Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Helping children feel safe enough to learn.

Overview Five Skills Delivery Get Involved

Why Social Emotional Learning Matters

Children who have lived through trauma often find it hard to feel safe, trust others, or concentrate in class. Social Emotional Learning (SEL) gives them everyday tools to understand their emotions, calm their bodies, build healthy relationships, and make caring choices.

Daily routines such as breathing, check-ins, and safety circles help children feel safe enough to learn. Delivered by trained teachers and caregivers, these simple practices become part of the school day, so support continues long after a session ends.

A volunteer talking with a young girl beside a wall of emotion faces

Five Core Skills

The five core social and emotional skills that guide our SEL work.

Self-Awareness: recognising one’s emotions and values as well as one’s strengths and challenges
Self-Management: managing emotions and behaviours to achieve one’s goals
Responsible Decision-Making: making ethical, constructive choices about personal and social behaviour
Relationship Skills: forming positive relationships, working in teams, dealing effectively with conflict
Social Awareness: showing understanding and empathy for others

Where We Deliver SEL

Our SEL work reaches conflict-affected children in Sudan through the Education in Crisis project.

See The Sudan Project

More Coming Soon

The SEL Handbook, with practical guidance and activities for classrooms and care settings, and more about this project will be shared here soon.

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