Curriculum and Resources
Below are free samples of each area of our curriculum. Click here for a full curriculum outline.
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Part 1: Mindfulness Practices
Mindfulness practices help students develop concentration, focused attention, centering, and calming skills. Developing awareness of what’s happening in our minds, emotions, and bodies builds our self-reflection and self-regulation skills.
Introduction to Mindfulness
Box Breathing
Mindful Posture
Brain Dump & New Perspective
Brain Dump Color Brain Dump B/W
3-Minute Timer
4.5-Minute Timer
Part 2: Emotional Awareness
Students develop skills in naming nuanced emotions, recognizing how emotions feel in the body at differing levels of intensity, and understanding how our thoughts drive our behavior and impact our emotions. This understanding is essential for Inquiry.
60+ unique emojis to help name a variety of emotions
An excellent tool to move from naming a basic emotion to something more specific and nuanced
60+ unique emojis to help name a variety of emotions
A useful tool for learning about how various emotions may activate or deactivate certain areas of the body
Part 3: Inquiry
Students develop skills in identifying stressful thoughts and taking those thoughts through Inquiry in order to discover new possibilities and perspectives.
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Inquiry Based Stress Reduction is a simple method (four questions and the turnarounds) of identifying and questioning thoughts that cause stress, fear, anger and violence. In any stressful situation - personally or historically - you can identify the thoughts being believed, and then question them in order to discover new options and perspectives.
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The video below offers an overview of Inquiry.
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Question a stressful thought using this worksheet designed for adolescents
Question a stressful situation using this worksheet designed for adolescents