Everyone has Sparkle

Fizzing excitement soon to experience something you enjoy

Heaviness when you feel sad or disppointed

Floaty bursts of happiness

Planting a new ‘field of joy’ - a new friend, exciting interest, anything that brings you continuous joy.

Watering a field of joy - it will grow even bigger and more beautiful

Powerful unbreakable love you feel for friends, family - pets

The true awe of watching a new flower bloom, or seeing the fruity gifts grown on your garden tree.

Everyone has sparkle.

Sparkly People are naturally FULL of sparkle

I say they have a Sparkly Mind

The reasons I have built this website, and introducing ‘an alternative narrative’

The Sparkly Philosophy

• to recognise incredible strengths and boost positivity

• help normalise big feelings, giving children tools to understand, celebrate and regulate them

• for children to feel like they belong

• for children to reconnect with themselves - so they do not feel ‘broken’

Being full of Sparkle can be exciting, creative, and make you feel alive - full of uniquely wonderful ideas and unlimited possibilities.

A sparkly mind is powerful.

It can feel heavy, exhausting, confusing and sometimes overwhelming

Too many narratives focus on negatives

This narrative is purely strength based

No one is wrong.

Or broken.

Or ‘too much’.

Just Sparkly People with beautifully Sparkly minds

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I am a teacher, and sparkly children are my inspiration and motivation.

I have had the pleasure of experiencing 20 years of children full of sparkly ideas and creations.

Sometimes their idea or thought is so sparkly - feeling like a firework in a jar - it escapes abruptly either in the form of body sparkles, or words, and sometimes even full sentences bursting out of their small mouths.

I want to help Sparkly children recognise, understand and celebrate their own Sparkle.

I want adults to help create more safe spaces for Sparkly children - to allow their sparkle to glisten and shine.

Big feelings are normal - children should be educated about how to notice, name and help regulate their feelings when they get overwhelmingly powerful.

Sparkly children deserve to understand, and celebrate, what makes them human - to feel like they belong.

Through improving emotional literacy and being able acknowledge their feelings, as normal - albeit powerful.

I have discovered Spark Pods® - natural, tactile, sacred stone like discs that come from seeds.

I have created mindful rituals to be used with the Spark Pods to help children pause, reset and reconnect with their natural human gifts.

All humans have all been given the following;

Awareness, Peace, Growth, Connection, Joy + Strength

I call these The Gifts

✨Spark Pods™️ and The Gifts

Spark Pods do not do anything new.

They do, using mindful rituals, help you to reconnect with your with your own sparkle - your gifts

They help us pause.

Remind us of our strength

Give us courage

Help us connect

and most beautifully …open your eyes to nature

reminds you to listen to birdsong

Everything is already here

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I have used different coloured Spark Pods to represent the gifts and created a selection of mindful rituals - accessible for all.

Each mindful ritual is designed, and adapted several times - the holder decides what works for them - whatever to reconnect with themselves, and with nature.

To gently wake up their Sparkle - to feel, to see, and just to be.

✨Spark Pods™️ - help the holder pause + see what has always been there.

Created by me:

✨Spark Pods and The Gifts.

“reset and reconnect”

The Six sessions begin as either;

-a Six Month Sparkly Journey preorder for January- six boxes sent to directly to the Sparkly Person at home - these are deasigned for a more independent experience.

-Six Week School Box - preorder for January - one box sent to the school/establishment in December

Both include all resources, worksheets, mindful actitivies and video access for demonstrations and stories (plus more)

Schools (or any educational establishments) - Designed to be delivered over six weeks - six sessions with six different Spark Pods.

Each session is designed be delivered by a teacher/TA(Terrifically Awesome)/educator using the clear guidance provided - this will be in the form of simple written step by step instructions and optional scripts- along with short video clips.

I aim to reply to any queries within 48 hours and contact details will be provided with purchase.

The sessions for each Spark Pod are thoughtfully designed to promote positivity, uniqueness and acceptance with the aim to feel like they belong.

The six themes align with the gifts.

Schools will receive access to short videos and clear simple instruction to guide the teacher, and also videos and physical resources that can be shared with the children.

Parents/Guardians - for a slower pace, or just to do at home - we have the same six themed sessions, delivered over six months - with a monthly box that will be delivered to your home, starting in January.

These boxes are designed to be used more independently by the child, with the support of an older sibling (big kid) or trusted adult.

Ideal for new school starters, or students transitioning to Secondary School.

This will also include access to videos showing you how to do the rituals and fun rain stick dances.

Strength based wellbeing course - coming soon