Calm & Connected: A Guide to Personalized Grounding and Mental Health
12 Session Program | For Ages 11-18
Our latest activity guide! Calm & Connected: A Guide to Personalized Grounding and Mental Health is a curriculum designed to promote youth mental health and well-being through self-discovery, creative expression, and personal growth. This 12-session Unity Circle® guide helps youth understand that there are many ways to be unique—unique ways of exploring, communicating, and healing.
12 Session Program | For Ages 11-18
Calm & Connected: A Guide to Personalized Grounding and Mental Health is a curriculum designed to promote youth mental health and well-being through self-discovery, creative expression, and personal growth. This 12-session Unity Circle® guide helps youth understand that there are many ways to be unique—unique ways of exploring, communicating, and healing. It begins by building group safety, shared agreements, and a foundation for understanding mental health and personal capacities. The middle sessions explore a range of capacities through practical, youth-centered activities that support emotional well-being. The final sessions bring everything together through reflection and integration, helping youth apply their strengths to support ongoing mental health and personal growth.
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Session
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Theme
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Activities
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| 1 | We Are All Unique: An Introduction to Mental Health | Creating Circle Guidelines, Intro to Mental Health, Mental Health as a Battery Metaphor |
| 2 | We Are All Unique: An Introduction to Capacities | Introduction to Multiple Capacities, Multiple Capacities Round-Robin |
| 3 | Naming Your Story (Linguistic) | Emotions Vocabulary Challenge, Your Best Possible Future Self |
| 4 | Patterns of Thought (Logical-Mathematical) | “Thought Traps” Decoding Game, Emotion Graphing Over a Week, Problem Solution Wheel |
| 5 | Feel It in the Frequencies (Musical) | 3 Songs for 3 Feelings, Rhythm Circles, Sound & Feeling Journaling |
| 6 | Moving Through Emotion (Bodily-Kinesthetic) | Emotion Charades and Movement, Grounding Motion, “Flow Move/Go Move” for Stress |
| 7 | Seeing the Inner World (Visual-Spatial) | “Inner Weather” Drawing, Emotion Collage |
| 8 | Relationships & Empathy (Interpersonal) | Partner Empathy Walk, “What I Wish You Knew…” Anonymous Share, Support Web: Who’s in Your Corner? |
| 9 | Knowing Yourself (Intrapersonal) | Strengths Reflection Journaling, “What Triggers Me and How Do I Cope?”, Create a “You Map” |
| 10 | Mental Health in Nature (Naturalistic) | Nature Scavenger Hunt, Metaphor Reflection: “My mind is a _______.”, Outdoor Sit Spot & Journaling |
| 11 | Integration – Your Personal Wellness Recipe | My Mental Health Recipe, Create a Strengths-Based Affirmation |
| 12 | Shine & Reflect | “Before & After” Reflection Collage, Strength Circle: Affirmation from Peers, Creative Showcase |
| Sample Pdf Link | https://onecirclefoundation.org/media/pdfs/Sample-UC-Calm-S7.pdf |
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