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Family Movie Nights
By Melanie, Provisional Psychologist
Are you creating a list of movies for this weekend?
Don’t forget to include an all-time favourite Pixar film – Inside Out!
Inside Out is a catchy, funny and insightful film. The producer spent years developing the plot by drawing ideas from his daughter who was growing and changing. He also involved a few psychologists (such as Paul Ekman and Dacher Keltner – worth checking out their research and books too) to help with character development.
Some lessons we can take away from Inside Out:
- It is essential to embrace sadness to allow healing to begin
- An example of what empathy looks like
- Our core beliefs (personality island) drive the ways that we behave.
- Our beliefs can also be threatened/challenged.
- The different types of memories (Long Term and Short Term)
- A memory can elicit more than one emotion
Check out this video on youtube: What Causes Anxiety and Depression – Inside Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNsTy-j_sQs
Attached is an activity sheet that our children can participate in after watching the movie. This activity encourages a child to draw a memory in the globe, and shade the globe with multiple colours that symbolise what emotions the memory elicits.