Concluding Comments

This handbook isn’t meant to be the final word. It’s an invitation: a starting point for creativity, collaboration, and growth. Now that you’ve explored ways to bring Social Emotional Learning (SEL) alive through doodling, music, and dramatisation, we encourage you to take the next step.

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Try it out: Bring these strategies into your classrooms, workshops, or community sessions. Experiment with the activities, adapt the templates, and see how learners respond. Small steps can lead to big ripples of change. We would also love to know your experience!

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Support: If you need help in incorporating the strategies mentioned in the handbook, we’re just an email away. Don’t hesitate to reach out, we’d be happy to assist you.

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Review: Your feedback is precious. We invite you to review this handbook using the form in Annexure VII. Your comments will help us refine and grow this resource. And yes, your name will feature in the Reviewers’ Credits section in the next edition (unless you prefer to remain anonymous).

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Share: If you’ve found this handbook useful, pass it on! Share it with colleagues, learners, community members, anyone who would benefit from SEL and arts-based learning.

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Contribute: Have you created doodles, soundscapes, scripts, or lesson plans inspired by this handbook? Share them with us! We’ll host them in our online repository, credit you as the author, and ensure they reach a wider community of educators. Just let us know the licence (e.g., CC BY, CC BY-SA) you’d like to assign.

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Dive Deeper: To explore the topics covered in this handbook further, you’ll find suggested readings and courses listed in Annexure V.

This handbook is a living, breathing resource: by educators, for educators. With your creativity, stories, and contributions, it will only grow stronger.

Teach it. Feel it. Share it. Shape it.

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Keep Calm and STEAM Ahead! Copyright © 2025 by Natasha Maria Gomes, Goa University, under the mentorship of Geoffrey B. Cain, with the support from Hub-Coordinator Ajita Deshmukh as part of the OE4BW 2025 program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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