Session 5 Managing difficult times

Purpose
Siblings share their difficult times, recognise similarities of experiences and begin to develop strategies for dealing with them

Time (mins)	Activity	Resources
10	Warm up game to draw out similarities of experience	All those who
10	Welcomes. Have siblings had any experiences to add to the washing line?	Previous washing line
40	Drama to help to practise coping strategies	Hang out your dirty washing Part 2 cont'd
10	Break	Snacks & drinks
40	Masks. Explore siblings inner resources that allow them to get through difficult times	Masks
10	Game to change mood/energise	Squash the sib
5	Goodbyes. Let siblings know that you will be making worry boxes next week and that you will sending out a letter to parents asking them to support the siblings in using it
	Group leader remember to send worry box letter to parents