Icebreakers
- Conversation Jenga
- M & M Sort
- Animal Strengths Cards and Art Project
- The Ungame
- Would You Rather?
- House, Person, Tree Art Project
- Draw a Person Art Project
- Stormy Waters Art Project
- Name Anagram
- Totem Building
- Intake activities
- SFBT Dice Roll
Feelings Expression
- Metaphors (anger=soda can; grief=pin box; etc.)
- Kimochis stories and games
- Zones of Regulation stories and games
- Defeating Your Unthinkables
- Talking, Feeling, Doing Game
- Sand trays
- Puppets
- Play dough
- Scaling Art Projects
- My Feelings Book
- Body Diagrams
- Color key art project
- Magical Creatures
- Mysterious Monsters
- Anger waves
- Kintsugi creation
- Tear catchers
- Grief resources
- Anxiety and depression questionnaires
Self-Discovery
- Inside/out drawings
- Iceberg Drawing
- Hope box
- Self-identity symbol making
- Super hero capes
- Personal "web" design
- Self-awareness inventories
- Social skills games and activities (Should I or Shouldn't I?, role playing)
- Unthinkables vs Thinkables
- Personal Hierarchy of Needs
Quality Life Goals
- Goal defining and mapping
- The Miracle Question
- The Magic Key
- Personal Timelines
- Genograms
- Support Mapping
- My future self collage
- College and career inventories
Coping Strategies
- Catch, Check, Change
- Five Senses Art Project
- Stress balls/fidgets
- Coping skills fortune tellers
- Worry dolls/beads/box
- Sweet Dreams sachets
- Guided meditations
- Breathing Techniques (Figure 8, Alternate Nostril, 4-4-4-4, 4-6-4-6, 4-4, The Sigh, Birthday Cake)
- Body scan
- Progressive muscular relaxation
- Mindful practices (grounding exercises, meditations, worry naming and visualizations)
- Scaling inventories
- Tapping technique
- Thought stopping strategies (Stop!, word buster, replace it, happy place)
- Replacement story creation
- Journal making