I created this innovation because I saw how education often overlooks the heart.
Children are expected to learn, focus, and behave — yet no one teaches them how to live inside their emotions. I watched how fear, shame, or tension could silence even the brightest child, while adults, lost in their own overwhelm, tried to fix behavior instead of seeing the feeling beneath it.
As a mother of three and an observer of early childhood education, I wanted to build something that restores the emotional thread between a child and the adult guiding them.
That’s how the Pedagogy of Emotion and Narrative was born — a method that uses stories, imagination, and emotional dialogue to bring safety back into learning.
Each story becomes a mirror where children recognize themselves and a compass that helps teachers and parents respond with empathy rather than control.
It’s not therapy and not instruction — it’s education that breathes, rooted in real human connection.
I created it because I believe emotional literacy should be as fundamental as reading or math — and because a child who feels safe, learns deeply.
In practice, the Pedagogy of Emotion and Narrative looks like a living dialogue between story and feeling.
Teachers or parents begin with an original emotional fairy tale — a short story designed to awaken empathy, curiosity, and reflection. Each tale touches a real emotional theme: fear, jealousy, sadness, excitement, courage, or belonging.
After reading, children are guided through open conversations, sensory play, movement, and art that help them recognize and express their emotions safely.
Adults learn to stay in the emotion with the child — not to rush to fix, distract, or punish, but to build connection and understanding.
The method uses simple tools — books, imagination, and presence.
It can be applied in preschools, homes, and therapeutic or inclusive classrooms, adapting easily to any cultural or social setting.
Workshops for teachers introduce emotional language, reflective dialogue, and ways to transform everyday conflicts into opportunities for growth and bonding.
In practice, it’s not a program to follow step-by-step — it’s a way of being with children: calm, human, and emotionally intelligent.
The Kulbaka Method was born in 2023 — not in institutions, but in homes.
It began with parents reading emotional fairy tales to their children and realizing that after each story, it became easier to talk, cry, and laugh together. They started sharing the stories with other families, teachers, and educators — and a quiet movement began to grow.
By 2025, the method had reached kindergartens and schools as an original program for working with emotions through storytelling. Educators began to combine the tales with daily routines, creating their own emotional rituals inspired by the Pedagogy of Emotion and Narrative.
It spreads organically — through experience, not marketing.
When adults see that children become calmer, more confident, and more empathetic, they want to share it.
It doesn’t need technology or funding.
It spreads like a good story — from heart to heart. ❤️
The Kulbaka Method keeps growing through practice.
It started with emotional fairy tales — short stories written to help children name and understand feelings. But as teachers and parents began to use them, I realized the method was not only about stories — it was about the relationship built around them.
So I added reflective dialogues, calming rituals, and emotional observation sheets for educators — simple ways to notice how a child’s emotional world changes over time.
Later came the idea of social CRP — a model that measures collective empathy and connection in classrooms and communities.
The stories were translated into English and adapted into bilingual materials, so the same emotional language could reach children in different cultures.
Workshops for teachers evolved into full training sessions that combine theory, neuroscience, and experiential exercises.
The method has grown from books to a system — one that can fit any setting where emotions and learning meet.
Every new story or insight from educators becomes part of the living method. In that way, it keeps expanding — not as a fixed program, but as an emotional ecosystem that listens, adapts, and keeps breathing.
To try the Kulbaka Method, you begin not with training or theory — but with a story.
Choose one of the original emotional tales from the series Edukacja przez emocje (Education through Emotions) or its English version Enchanted Tales.
Read it slowly, with the child beside you. Notice what they feel — and what you feel. Don’t explain, don’t fix. Just stay together in the moment of emotion. That’s the first step.
Educators who want to apply the method in classrooms can use the introductory guide and emotion cards available with the books.
They show how to lead reflection circles, calm-down rituals, and short activities that help children integrate emotions into daily learning.
For deeper work, workshops and online sessions introduce the five-stage emotional cycle, the “social CRP” framework, and tools for observing empathy in group settings.
Everything begins from the same principle: emotion first, instruction later.
Start with one story — and watch how connection grows.
The method doesn’t require technology or equipment. Only presence, curiosity, and time to listen.
