EMOTIONS ELEVATOR
What is 10?
If I'm being impulsive, reacting in the moment, I am using my...
What is Lizard Brain?
Something you KNOW to be true because you can prove it.
What is a fact?
This is what we say IDC stands for in BrainWise.
What is IDentify your Choices?
A baseball player wants to hit a homerun, a teacher wants to help her students learn, your friend wants to finish reading the Harry Potter series - These are all examples of this BrainWise term.
What is a goal?
A good rule to remember is to always be __________ on the Emotions Elevator than the other person.
What is lower?
Your 5 senses all send signals to a place near the center of your brain called the Thalamus - The Thalamus acts like a ____________ ____________ as it sorts and sends this information to other parts of the brain.
What is Relay Center?
We learned that this Wise Way is a good way to gather the information you need to make a choice or decision.
What is Ask Questions?
These are the 3 types of Consequences to consider when you're making a choice.
These are the 2 types of communication.
What are verbal and non-verbal?
Our _______ Brain is a rocket to the 10th floor of the Emotions Elevator.
What is our Lizard?
This brain response comes in handy if you're actually in danger because it reacts without thinking by defending itself, running away or staying perfectly still.
What is Flight, Fight or Freeze?
_______________ create gossip and have no proof.
We need to be on these floors of the Emotions Elevator in order to Identify our Choices and Consider the Consequences.
What are floors 5 and below?
These are examples of nonverbal communication - Provide at least 3.
What are body language, eye contact, facial expression, tone of voice, hand gestures, posture?
Being low on the Emotions Elevator helps us to ________ & ____________.
What is STOP & THINK?
The Prefrontal Cortex is the scientific name for this part of our brain, located right behind our foreheads.
What is Wizard Brain?
This is who we can go to if we want to gather information and determine the facts.
What is our Constellation of Support?
You always have more than one choice, but need to ______ & _______ and use your ___________ ______________ to think about what those choices are.
What are:
Stop & Think
and
Wizard Brain?
"I feel...", "I would like...", "I am..." and "I need..." are all examples of how to start this.
What are "I" messages?
We learned 4 ways to lower ourselves on the Emotions Elevator - These are 2 of those ways...
What are (1) Yackety-Yack Self-Talk Back, (2) Stop Talking and Leave, (3) Do Something Else (Distraction), and (4) Relax, Take Deep Breaths
What are feelings/emotions?
We completed the following riddle by asking the right questions:
She looked at him, turned and ran.
This is who "she" was in the solution of that riddle.
What is a cat?
A result or effect of an action or choice is the definition of this term.
What is Consequence?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
By doing our own science experiment in class, we showed examples of these 4 types of verbal communication.
GET DOUBLE POINTS FOR IDENTIFYING WHICH ONE IS THE PREFERRED STYLE
What are Aggressive, Passive, Passive-Aggressive and Assertive Communication?
PREFERRED STYLE:
What is Assertive Communication?