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Lesson Plan

Learning How to Work with Difficult Emotions

In this lesson, students will learn how to work with difficult emotions so they can decrease stress and cultivate well-being.
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Learning Objectives

Students will learn strategies for working with difficult emotions.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Gather students into a circle, either seated in chairs or on the floor.
  • Remind students of the raised attention signal and the talking piece.
  • Welcoming: Circle time always begins with everyone being welcomed into the circle. Model welcoming a student and then have each student welcome the student sitting next to them. Be sure to rotate who sits where so students introduce different classmates. Example: “Hello Jasmine, welcome to our circle!” (Optional: create a new greeting every week. For example, using a small ball or bean bag, have students toss the object to each other once they greet a student, then the student with the object greets the next student, etc.)
  • Once every student has been welcomed retrieve the talking piece.
  • Share that today they will be learning how to work with difficult emotions.