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Guide to Building Your Calm Spot

Guide the student through identifying personal stress triggers, visualizing a mental safe space, and creating a blueprint paired with coping strategies to manage anxiety.

This lesson equips the student with a personalized mental “calm spot” and actionable coping tools to reduce anxiety, foster self-regulation, and build resilience in stressful situations.

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10 minutes

Step 1

Establish Rapport & Identify Triggers

5 minutes

Step 2

Guided Visualization

10 minutes

Step 3

Blueprint Creation

7 minutes

Step 4

Coping Strategy Development

5 minutes

Step 5

Reflection & Closure

3 minutes

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Visualizing Your Calm Spot

1. Getting Comfortable

2. Sense the Surroundings: Sight

3. Sounds & Smells

4. Textures & Temperature

5. Colors & Shapes

6. Bringing It All Together

7. Reflection & Debrief

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Journal

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Warm Up

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What’s Your Calm Spot?

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