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Strategies to Promote Coping
Strategies to Promote Coping
Start with a Mindful Morning
Start with a Mindful Morning
This strategy can be used to start the school day with your class. It’s not something you can do just in the morning but anytime of day when you need a break. It includes deep breathing, mindfulness, practicing gratitude, and more.
Write in a Journal
Write in a Journal
Writing in a journal helps get thoughts out in a safe way. This can be extremely beneficial for people of all ages. Sometimes, just by writing thoughts out, students can learn to make sense of things in a different way. Give free writes or use more directed prompts. Here is list of mindfulness journal ideas.
This mindfulness journal is intended as a simple and effective way to practice mindfulness as part of your teaching and learning. It includes prompts that encourage writing and discussion, and practice with mindfulness. These can be used with a whole class, small group or individually.
Guided Meditation
Guided Meditation
The Balloon
This guided meditation brings a visual component to a very simple deep breathing exercise. This can be done standing or seated.
1. Relax your body and begin to take deep inhales and slow exhales through the nose.
2. Start to take a slow, deep breath to fill your belly up with air, as if you’re trying to blow up a big balloon. Expand your belly as much as you can.
3. Slowly let the air out of the balloon (through the nose) as you release the breath from the belly.
4. Encourage your kids to feel their entire body relax each time they exhale, each time air is slowly being released from the balloon. You can even make a “hissing” noise to encourage them to slow down the exhale even more, “Like letting air out of the balloon.”
5. Continue for several minutes
Star Breathing
Star Breathing
Brain Breaks
Brain Breaks
Brain breaks have multiple benefits for student learning. These benefits include improved cognitive functioning, increased motivation, ability to sustain focus for academic work & positive emotions and enjoyment within the classroom. It is important to use brain 'breaks' effectively. Brain breaks only take up small amount of lesson time in the classroom.
Zones of Regulation
Zones of Regulation
Why Teach Self-Regulation?
Why Teach Self-Regulation?
Regulation is something everyone continually works on whether we are aware of it or not. We all encounter trying circumstances that can test our limits. If we can recognize when we are becoming less regulated, we are able to do something about it to manage our feelings and get ourselves to a healthy place. This comes more naturally for some, but for others it is a skill that needs more attention and practice. This is the goal of The Zones of Regulation.
Sorting Our Emotions into Four Zones
Feelings are complicated. They come in different sizes, intensities, and levels of energy that are unique with in our brains and bodies. To make them easier to talk about, think about, and regulate, The Zones of Regulation organises our feelings, state of alertness, and energy levels into four coloured Zones – Blue, Green, Yellow, and Red. The simple, common language and visual structure of Zones of Regulation helps make the complex skill of regulation more concrete for learners and those who support them. We learn to regulate our Zones to meet our goals and task demands, as well as support our overall well- being.
Facilitating Referrals
Facilitating Referrals
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