Mantra

Using a mantra...

- Gives students affirming statements to repeat
- Subconsciously allows students to start to see themselves in an affirming and positive light
- Provides students with an easy to implement coping strategy
- Increases self-worth

Implementation

Overview

- Individual student or class of students recite a created mantra for themselves or co-created and recited as a classroom.
- This could be class values or a positive self image poem.
- If individual this should be done privately.
- A student may say this in response to Automatic Negative Thoughts or when in need of affirmation.

Core Components

- Must have meaning for the student
- Must be used consistently
- Clear opportunities to use both proactively and responsively are shown to student(s)

Proactive Implementation

- Proactively establishing a mantra may look like having the entire class learn a consistent mantra to use each and every day. The mantra may be recited at the beginning of each day and then used as needed.

Responsive Implementation

- Responsively implementing a mantra may look like teaching a student, group, or class the mantra that is specific to targeted behaviors and initiating the process when they are in need of regualtion.

Connection

If the need is connection then the mantra may be communal and created together as a class.

Skills Training

If the need is skill building then the student may be prompted to recite the mantra at specifically challenging times.

Awareness

If the need is awareness then the student may be asked to complete a reflection of how they are feeling. Possibly using the zones of regualtion.

Emotional Regulation

If the need is regulation then the student may use the mantra as positive self talk or a coping strategy.

Consider Factors Prior to Start

Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships

Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology

Intensifying or Fading During

REMINDER

- Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
- After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.

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