Wise Mind Basics
This DBT concept is the balance between emotional mind and reasonable mind.
What is Wise Mind?
This skill involves balancing acceptance and change.
Walking the Middle Path
This skill means noticing thoughts without judging them.
What is Nonjudgmental Awareness?
This skill involves taking care of physical health to reduce emotional vulnerability.
What is PLEASE skills?
This princess lost her glass slipper at the ball.
Who is Cinderella?
This “mind” is driven by facts, logic, and reason alone.
What is Reasonable Mind?
This concept teaches that two opposite things can both be true.
What is Dialectics?
“One-mindfully” means doing this.
What is focusing on one thing at a time?
Acting opposite to an emotion’s urge is called…
What is Opposite Action?
This lion cub is the main character in The Lion King.
Who is Simba?
This “mind” is ruled by feelings, urges, and moods.
What is Emotional Mind?
Example: “I’m doing the best I can AND I need to do better.” This is called…
What is a dialectical statement?
This “what skill” involves putting words on your experience.
What is Describe?
This term means reducing vulnerability to intense emotions.
What is building emotional resilience?
This snowman loves warm hugs in Frozen.
Who is Olaf?
Name one skill used to access Wise Mind.
What is meditation, mindfulness, or deep breathing?
This parenting or relationship style balances strictness and flexibility.
What is authoritative (validation plus limits)?
This “how skill” encourages effectiveness over being right.
What is Effectively?
Name one part of PLEASE skills.
What is sleep, nutrition, exercise, avoiding substances, or treating illness?
This mermaid princess dreams of living on land.
Who is Ariel?
True or False: Wise Mind means ignoring your emotions.
False
Name one way to practice middle path thinking during conflict.
What is seeing both perspectives, avoiding all-or-nothing thinking, or compromise?
Name all three “what skills.”
What are Observe, Describe, and Participate?
True or False: You should always act on your emotions.
False
This villain turns into a dragon in Sleeping Beauty.
Who is Maleficent?