This month, Elementary students are focusing on Relationship Skills. They are working on empathy and paying attention to others through a variety of games. They are also doing lots of body-based mirroring and clapping to help encourage students to build internal and external awareness. They faced their final challenge by working together to keep the leader a secret from a guesser. Students have had lots of fun while articulating the importance of paying attention to others and expressing understanding to develop friendships. See students expressions of empathy in the pictures below. Middle Schoolers are working on some new curriculum that is designed to help teach students about emotion regulation, mindful awareness, and distress tolerance. This content has sparked some great discussions about what benefits Middle Schoolers and the skills they need to be successful. This week, we learned about the three states of mind: emotion mind, reasonable (logic) mind, and wise mind. Students discussed how they are most successful when they combine the emotion and reasonable (logic) mind, and decisions cannot be made well with only one of them. The wise mind helps us balance these two states. We have also welcomed some new Middle Schoolers this Winter. Those students are working with their group to get to know each other and settle into the routine by goal setting and creating vision boards to express these interests and goals. – Emma Mamis, Board Certified Dance/ Movement Therapist, Clinical Counselor Comments are closed.
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