Neuroaffirming Emotional Regulation Resources & Programs
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🚀✨ Meet the Ready Rocket Kids Workshop: a therapy program designed to make a powerful impact in your clinical practice.
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Neuroaffirming & Inclusive Programs for Schools
🎨💫 Discover Engaging, Inclusive Programs to Teach Emotional Regulation Skills in the Classroom
Shop for SchoolsLove the ready rocket though., so clever combining all the sensory, engine speed, interception and co-regulation/parenting we do into one structure. I'm tending to use it as a basis for most of my kids/families now regardless of which one of those areas I'm mostly focussing on, and it's great to be able to direct parents to getting their own copy, whether that's because of limited funds for number of private sessions or complex ongoing needs for the NDIS kiddies. And love being able to tell families it's developed by some of our local talented Perth OTs. So impressed!
I've been using the Ready Rocket program every day in my sessions and for good reason! What's even better? They offer the online workshop if you are wanting to upskill in emotional understanding and regulation. These tools are accessible, effective and designed to make a difference.
I just love the really intentional choices used throughout the Galaxy Guide... If you're looking for a resource for interoception, self-regulation, or sensory processing strategies, that's kid-friendly and easily accessible and fun themed, I really feel like The Galaxy Guide to Running my Rocket is a fabulous resource to have.
super in-depth covering all factors in such an easy way to understand. i liked how many sections you included theories and other leading professionals in that specific field to explain the evidence and recommendations behind it
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Neuroaffirming Emotional Regulation Programs & Resources for Therapists
Neuroscience-informed tools for OTs, psychologists, speech pathologists and allied health, for individual or group therapy.
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Emotional Regulation Resources for Home Learning
Neuroscience-informed activities that build your child's confidence, resilience and self-awareness at home.
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Neuroaffirming Emotional Regulation Programs for Classrooms
Classroom programs that build emotional awareness and self-regulation, inclusively.
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Ready Rocket Therapy Program License
$599.95
The Ready Rocket Therapy Program License is an all-in-one, ready-to-deliver emotional regulation program for occupati...
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Foundations of Emotional Regulation: Therapist Professional Development Workshop | Ready Rocket Resources
$142.99
Self-paced online therapist professional development | 6.5 hours | 77 videos, reflective clinical questions and case ...
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The Galaxy Guide to Running My Rocket (Story & Regulation Strategies)
$60.45
Meet your child's new favourite emotions pack, helping them become the captain of their own rocket! 🚀Explore The Gala...
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The Reframing Behaviour Therapist Pack
$43.99
Support families to understand behaviour through a nervous system lens.
The Reframing Behaviour Therapist Pack brings...
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Stress Response Deep Dive: Fight, Flight, Freeze & Fawn Learning Pack
$21.99
Welcome to the Deeper Dive Series - Resources that expand on concepts discussed in The Galaxy Guide to Running My Roc...
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Ready Rocket Regulation Strategy Flashcard Deck | Emotional Regulation Cards for Children | Ages 5-12
$54.99
The Ready Rocket Charging Challenges Flashcard Deck is a physical card deck for children aged 5-12 and the adults who...
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Clinical Supervision Session with Bella & Tash from Ready Rocket Resources
$180.00
Clinical Supervision Session with Bella & Tash from Ready Rocket Resources
Are you looking for a supportive space...
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Neuroaffirming Inclusive Listening Poster Pack
$9.99
🌟 Neuroaffirming Inclusive Listening Poster Pack by Ready Rocket Resources 🌟
It’s important to consider that “Whole ...
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Ready Rocket Gift Card
$49.99
Give the gift of emotional wellbeing! A Ready Rocket Resources gift card is perfect for parents, schools, and therapi...
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All About Emotions - Parents Online Emotions Workshop
$54.99
🌟✨ Calling all parents 🚀🎉
Is your child struggling with their emotions? 😢😡
Do you need practical strategies to su...
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The Essential Family Pack
$43.99
Families, bring emotional regulation to life at home with the Essential Family Pack!
Created by Senior Paediatric Occ...
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Ages 3-4: Ready Rocket School Learning Program
$548.90
The Ready Rocket School Learning Program for Ages 3-4 (Preschool / Kindy) is a fully resourced 8-week neuroaffirming ...
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Ages 4-5: Ready Rocket School Learning Program
$603.79
This is for the first year of full-time school with students turning 5.
State equivalents: Kindergarten (NSW, ACT)...
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Ages 5-6: Ready Rocket School Learning Program
$548.90
Ready Rocket Emotional Regulation Program - Year One
Empower Year One Students to Develop Real Emotional Skills in a ...
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Ages 6-7: Ready Rocket School Learning Program
$548.90
Ready Rocket Emotional Regulation Program - Year Two
Empower Year Two Students to Develop Real Emotional Skills in ...
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Customised School Bundle Expression of Interest - Ready Rocket School Learning Program
$0.00
Customised Early Years Emotional Regulation School Bundle EOI Empower your students to develop real emotional skills ...
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Emotional Regulation Articles for Therapists, Parents & Teachers
Why Reward Charts Don't Teach Emotional Regulation (and What Does)
Why don't reward charts teach emotional regulation? Senior Paediatric OTs explain what actually builds lasting regulation skills in children.
Why Reward Charts Don't Teach Emotional Regulation (and What Does)
Why Reward Charts Don't Teach Emotional Regulation (and What Does)
The Skill We Rarely Teach Kids Directly as Occupational Therapists - Noticing Dysregulation Before It Lands
Occupational therapists and allied health professionals often teach calming strategies before children can recognise they need one. This article breaks down the clinical sequence behind emotional regulation, from interoceptive awareness...
The Skill We Rarely Teach Kids Directly as Occupational Therapists - Noticing Dysregulation Before It Lands
The Skill We Rarely Teach Kids Directly as Occupational Therapists - Noticing Dysregulation Before It Lands
Your Child Isn’t Being Dramatic With Their Meltdowns. Their Body Is Talking First. Here’s What Will Help.
Wondering why your child's meltdowns seem to come out of nowhere? Senior Paediatric OTs explain what their body is signalling first, why one calming strategy never works for every child,...
Your Child Isn’t Being Dramatic With Their Meltdowns. Their Body Is Talking First. Here’s What Will Help.
Your Child Isn’t Being Dramatic With Their Meltdowns. Their Body Is Talking First. Here’s What Will Help.
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 they're 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 arousal levels, emotions and meaningful tools 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 kids can control: Our pack uses the imagery of a rocket to help kids navigate their changing emotions, travelling to different planets that reflect their arousal levels. No planet is "better" than another; we're deliberate about this. Think of the planets as the nervous system state, and emotions as the weather moving across it, which opens up individualised conversations about each child's own experience. We also explore how arousal levels shift fluidly across the day (even within the same activity!), helping kids build a real understanding of their emotional ups and downs, rather than a rigid "good feeling, bad feeling" system.
- ⭐ The Star Controller puts kids in the driver's seat: This visual tool helps children regulate their "emotional daily flight path," building greater control and independence as they learn to move through different emotional states.
- 🌟 We start with needs, not behaviour: Planet Zonk covers hunger, thirst, fatigue, toileting, safety, connection and sensory needs, exploring how unmet internal needs show up as emotions and behaviour.
- 💫 We name shame and shutdown directly: A dedicated part of the galaxy explores shame, guilt, embarrassment and regret, drawing on Brené Brown's research and translating it into child-friendly language, so these emotions are normalised, not hidden from.
- 🧠 We teach the science behind big feelings: Including thinking brain vs. feeling brain concepts and co-regulation practices, so kids understand what's actually happening in their body.
- 🌌 Built for all neurotypes: We incorporate both top-down and bottom-up approaches to emotion processing, so the program adapts to suit different kids.
Our goal? Supporting kids on their journey from co-regulation to confident self-regulation, one planet at a time. 🚀
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 name & DOB
- Participant address
- NDIS number
- Plan dates
- Plan manager name and contact details
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 on supporting children to navigate 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 experience 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 take concepts from the books alongside further activities, modelling, discussions 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 Therapy Program License. Is this used for running groups?
The Ready Rocket Therapy Program 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 delivery high quality therapy sessions either in face-to-face format or via telehealth.
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