A   PROJECT   OF   SERESC
Mann (2011)
Stress Awareness:
 Name your feelings
 Name your stressors
 Use a Stress Test Form
 Identify your negative self-talk or negative thinking
Stress Reduction and Stress Management Strategies:
 Take two or three deep Calming Breaths (Deep, Slow Breathing)
 Try a visual imagery relaxation strategy (‘Calm Place’; ‘Visualize a Successful Outcome’; ‘Cas off the Chains’)
 Take a brief exercise or movement break (safe, but physical)
 Draw a ZenTangle (see www.zentagle.com)
 Use positive self-talk or positive thinking
 Look at your positive thinking journal
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Look at the Positive Thoughts Wall (area)
Read something positive, inspirational, or funny
 Call your ‘Positive Thinking Partner’
 Write about your stress and feelings
 Draw about your stress and feelings
 Talk about your stress and feelings to a trusted person (friend, teacher, counselor, parent)
 Resolve or deal with the person you are frustrated with, angry with, or concerned about
 Make a plan:
 Take care of unfinished business (make a plan to handle the issue that is on your mind)
 Set an achievable goal and make a step by step plan to achieve it
 Make an organizational plan to get caught up on your work