Parts of the Brain
This part of the brain helps you problem solve, do school work and understand others perspectives.
What is the Upstairs Brain? (What is the prefrontal cortex?)
What Anthony the Ape, who lives in the downstairs part of your brain, might tell you to do when you are dysregulated.
What is fight, flight or freeze?
The prefrontal cortex is located in this spot on your head.
What is on the center of the forehead?
Practice makes ______.
What it's called when you are dysregulated.
What is you flipped your lid?
This part of the brain is responsible for your emotions.
What is our Downstairs Brain? (What is the amygdala?)
The downstairs brain is responsible for this.
What is survival?
From the hand model of your brain, your upstairs brain in charge or working looks like this.
What is finger over thumbs/lid on?
Not being able to do something ________.
What is yet?
The part of the brain you are working out of when you are dysregulated.
What is the downstairs brain?
These animals live in the Upstairs Brain.
Who are The Wise Old Owl and Elsy the Elephant?
The downstairs brain takes over this part of the brain when dysregulated.
In the hand model of the brain, what part of the hand represents the prefrontal cortex?
What is two fingers?
This thing is really important to help your brain grow.
What is making mistakes?
The part of the brain that is in charge when you are regulated and doing your work.
What is the upstairs brain?
This part of your brain sends and receives signals from the body, and is your most primitive part of your brain.
What is your brain stem?
This part of the downstairs brain is responsible for memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Ways to keep your lid on?
What is meditation, planning ahead, reframing my thoughts, recognizing Stinkin' Thinkin', identifying triggers, taking deep breaths, etc?
When you learn new things you are doing this for your brain.
What is feeding, befriending and training your brain? What is shaping your brain to be more elastic/growth mindset?
The strategy will help to put your lid back on.
What is Name it to Tame it? (and using an "I Message" - even to yourself!!)
This part of your brain is they system that includes your amygdala and your hippocampus. It is your Feeling Brain.
What is your Downstairs Brain?
This part of the brain helps to make connections and "talk" to the upstairs brain.
What is synapses?
A time when you were able to keep your lid on when you were facing a stressor.
What is a time when you helped your upstairs and downstairs brain work together. What is repairing or keeping the staircase intact?
These connections become bigger and stronger the more you try to learn something new.
What is synapses?
This strategy will help to regulate your nervous system.
What are sensory strategies, mindfulness, Mind Holidays, etc?