Thoughts Have Feelings Too
Thoughts Have Feelings Too is a gentle and funny performance that shows students how to think positively about the feelings they experience in their day-to-day lives in a primary school environment.
The students meet two clowns: Sweet ‘Clown’ and the absent-minded ‘Professor’. When the two clowns meet in the Professor’s laboratory, they discover that thoughts and emotions are connected.
Over four scenes focusing on happiness, sadness, anger and fear, the clowns discover how to recognise each emotion and find simple steps to deal with them. Supporting the Health Curriculum, which promotes positive self-talk and interaction, Thoughts Have Feelings Too works as a tool for schools to discuss emotions in a positive and lighthearted way.
Developed in close consultation with teachers and child health specialists, Thoughts Have Feelings Too premiered for the opening of Mental Health Week celebrations in Brisbane, 2008. Thoughts Have Feelings Too has toured extensively with Queensland Arts Council in 2009 and 2010 throughout Regional Queensland, and Brisbane, to sell out performances!
THOUGHTS HAVE FEELINGS, TOO
Learning Areas:
The Arts (Drama)
Strands: Developing understanding of practices
Responding to and interpreting artworks
Health and Physical Education
Strand: Personal, Social and Community Health
General Capabilities
Critical and Creative Thinking
- Express ideas, concepts, thoughts and feelings creatively
- Consider and evaluate motivations, intentions, influences and biases
- Offer and receive effective feedback
Ethical Understanding
- Apply skills in reasoning, empathy and imagination
- Make judgements about actions and motives
Personal and Social Capability
- Initiative
- Confidence
- Resilience
- Adaptability
- Empathy
Style/Form:
- Traditional and Contemporary Clowning
- Non-Verbal Communication and Mime
Themes and Contexts:
- Storytelling
- Creativity and Imagination
- Confidence
- Resilience
- Self-Esteem
Devised by: Ben Cornfoot, Tony Kishawi and Brin Pritchard in collaboration with Mental Health specialists.
Directed by: Tony Kishawi.
Staging Requirements:
- An indoor venue guarantees a better and more intimate performance
- Outdoor venue need minimum of one wall
- 5x5m wide space (no power outlet is required)