Resources
Waves for Change uses activities and games to encourage children and youth to practice behaviours which can help them feel calm, connected, and capable. Most of our activities take place at the beach, but what we practice can be used anywhere, anytime! Below are guides to some of our activities, which you can do at home, in your community, and in the classroom.
W4C Power hand
This activity helps us to name our strengths, so we feel resilient and STRONG. It can also help us to feel calm. Watch the video below, and
Download the step-by-step guide to building your Power Hand here.
W4C Take 5
This activity is short, simple breathing activity which we can use anywhere, anytime.
You can read the steps in English here
You can read the steps in Afrikaans here.
You can read the steps in isiXhosa here.
Then you can listen to the Take 5 read by W4C coaches in Afrikaans, isiXhosa and English.
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Take 5 isiXhosa
Take 5 English
Take 5 Afrikaans
Take 5 Shona
Take 5 Body Scan isiXhosa
Take 5 Body Scan English
Take 5 Body Scan Afrikaans
Take 5 Senses isiXhosa
Take 5 Senses isiXhosa
Take 5 Senses Afrikaans
Take 5 Check In isiXhosa
Take 5 Check in English
Take 5 Check in Afrikaans
Build Your Power Hand isiXhosa
Build Your Power Hand English
Build Your Power Hand Afrikaans
Let’s be Bananas isiXhosa
Let’s be Bananas English
Let’s be Bananas Afrikaans
Take 5 Gratitude isiXhosa
Take 5 Gratitude English
Take 5 Gratitude Afrikaans