🌿 WHAT IS ACT? (FOR KIDS & FAMILIES)
🦊 Learning Life Skills with Finn & Friends
Big feelings, tricky thoughts, and life’s ups and downs — everyone has them. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps us handle them with care.
In Acceptance Acres, Finn and his friends use ACT skills every day — to notice, breathe, and take kind steps forward. These skills aren’t just for therapy. They’re for life.
🌿 ACT at its core involves three powerful (and gentle) ideas:
1. Opening Up - allowing thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them.
2. Being Present - noticing what's happening right here, right now.
3. Doing What Matters - choosing actions that reflect your values.
✨ When kids (and parents) practice these three steps, they learn how to steady their hearts, even when life feels messy.
🦊 Meet Finn’s Friends
Learning ACT Skills in Acceptance Acres
In Acceptance Acres, each animal friend helps children explore one of the six core ACT skills. Together, they show that mindfulness, flexibility, and compassion can grow through small, steady steps every day.
🦊 Finn the Fox – The ACT Learner
🦆 Delaney the Duck – Defusion
🦜 Micah the Macaw – Mindfulness
🦔 Avery the Armadillo – Acceptance
🦅 Vivian the Vulture – Values
🦏 Riley the Rhino – Self-Regulation
🐿 Sage the Squirrel – Self-as-Context
🐆 Cleo the Cheetah – Committed Action
When kids meet these friends, ACT becomes a living adventure — not a theory.
🏡 ACT in Everyday Life
Simple Practices for Families & Classrooms
ACT skills aren’t just ideas — they’re daily tools for growing steady hearts. When families, friends, or classrooms learn these skills together, children discover that calm, courage, and kindness can all be practiced.
🌿 Pause and Notice – Take a mindful breath before reacting.
💬 Name the Thought – “Thank you, mind.” Then choose what matters next.
💛 Do Something Small – A kind act, a deep breath, or a brave step forward.
Every practice, no matter how small, helps kids build emotional flexibility — the foundation for lifelong resilience.
"One mindful moment at a time can change a day."
🌿 Where to Begin Your Journey
Small Steps Toward Steady Hearts
Every big change begins with one calm moment.
Start exploring ACT at your family’s pace — through stories, playful activities, and gentle mindfulness tools that help kids (and grown-ups) steady their hearts, even when life feels messy.
🫙 Try This First:
Download our Free Mindfulness Starter Pack — a warm introduction to mindful noticing, kind awareness, and everyday calm with Finn and Delaney.
🦊 Or Begin Here:
Meet the animal friends of Acceptance Acres — each one teaches a unique ACT skill through story and play.
🐾 We’re so glad to walk alongside you.
Mindful Living Resources | Gentle ACT-based tools for growing steady hearts.