gathering and welcome song, where each friend can introduce themselves in a playful way and share a part of themselves with the group.  - The ritual of starting each session with a check-in provides the experience of expanding social skills, empathy, and respect, and the experiences brings the group into resonance with one another. Through the use of play therapy techniques, friends will learn about primary feelings, discuss what each feels like inside their body, and then practice, with their parent, strategies for allowing the feeling to come and go. - Noticing a feeling in the body is a skill. Then, having the language to talk about it with a parent gives the parent-child team the ability to manage these emotions in an effective and healthy way when they arise at home.  The session will end with a farewell song and sending each other off with thoughts of love and togetherness. - Expressing loving kindness has been demonstrated to increase positive feelings, such as love, joy, and appreciation, and our closing gathering brings the experience full circle, leaving the kids in resonance as they depart.