Mindfulness
Part of the WHAT skills involving putting words on our experience; labeling what we observe; ungluing our interpretations and opinions
DESCRIBE skill
This skill involves being kind to the self through our sensations with soothing music, smells, pictures, tastes and/or soft touch
SELF SOOTHING skill
This skills focuses on doing things that make you feel competent and effective to combat helplessness and hopelessness
BUILDING MASTERY skill
This skill teaches us to more effectively ask for what we want or say no to another person's request and get our objective met in a challenging conversation
DEAR MAN skills
This describes the state of our emotions being in control-when emotions influence and control our thinking and our behavior.
EMOTION MIND
This skill describes the wisdom within each person; seeing the value of both reason and emotion; bringing left brain and right brain together; the middle path
WISE MIND skill
This reality acceptance skill describes the readiness to enter and participate fully in life and living.
WILLINGNESS skill
This skill involves proactively thinking through a challenging situation ahead of time, identifying coping strategies to use in the situation, and then imagining yourself coping effectively through use of these skills in this difficult scenario.
COPE AHEAD skill
This skill involves finding the kernel of truth in another person's perspective or situation; acknowledging that person's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors have causes and are therefore understandable.
VALIDATION skill
This skill involves being aware of the present moment and focusing our attention on the here and now
MINDFULNESS skill
Part of the WHAT skills that involves noticing your body sensations; paying attention; controlling your attention; practicing wordless watching
OBSERVE skill
This crisis survival skill asks us to pause, take a step back, observe, and proceed mindfully.
STOP skill
This set of skills helps to reduce emotional vulnerability through focusing on taking care of your mind by taking care of your body
PLEASE skills
What does DBT stand for?
DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Part of the WHAT skills involving fully entering into the present moment; becoming one with whatever you are doing; going with the flow
PARTICIPATE skill
This crisis survival skill gives us different strategies to reduce extreme emotion mind quickly through exercise, paced breathing, and temperature.
TIPP skills
This skill involves doing things that you enjoy doing- involving short term changes in your life so that positive events will happen more often in the future and long term focusing on building a life worth living.
ACCUMULATING POSITIVE EMOTIONS skill
This skill focuses our conversations in a skillful way to prioritize maintaining the relationship we have with the person we are speaking to.
GIVE skills
This describes the skill of balancing opposites while entering the paradox of "both and"- "yes" and "no," "true" and "not true," at the very same time.
DIALECTICS skill
Part of the HOW skills involving viewing reality as it is, refraining from labeling experiences or individuals as good or bad.
NON-JUDGMENTAL skill
This reality acceptance skill involves letting go of fighting reality and understanding that there are some things that we can not change.
RADICAL ACCEPTANCE skill
This skill encourages us to change our actions in order to change how we feel.
ACTING OPPOSITE TO EMOTIONS skill
This skill focuses our conversation in a way to prioritize our self-respect by sticking to our values.
FAST skills
Describe the benefits of practicing 'half smiling' and 'willing hands'. Then demonstrate for the group what this looks like!
Demonstrate HALF SMILE & WILLING HANDS