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Frequently asked questions
What is the recommended age range for your resources?
Our resources have been designed for children aged 5 to 12 years, but it's versatile enough to be adapted for younger children too. This means that siblings can also join in on the fun and benefit from the activities and basic concepts included in the resources It's a great opportunity for children of different ages to learn and grow together! 🌟🚀
The Ready Rocket School Learning Program has been designed alongside the Australian school curriculum and recommended ages are found for each individual program. Please head to our shop page for more details.
What does The Galaxy Guide emotions pack include?
The Galaxy Guide to Running My Rocket emotions pack includes:
📚 The Galaxy Guide: An action-packed story that introduces children to various emotions to unlock their emotional potential.
💡 The Charging Challenges: Engaging activities with 100+ science-backed & ready-to-go strategies.
🌈 Therapist top tips for supporting your child through big emotions.
💬 Helpful prompts throughout the story to stop and reflect with your child.
🤝 Parent support from our therapy team that guides you at the start of the book.
✅ An activity tracker at the end of Book One that promotes independence and allows your child to rate helpful strategies.
How are your resources different to other emotional regulation tools?
Thank you for choosing Ready Rocket Resources!
We understand that you may have questions about what sets our emotions pack apart from other well-known tools.
Here's what makes Ready Rocket Resources unique:
🚀 Rocket Imagery: Our pack uses the imagery of a rocket to help children navigate their changing emotions. As they encounter different situations throughout the day, they learn to control their rocket and travel to different planets that correspond to the arousal level of each emotion. This empowers children to understand and manage their emotions with a sense of control and agency.
⭐ Star Controller: Our pack includes a visual concept called the Star Controller, which helps children regulate their "emotional daily flight path." This tool enables children to have greater control over their emotions and develop the skills to move through different emotional states with supported independence.
🌟 Whole Child Approach: We recognise that a child's internal needs play a significant role in emotional regulation. Beyond observable emotions, we address important factors such as hunger, tiredness, physical comfort, and safety. By considering the whole child, our pack provides a comprehensive approach to emotional regulation that fosters a deeper understanding of internal needs.
With The Galaxy Guide to Running My Rocket and associated programs, we aim to support children in transitioning from co-regulation, where full adult support is needed, to greater independence in self-regulation. By addressing the unique needs of each child and providing scaffolded support, our pack facilitates growth and development in emotional regulation. 🌌🚀
What makes your resources neuroaffirming?
'Neurodiversity-Affirming' celebrates the unique ways in which we think, feel, and relate to others. In this resource, we aim to normalise the experience of a wide range of emotions for children, removing the focus on 'expected' and 'unexpected' behaviours or trying to escape from certain emotional states. 🌈🧠
Instead, we celebrate and embrace who we are, acknowledging our diverse thoughts and feelings, while providing children with the tools to:
Cultivate a sense of safety and security within themselves, addressing their internal interoceptive needs before expecting them to regulate their emotions. 🌟✨
Engage in problem-solving by recognizing and interpreting their internal body cues, helping them navigate their emotions. 🔍
Identify and label their emotions, equipping them with enjoyable strategies to navigate through different emotional states. 🎭💬
Gain a deeper understanding of how their bodies respond to emotional overload and learn child-friendly ways to express and manage these experiences. 🌊💪
By embracing neurodiversity, we empower children to embrace their unique selves and thrive in a world that celebrates their individuality. 🌈🚀
Are your resources and programs specifically intended for neurodivergent kids?
The "Galaxy Guide to Running My Rocket" is not exclusively designed for neurodivergent children. Ready Rocket Resources understands that children process emotions differently.
For some children, they process emotional responses from a Top Down approach (starting with the big picture of an emotion and then breaking it down into smaller details), while for other children, they process emotional responses from a Bottom Up approach (beginning with specific details of sensory-specific feelings and gradually building up to a bigger understanding of the emotion or emotions that they are experiencing).
Our resources include discussion around both forms of processing in a child-friendly manner to make the concepts inclusive of different neurotypes. The overall content is accessible and beneficial for any child learning about emotional regulation and the way their body and brain individually respond to emotions, as everyone's processing and regulation skills are different!
Our resources and programs aim to create child-friendly language around moving through different emotions in our day and what happens when we enter bigger emotions, inclusive of neurodiversity.
I would like to purchase your resources through my child's NDIS plan. Can I do this? What are the steps?
While our resources (both "The Galaxy Guide to Running My Rocket" and the Online Emotions Workshop) can be used as therapy resources, we are unable to provide a definitive yes or no to this question as it is dependent on each participant's plan.
We would recommend that you contact your LAC/ Planner to request if your child's funding can be used to purchase our resources ("The Galaxy Guide to Running My Rocket" books and/or emotional regulation online workshop for parents).
If our resources have been approved by your LAC/planner for purchase, please follow these steps:
1. Purchase the resources in our Ready Rocket Shop.
2. In the comments/notes section when purchasing, please add in these details:- Participant Full Name- Participant NDIS Number- Participant Plan Start and End Dates
3. Upon purchase, you will receive an automatic invoice. However, we will follow up and send through a paid invoice with your child's above details. There may be some delay in receiving this as we will need to add this in manually.
4. You can then send this through to your planner or lodge if you are self-managed.
Please reach out to us if you have any further questions about this.
Are your resources used for behaviour management?
The Galaxy Guide to Running My Rocket is not a behaviour management system. We have developed our resources to be used as learning tools for supporting understanding of emotional awareness.
Behaviour management is the process of supporting learners to make positive choices that are conducive to learning. In the past, behaviour management was viewed as a way of disciplining students so that they were more likely to conform to the standards expected of them. These days, attitudes have shifted towards a more positive and supportive way of managing behaviour. However, behaviour management tools can be misunderstood and used in a way to restrict or change healthy regulation strategies that don't conform to what might be "expected".
Our resources have been developed to focus around supporting children to individualised emotional processing, individualised sensory processing and individualised interoceptive experiences to learn safe regulation strategies. The resources aim to provide discussion around what happens when children enter different emotions and corresponding arousal levels with the aim to spark child-friendly explanation around dysregulation, what happens in these heightened states and emphasis on co-regulating with a trusted person.
The Galaxy Guide individual books are not recommended for classroom use. The Ready Rocket School Learning Program has been designed to takes concepts from the books alongside further activity, discussion and deeper dives into emotional regulation concepts to support learning in the classroom environment. Please take a look at our resources for schools for more information about our dedicated neuroaffirming school programs.
I am a therapist interested in the Ready Rocket Kids Workshop License. Is this used for running groups?
The Ready Rocket Kids Workshop is a therapy program has been designed for therapists running individual, therapy dyads or group sessions.
The programs contains a range of additional materials to ensure therapists are deliviery high quality therapy sessions either in face-to-face format or via telehealth.
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