Journey to the
Heart’s Garden
Interactive Emotional Literacy Experiences for Early Learners
Help Pre-K and Kindergarten learners build emotional vocabulary, strengthen friendship skills, and practice healthy relationship behaviors through engaging, story-based learning designed for young children.
Preschools · Early Learning Centers · Child Development Programs
What Young Learners Experience
Engage in an expressive, author-led read-aloud with projected illustrations that support active listening and story connection.
Build emotional vocabulary and explore selected relationship “seeds,” including honesty, forgiveness, respect, patience, communication, and support.
Practice healthy responses to friendship challenges, mistakes, and big feelings through guided conversation, movement, and reflection.
Leave with a personal “seed” commitment that extends learning beyond the experience.
Interactive Early Learning Experiences
Choose the experience that best fits your learners and program goals. Timing and delivery are refined during program planning.
Institutional invoicing and book + program bundles are available for early learning organizations.
Program Planning Note: Early learning programs provide an appropriate presentation space and learner supervision. Experiences are tailored based on learner age, group size, developmental needs, available programming time, and center goals. Projected illustrations are part of the standard experience and presentation details are confirmed during planning.
Early Literacy | Emotional Literacy | Friendship & Relationship Skills | Family Engagement | Belonging |
Early Literacy | Emotional Literacy | Friendship & Relationship Skills | Family Engagement | Belonging |
Planning Something Larger?
Programs can be combined and tailored around your learners, number of classrooms or locations, family engagement goals, event format, and book needs.
Extend the Learning Beyond the Experience
Pair programming with copies of Journey to the Heart’s Garden so educators and families can continue the story’s emotional literacy and relationship learning beyond the experience.
Books may be incorporated as:
Classroom copies
Multi-classroom or center-wide quantities
Family engagement resources
Event or take-home copies
Books and programming can be combined in a single organizational quote or invoice.
About Dr. Keneca Boyce
Dr. Keneca Boyce is a licensed therapist, Relational Intelligence Specialist, author, trainer, and speaker with more than 20 years of experience supporting children, families, educators, and communities.
Her therapist-informed approach combines engaging storytelling with developmentally appropriate emotional literacy and relationship skill-building to create experiences that are meaningful, practical, and easy to extend beyond the visit.
Through Journey to the Heart’s Garden, she helps young children build language for feelings, friendships, communication, repair, and healthy connection while providing educators and caregivers with practical ways to reinforce the learning.
In-person and virtual engagements are available across the U.S., with select international opportunities considered upon request.
In-person and virtual engagements are available across the U.S., with select international opportunities considered upon request.
Bring the Journey to Your Early Learning Program
Tell us about your organization, learners, and goals. We’ll review your request and follow up with availability, a recommended program format, and next steps.