Self-Aware Practice Resources

Self-Awareness Resources

Research and Articles

• How to Develop and Practice Emotional Self-Regulation  

• It Takes Two: The Role of Co-Regulation in Building Self-Regulation Skills

• What is Emotion Regulation? + 6 Emotional Skills and Strategies

• HBR What Self-Awareness Really is and How to Cultivate It

• Measuring the Effects of Self-Awareness: Construction of the Self-Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire

• Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, and Self-Transcendence (S-ART): A Framework for Understanding the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Mindfulness

• Appreciative Inquiry Model and Methods 

• Reflective practice in uncertain times: How you are is as important as what you do 

• Supporting Professionals Who Support Families: The Parallel Process | ECLKC

• “Co-regulation: What It Is and Why it Matters” 

• Research Paper: Why is Self-Awareness Important in Coaching? 

• Measuring the Effects of Self-Awareness: Construction of the Self-Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire

• Permission to Feel Podcast with Brene Brown

Websites which contain research, information, and practices useful for adults and young children

• Zero to Three's Getting Started with Mindfulness: A Toolkit for  Early Childhood Organizations

• Yale School of Medicine's Center for Emotional Intelligence RULER Approach

  • • Mood Meter Slides

• University of California Berkeley's Greater Good in Action

• PositivePsychology.com Building Self-Awareness Activities

Videos used by the regional coaches (all listed are currently free, and the last four are recommended by PositivePsychology.com)

• https://insighttimer.com/guided-meditations

• Re-centering in Times of Uncertainty

• Listening as a Humility Practice

• The Mantra of Humility

• Simple Stress and Anxiety Buster (4.5 minutes)

• Mindful Listening for Focus (3:05 minutes)

• The Only Place You Need to Be is Here (3:32 minutes)

• Tara Brach  (Free, 1 to 40 Minutes, Website with video classes)

• The Honest Guys  (10 to 40 minutes, Free on YouTube, Best for Relaxation)

• Gabby Bernstein  (6 minutes, Free with E-mail Sign up, Best for Walking)

• Jason Stephenson (1 to 3 hours, Calming guide voice and music, Best for Sleep)

Self-Awareness Facilitator Scripts

Taste and Smell practices

• Raisin Meditation

• Raisin Practice

• Mindful Smelling & Tasting Slides 

Breathing and Body Awareness practices

• Basic Sense-Based Self-Aware Breathing

• STAR (or Turkey) Practice

Imaginative, Inner Vision practices

• The Garden Practice (slide deck with facilitator notes)

• Future Self Walk

Nature-Informed practices

• Forest Bathing "Sit Spot" practice 

• Sit Spot and Related Practices

• Barefoot Walking 

• Cloud Watching

• Swaying

• Stone Practices

Listening and hearing practices

• Oh, OK 

• Slow-Hum Breathing 

• Slow-Hum Breathing slides

Reflective Thinking or Journaling activities

• Live Your Core Values: 10-Minute Exercise to Increase Your Success, Taproot, Barb Carr, 2013

• VIA Character Strengths Survey - (You will need to create an account to access this resource)

• Lenses of Culture with Circle of Influence Arrows 

• Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire

Discussion and Inquiry practices

• Appreciative Inquiry script/form

• **Getting to Know You: Initial Planning Form

• **CARES Coaching UCD coaching tools initial planning conference form

• Getting to Know You Questionnaire Sheet

• All About Me

Poems

• Mary Oliver

  • The Summer Day

  • The Wild Geese

  • The Journey

  • Bone

• Rumi

  • The Guest House

  • A Great Wagon

• Safire Rose She Let Go

• John Roedel My Brain and Heart Divorced

• 25 pages of Meditative Poems by diverse people

Other Self-Aware Practices and Resources

• Sense-Based Self-Aware Practices (Jamboard collaboration PDF)