🦉 Professor Owl says: "Your brain is full of happy things — let's map them!" Write or draw your answers inside each part of the brain.
✏️ Fill in each part of your happy brain — type straight into the boxes, or print it and write by hand.
💖 Things I Love
What makes your heart feel warm?
😊 People Who Make Me Smile
Who makes you laugh and feel safe?
🏡 Happy Places
Where do you feel calm and happy?
💪 My Superpowers
What are you really good at?
📸 Favourite Memories
What moments do you love remembering?
🌈 Dreams & Wishes
What do you hope for?
✨ Remember: You are amazing just as you are! Share your happy brain with someone you love. 💚
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PawSteps · For Grown-Ups
My Happy Brain — Facilitator Notes
For school counsellors, therapists, social workers, teachers and homeschool families working on social-emotional learning.
💡 How to use it
Give each child a copy and coloured pencils. Read each section aloud and give thinking time before writing — younger children or emerging writers can draw their answers instead. There are no wrong answers; the goal is noticing what fills their brain with happiness.
🗣️ Talk prompts per section
Things I Love — "How does your body feel when you're with that thing?" ·
People Who Make Me Smile — "What do they do that helps you feel safe?" ·
Happy Places — "Can you picture it? What can you see and hear there?" ·
My Superpowers — steer towards character strengths (kindness, trying again) not just skills ·
Favourite Memories — "Who was with you? Could you plan to do it again?" ·
Dreams & Wishes — big or small, silly or serious, all welcome.
🎯 When to use it
End-of-year reflection · summer counselling packets · back-to-school SEL lessons · new-student check-ins · after a wobbly week as a positivity reset · alongside the PawSteps Feelings Weather Check-In (map the happy brain on a "sunny" day, revisit it on a "rainy" one).
💚 Extension ideas
Share one section with a partner ("share your happy brain with someone you love") · turn "My Superpowers" into a class strengths wall · revisit the sheet each term and add new items in a different colour to show growth · for reluctant writers, cut out magazine pictures and glue them into the sections.
🧠 Why it works
Naming sources of joy, strengths and gratitude builds self-awareness and emotional vocabulary — and framing it inside "your brain" gently teaches that thoughts and feelings live somewhere we can notice and influence. Non-threatening by design: it only asks for positives.