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#STUCK THINKING ROCK BRAIN HOW TO#

I am teaching skills, empathizing and relating all day long and at times, feeling like a fraud as I struggle to manage my own stress. I believe that all the life experiences I have had make me a better therapist, and I am continually trying to make meaning out of hardships that we all endure, but to be honest, it has been hard lately. I have been thinking a lot about stress lately as I have experienced some life changes over the past several months that have left me feeling overwhelmed and depleted. The stress that really gets us down is usually more long-term, chronic stress related to our jobs, finances, or relationships among other things. There are manageable moments of stress that can be good for us and lead to action or problem solving, but that’s not the stress I’m talking about.

Stress is an all too common part of our lives and cannot completely be avoided. Self-regulation toward behaviour changeĤ) Co-Operative Play: In this group, children will learn positive, pro-social techniques and strategies and apply them in a small group setting with peers.Stress! I feel it, I know you feel it, and it sucks the life out of us.

#STUCK THINKING ROCK BRAIN HOW TO#

Using the heroes and villains created in the Superflex curriculum, students will learn how to apply skills such as regulation and flexibility to real-life situations.

The Hidden Rules and Expected and Unexpected Behavioursģ) Superflex: Children will have the opportunity to learn and practice skills to improve their “Superflex powers”.

It works on understanding others’ perspectives and increasing behaviours that make others have positive thoughts about us. The Social Thinking curriculum is for children who struggle with understanding how their thoughts and actions make other people think and feel.

Children will practice applying their strategies to real-life situations.

Children will learn thinking strategies such as Size of the Problem and Superflex vs Rock Brain.

Children will be able to choose appropriate strategies and practice using them to regulate their behaviour and emotions.

Children will be able to identify their personal triggers that could trigger them to move into the yellow/red zone.

Children will use language of “red zone”, “yellow zone” and “green zone” to label their emotions and related behaviour.Children will be able to label different emotions and the corresponding behaviours.Skills will be tracked and monitored as the group progresses.ġ) Zones of Regulation: The Zones of Regulation curriculum is for children who struggle with self-regulation including emotions, anger management, and impulse control. Groups are geared to children 5-7 years old and 8-11 years old. Groups are arranged in 6-week sessions with 12 lessons in each session block (either bi-weekly or for a 2 hour session). The goal of the groups is for students to learn pro-social behaviours in a small group setting. What are “Social Skills”? Social skills groups are geared for children who have some foundational skills in attending and learning but struggle in applying their skills to a group setting or who struggle with self-regulation and flexibility.