SECOND STEPS MIND MAP

SECOND STEPS MIND MAP

1. Emotions Matter

   • Emotions help us to take action, to survive, strike and avoid danger, to make decisions, to understand others. Moreover, they help other people to understand us.
     • 1: A conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body. 2: A state of feeling. 3: The affective aspect of consciousness : feeling.

2. Feel, Think, Do

   • To learn to do something new, we need to recognize how we FEEL about it. We need to decide what we THINK and know, then we need to try and DO something differently. When we interact with others, we have an immediate feeling; we experience an emotion. Almost at the same time, we have a thought about it. As a result of this, we act very quickly. We learn that a behaviour produces a result and a becomes part of our memory. Doing something new or differently means making or modifying our memory. This means changing how we feel, changing what we know and the changing what we do.

3. Unhelpful Thoughts

   • This thinking style involves seeing only one extreme or the other. You are either wrong or right, good or bad and so on. There are no in- betweens or shades of gray. When a person experiences an unhelpful emotion (eg, depression or anxiety), it is usually preceded by a number of unhelpful self-statements and thoughts.

4. Reframing Unhelpful Thoughts

   • Empower students to escape negative thinking traps by guiding them to reframe negative thoughts. Once students identify these cognitive distortions, real change can begin. These thoughts hold them back and keep them from their full potential. In cognitive behavioral therapy, there are dozens of thinking errors that cause the mind to believe things that are just not true.

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