This book seeks to highlight the potential of narrative techniques as a means of emotional education and positive education. In today’s technocratic world, storytelling serves to balance the spirit's and soul's need for acceptance, expression, and self-actualization.

By applying appropriate strategies and making functional interventions in the educational or counseling process, children develop their self-esteem, become happier, express themselves, learn, experience states of psychological flow, and ultimately "blossom" in a fertile and creative school environment.

This book is aimed at educators, counselors/coordinators, psychologists, group trainers, and parents interested in the emotional development of their children.

With the help of the principles of positive psychology and the group processing of suitable stories, it aims to:

• cultivate children's self-awareness and self-esteem,
• encourage the expression and acceptance of their emotions,
• enhance their communication and social skills,
• manage problems, sources of stress, and creatively resolve conflicts,
• recognize, express, and cultivate positive emotions, enhance children's empathy and mental resilience,
• establish goals and support them in the journey toward self-actualization,
• empower them, and pursue meaning and happiness.

The book also contains:

• The theoretical background regarding emotional education, narrative technique, positive education, and the role of the educator/counselor.
• 75 book recommendations with fairy tales and stories that can be used to implement the program's units.
• 7 tables with selected stories, myths, fairy tales, and illustrated books aimed at developing each emotion/skill separately.
• 53 original activities for the implementation of the program. Each activity presents the goals, stories, duration, the role of the educator, and the group.
• Methods and techniques for evaluating the program.
• Reliable and up-to-date Greek and foreign literature.

The program proposed in this book can be applied within the Skills Workshop for Well-Being or Health Education programs in schools and/or in the context of psychological and counseling intervention.

Because children deserve to dream of a better world, to become what they want, to be healthy, and to be happy.