Emotional Skills Cards

Help children build a practical language for understanding emotions, thoughts and actions.

The Emotional Skills Cards include 42 psychology-informed cards featuring six members of the Inner Team:

• Negative Nala™
• Curious Candice™
• Thoughtful Thelma™
• Confident Charlie™
• Impulsive Isaac™
• Caring Claire™

Each card introduces an emotional skill and a simple action children can practise in everyday situations. Through relatable characters and child friendly language, the cards help make complex psychological ideas easier to understand, discuss and use.
Created by a registered psychologist, the cards draw on established psychological frameworks relating to emotional regulation, flexible thinking, self-compassion, confidence, pausing before acting and responding to worry.

Suitable for children aged five and over, the cards can be used:

• At home to support conversations between children and caregivers
• In schools to explore emotional and social skills
• In psychology, therapy and allied health settings
• Individually, in small groups or alongside the Inner Team book

The characters are not labels or personality types. Every child has a whole Inner Team, and different team members may show up in different moments.

Inside the box: 42 Emotional Skills Cards featuring six Inner Team characters, each character has one superpower card and six skill cards, which includes a practical skill and action.

Please note: These cards are educational learning tools. They are not a therapeutic program and are not a replacement for individual assessment, therapy or professional support.