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A little over a month ago the ground of La Palma was rumbling and from the jaws of the Cumbre Vieja mountain an incandescent lava began to gush out that would erase with a stroke of a pen, we later learned, the projects and hopes of thousands of locals. A daily chronicle then began, presented by all types of media, which would bathe each Spanish home in an intense and shiny red, scorching despite the distance.
The days go by and it continues to roar, the telluric force remains and the volca Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data no does not exhaust itself. It regurgitates and adds buried homes, scorched crops and sucked schools. And from La Palma they shout that they have lost everything. The heat of the volcano has ignited the discouragement, uneasiness and melancholy of the palm trees. And especially their children and adolescents, who experience first-hand a situation that surpasses them and that has a direct impact on their emotional health.
Unfortunately, the forces of nature are unstoppable but the strength of the little ones to overcome is moldable. Their resilience too. Psychological support, now more necessary than ever for La Palma childhood, can help calm a little all those burns - internal - caused by the inexhaustible lava.
Precisely with that spirit, to alleviate the concerns of the youngest, Educo has launched an emotional support project for children in coordination with the Mojo de Caña Association . This project, ready to start as soon as air quality improves and there is no risk to health, is carried out with the students of CEIP Todoque and CEIP Los Campitos. Almost 80% of these boys and girls have lost their homes and 30% of their families, their main source of income.
Manage the emotions you are experiencing
“When a catastrophe like this occurs, stress, anxiety, insecurity or fear increases for everyone, including children, who are more vulnerable to these situations. The traumatic events they are experiencing affect their learning, their physical health and their mental health and can have negative consequences on their future. Therefore, we have to work with them to manage the emotions they are experiencing,” says Pilar Orenes, general director of Educo.
It is not always easy to manage emotions; throughout everyone's life, they can overwhelm us and drown us, leaving us very touched. It is important to discern and recognize that although we feel unable to stay afloat, we are not incapacitated. It's just that emotions, their management, have to be worked on.
To start you have to become emotionally aware. This is knowing how to recognize what we feel. Knowing how to name the emotion and realize the true relationship between what we feel and how we act induced by it. All these feelings, which come from very vivid emotions, will be treated in the Art Therapy workshops that will be carried out with the children and adolescents participating in the project. In them they will be able to work on stress and anxiety, emotionally process what has happened, recognize their feelings and express them through artistic creation. “Working on emotional knowledge through art, understood in many ways such as through drawing, body expression, breathing exercises, or theater, gives children the opportunity to identify and express the emotions they feel, such as fear or sadness. Art, in short, acts as that vehicle to be able to express oneself naturally through different forms,” says Víctor Ruibal, head of Educo projects in Spain.
For her part, Elena Gil Arroyo, president of the Mojo de Caña Association, with which Educo has embarked on the project - and with which we have already collaborated since 2011 -, talks about the need to focus help on the little ones: "Adults have more resources and experiences to face crisis situations, but children need protection so that their personal development is not affected, just as we have been doing for years on the island of La Palma thanks to the support of entities such as "I educate."
Spaces to explore emotions
In addition to La Palma, at Educo we have been providing emotional support through the Summer Comedor Scholarship spaces in various places in the country. The activities carried out by boys and girls in the summer program contribute to defining their emotions, knowing their fears, and working on their socio-emotional capacities, through cooperation and group work. Additionally, through role-playing games or creating a mural of emotions, they discover their innermost feelings and emotions. One of the aspects that are worked on, and that is of special importance now in La Palma, has to do with resilience . It is important that boys and girls know that everything happens and everything changes, and that through emotional pedagogy, which increases self-confidence, positivity and responsibility, resilience is also increased because the abilities to cope in life improve. society, and the mechanisms that favor the construction of its well-being in a conscious way.
The days go by and it continues to roar, the telluric force remains and the volca Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data no does not exhaust itself. It regurgitates and adds buried homes, scorched crops and sucked schools. And from La Palma they shout that they have lost everything. The heat of the volcano has ignited the discouragement, uneasiness and melancholy of the palm trees. And especially their children and adolescents, who experience first-hand a situation that surpasses them and that has a direct impact on their emotional health.
Unfortunately, the forces of nature are unstoppable but the strength of the little ones to overcome is moldable. Their resilience too. Psychological support, now more necessary than ever for La Palma childhood, can help calm a little all those burns - internal - caused by the inexhaustible lava.
Precisely with that spirit, to alleviate the concerns of the youngest, Educo has launched an emotional support project for children in coordination with the Mojo de Caña Association . This project, ready to start as soon as air quality improves and there is no risk to health, is carried out with the students of CEIP Todoque and CEIP Los Campitos. Almost 80% of these boys and girls have lost their homes and 30% of their families, their main source of income.
Manage the emotions you are experiencing
“When a catastrophe like this occurs, stress, anxiety, insecurity or fear increases for everyone, including children, who are more vulnerable to these situations. The traumatic events they are experiencing affect their learning, their physical health and their mental health and can have negative consequences on their future. Therefore, we have to work with them to manage the emotions they are experiencing,” says Pilar Orenes, general director of Educo.
It is not always easy to manage emotions; throughout everyone's life, they can overwhelm us and drown us, leaving us very touched. It is important to discern and recognize that although we feel unable to stay afloat, we are not incapacitated. It's just that emotions, their management, have to be worked on.
To start you have to become emotionally aware. This is knowing how to recognize what we feel. Knowing how to name the emotion and realize the true relationship between what we feel and how we act induced by it. All these feelings, which come from very vivid emotions, will be treated in the Art Therapy workshops that will be carried out with the children and adolescents participating in the project. In them they will be able to work on stress and anxiety, emotionally process what has happened, recognize their feelings and express them through artistic creation. “Working on emotional knowledge through art, understood in many ways such as through drawing, body expression, breathing exercises, or theater, gives children the opportunity to identify and express the emotions they feel, such as fear or sadness. Art, in short, acts as that vehicle to be able to express oneself naturally through different forms,” says Víctor Ruibal, head of Educo projects in Spain.
For her part, Elena Gil Arroyo, president of the Mojo de Caña Association, with which Educo has embarked on the project - and with which we have already collaborated since 2011 -, talks about the need to focus help on the little ones: "Adults have more resources and experiences to face crisis situations, but children need protection so that their personal development is not affected, just as we have been doing for years on the island of La Palma thanks to the support of entities such as "I educate."
Spaces to explore emotions
In addition to La Palma, at Educo we have been providing emotional support through the Summer Comedor Scholarship spaces in various places in the country. The activities carried out by boys and girls in the summer program contribute to defining their emotions, knowing their fears, and working on their socio-emotional capacities, through cooperation and group work. Additionally, through role-playing games or creating a mural of emotions, they discover their innermost feelings and emotions. One of the aspects that are worked on, and that is of special importance now in La Palma, has to do with resilience . It is important that boys and girls know that everything happens and everything changes, and that through emotional pedagogy, which increases self-confidence, positivity and responsibility, resilience is also increased because the abilities to cope in life improve. society, and the mechanisms that favor the construction of its well-being in a conscious way.