Harding High School
Trauma Informed Newsletter- February 2016 Edition
Emotional Self-Regulation for Adults: The capacity to effectively manage your emotions and behaviors in a variety of situations and environments.
Strategies to increase your ability to Self-Regulate:
- Be aware of your emotional triggers
- Connect your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (State of Mind circle)
- Understanding your personal response to triggers (Fight, Flight, Free)
- De-personalize the situation - it's NOT about you.
- Replace the thought of: "Why is he/she doing this to me" with "What must have happened in his/her life that he is responding this way"
- This is very difficult to do - it takes a lot of practice!
"Between stiumulus and response there is space, and in that space lies our power and freedom."
~Viktor Frankel "Man's Search for Meaning"
~Viktor Frankel "Man's Search for Meaning"
Next month's topic: How to help our students self-regulate...