Help students build kindness skills across all areas of their lives with this engaging 6-Week Kindness Small Group Curriculum! This low-prep school counseling group helps students learn and practice how to show kindness to friends, family, peers, themselves, and their community through games, activities, discussion, reflection, and real-life practice.

This research-based, data-driven small group includes detailed outlines, ASCA-aligned objectives, pre- and post-group self-assessments, and six weeks of engaging activities designed to make running a Tier 2 counseling group simple and effective.

Students will learn how to:

⭐ Show kindness to friends

⭐ Show kindness to family members

⭐ Practice kindness toward peers and classmates

⭐ Recognize ways to be kind to themselves

⭐ Show kindness within their community

⭐ Demonstrate empathy, compassion, and concern for others

⭐ Reflect on and practice the kindness skills they’ve learned

This resource includes:

✔ 6 weeks of engaging games and activities

✔ Detailed session outlines with ASCA-aligned objectives

✔ Pre- and post-group self-assessments for data collection

✔ Group Rules and Feelings Check posters

✔ Weekly concept posters

✔ Social story with relatable characters

✔ Kindness Cootie Catcher craft

✔ Kindness Meter sorting activity with 15 game cards

✔ The Invisible Boy book/video read-aloud activity and coloring page

✔ Kindness Scavenger Hunt and sorting activity

✔ Random Act of Kindness activity

✔ Make-your-own discussion die

✔ Matching game to review concepts

✔ Kindness reflection activity

6-Week Group Outline:

Week 1: Showing Kindness to Friends

Students explore kindness through a social story with relatable characters and complete a kindness cootie catcher craft.

Week 2: Showing Kindness to Family

Students use a sorting activity and Kindness Meter to discuss kindness at home and identify family members they could show more kindness toward.

Week 3: Showing Kindness to Peers

Students watch or read The Invisible Boy and discuss how kindness affects peers while completing a coloring activity.

Week 4: Showing Kindness to Self

Students complete a scavenger hunt and sorting activity to identify ways they can treat themselves with kindness.

Week 5: Showing Kindness to the Community

Students select a random act of kindness to perform during the group session and debrief using a make-your-own discussion die.

Week 6: Reflect and Practice

Students review concepts with a matching game and identify, discuss, and show how they plan to practice kindness.

Why You'll Love This Group:

⭐ Low prep and easy to implement

⭐ Simply print and use

⭐ Clear instructions for each session

⭐ Built-in data collection helps you measure student growth

⭐ Engaging games, crafts, stories, sorting activities, and discussion

⭐ Research-based and ASCA-aligned

⭐ Reuse the curriculum with future groups

Whether you're supporting students who need additional practice showing kindness to others or helping them learn to extend that same kindness to themselves, this 6-week kindness counseling group gives you structured, engaging activities to help students practice kindness at school, at home, and in their community.