Are you guilty of fighting fire with fire?
We've all been there- either snipping, "QUIET" with a spicy tone, or building a crescendo of "I'll wait", until your voice is shrill. When students don't listen, repeatedly interrupt or consistently stray from the learning target, it can feel lonely, and it can feel personal.
If your stomach sinks, your heart races, and everything in you wants to battle for the louder voice and the bigger presence... don't worry babe- it's not you, it’s your stress response.
Heightened noise, off-task choices and periods of repeated conflict are all triggering our nervous system- activating a fight-or-flight response.
That urge to push back and raise our voices? Our brains are wired for quick, instinctive responses, making it our default reaction against threats to control, respect, & safety.
But we know power struggles are reactive and ineffective in long-term relationship-building and self-regulation.
What we need is co-regulation.
Asserting power feeds chaos, while co-regulation dismantles and rewires it.
Enter mindful, animated GIFs- visualization tools are the easiest way to interrupt undesirable behavior while giving both you and your class SPACE to reset our nervous systems before coming up with a plan.
In the growing bundle, you have access to 6 different mindful breathing exercises for each season.
Each seasonal set comes with a optional calming songs, a fullscreen option, half screen with prompts and half screen with editable text so that you can accommodate for language needs or SEL targets.
Also being added to the growing bundle, are visualization exercises that feature immersive, calming animations on loop, and ASMR high-quality sound effects that will help transport you and your students to a grounded, feel-good place.
I hope that next time you're feeling overwhelmed and your class is dysregulated, you can use these no-prep Slides to help build a bubble of peace, before reconnecting and resetting your goals and expectations as a group.
