Build confidence, enhance well-being and create positive change

PRACTICAL COPING STRATEGIES

• Understand the difference between solving a problem and tolerating distress

• Learn the TIPP skills for crisis moments

• Build a personalized crisis coping toolkit

• Practice distress tolerance techniques

Distress Tolerance Toolkit

In this 5 part series, participants will learn about:

• Understand what grounding is and when to use it

• Learn multiple grounding techniques (5-4-3-2-1, physical, mental, soothing)

• Practice grounding methods as a group

• Identify which techniques work best individually

Grounding Techniques

• Identify common cognitive distortions

• Learn to challenge unhelpful thoughts

• Practice thought records

• Develop more balanced thinking patterns

Cognitive Restructuring

Sleep Hygiene

Behavioral Activation

• Understand the relationship between activity and mood

• Identify the depression/inactivity cycle

• Learn to schedule mood-boosting activities

• Create a personalized behavioral activation plan

• Understand the relationship between sleep and mental health

• Identify personal sleep disruptors

• Learn evidence-based sleep hygiene practices

• Create a personalized sleep plan