About The Feelings Finder

Over the years I’ve used a magnetic Feelings Finder board with kids of all ages and abilities. It has been so effective in helping kids who don’t want to or can’t talk about their feelings to have a means to express them. It’s also been a wonderful means of tracking how emotions change in response to certain situations and has acted as a springboard to identify sensory, body-based and environmental supports and tools for self regulation.

This tool has been used as part of the OpenMind program, and in research studies of the program in the US and South Korea. It has been sold to people all over the world and has helped thousands of kids identify, express and process their emotions and feelings. I wanted to make the tool accessible to a wider audience, and to create a mobile app, but didn’t know how to begin.

And then I met the brilliant and kind See-ming Lee @seeminglee on Instagram, who shared a common goal to help others, and who created this web-based version, as a pro bono act of compassion. He has made it possible for us to share this valuable resource, completely free of charge.

This is just one function of the tool, and a full app is currently under development. We hope you find it helpful.

— Dr. Monica Jackman, Little Lotus Therapy