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All the Zones are Okay
A core belief of The Zones of Regulation is that all the Zones are okay. We routinely experience several of the Zones across a day. It’s critically important that we don’t convey the message that the Green Zone is the only acceptable Zone to be in. Acknowledge, accept, and support these feelings, never make anyone feel like the Green Zone is the norm.
What it IS:
• A proactive, skills based approach
• A simple, common language to understand, talk about, and teach regulation.
• A consistent, metacognitive pathway to follow for regulation.
• A systematic framework with a developmental sequence of lessons.
• Meant to be adapted for your learners and setting.
What it ISN’T:
• A behavior approach.
• A discipline model, punitive in nature.
• A scripted curriculum with different lessons for each age/grade level.
• Only about teaching the 4 Zones and feelings associated with them.
Bearing🐻 Up❤️ Links
‘The Zones of Regulation’ (like The Decider Skills, SHANARRI Indicators, Inside Out Emotions and Characters) are a great resource for contextualising through Bear/ A Bearing Up Approach. It is important to note that if you are using one of the other resources mentioned above you do not need to change it!
This is an alternative resource/idea for those schools already using ‘The Zones of Regulation’ as to how it can be accessed through Bearing Up too. 🥰
I’ve included the 4 core coloured Zones and then extended them with some of the other ones previously to further emphasise the cross-over and complex nature of emotions in a very visual and child friendly way. I’ve kept them vertical and added Calm vertically to make it clearer that all emotions including Calm are valued equally and that all are normal. The ‘fizzy bubbles’ only start to grow as they get nearer the top to emphasise that although all emotions are normal, that it’s important to apply regulation strategies to avoid them over powering us and taking over.
You can use Bear as previously described to discuss and share examples of the emotions and the events/things that can lead to them. 🧸💖
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