Session Description: Feeling stressed or anxious? Come kick back and take it easy. Learn a new mindfulness technique and create a sensory bottle to start or add to your self-care toolkit so that you can help reduce your stress, while showing off your individuality and creativity.   

Learning objectives:

Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Recognize what causes you stress and come up with working solutions (Story of Self/Personal Narrative)
• Describe how our feel good bottle relates to who we are, so that it might reduce stress and anxiety (Attachment & Connectedness)
• Practice being present and aware of your emotions, while building tools for your self-care (Self-Regulation)

Session outline:

• 10m / Introduction & Overview
• 18m / Discussion: Mind Your Stress
• 30m / Activity: This Feels Good
• 2m / Wrap-up

Slides: Included (optional - not required for presentation)

Reproducible handout included:

• Water Bottle Measurement 

 For more information about SPARK curriculum and the evidence behind it, visit www.fosterclub.org/SPARK

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