Creative Activities
Below are some creative ways to engage your clients, click for the link to go to the page.
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From the Blissful Kids website:
STAY COOL MINDFULNESS GAME
Purpose: Body awareness, Impulse control, Focus
Best for: Ages 4+, groups
What you need: Nothing
A friend taught me this mindfulness game, and we’ve been playing this at home for some time.
It’s a lot of laugh-out-loud fun.
Tee-hee!
And … this mindfulness game is even more fun at school or with any group of kids.
Truly … the more the merrier!
The game is simple.
It’s virtually a mindful version of the age-old staring contest.
And you can make it a hoot with a running commentary.
Youth, kids, and grown-ups can use this activity to:
have a laugh and relax,
learn focusing skills,
learn impulse control,
and figure out that paying attention to their senses helps them stay calm.
From the Mindful website:
Making sure our own needs are met is as important as taking care of those we love most. When turning your attention toward yourself feels challenging, there are simple ways to move through the discomfort. Explore our new guide for tips, practices, and reminders on how to engage in self-care.
It is so important to take care of you! Vicarious trauma and burnout is a thing :)
Adapted from: Shapiro, E. (2012). 4 Elements Exercise. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research,1(2),113-115
-The sequence of the 4 Elements Earth-Air-Water-Fire is designed to follow the body up from the feet –to the stomach & chest- to the throat & mouth -to the head
As each new “Element exercise” is presented briefly review the previous ones (“ as you continue feeling the SECURITY NOW of your feet on the GROUND; & feel CENTERED as you BREATHE in & out; & feel CALM & in CONTROL as you produce more & more SALIVA; you can let the FIRE LIGHT the path to your IMAGINATION to bring up an IMAGE of a place where you feel SAFE /or a memory in which you felt good about yourself.”
