Mr. Parker’s TIPS 5-15

TIPS #5 on Perspectives

(CIP Units 23 Listen to Different Ideas & 30 Resolves Disagreements Calmly)

Learn about how to see through other people’s eyes. In this TIPS session, you will learn how to be a detective and pick up clues on what other people are feeling, you can look at their body, face and think about the situation.

TIPS #6 on Anxiety

Learning about what anxiety can look and feel like on your body. In this TIPS session, you will learn about things that can help you when you’re feeling anxious and that anxiety is actually very normal and everyone feels it!

TIPS #7 on Paraphrasing

Summarizing what other people are saying is important. In this TIPS session, you will learn how to use good listening skills to repeat back in your own words what other people are saying. Paraphrasing is a great way to show we are listening and understanding.

TIPS #8 on Happiness

(CIP Unit 20 Make Others Feel Better & Unit 29 Show Kindness to Others When Their Upset)

This TIPS session is about happiness and how we can achieve it without things like big presents. In this TIPS session, you will learning about happiness that lives inside of us, rather than happiness coming from presents or gifts.

TIPS #9 on Showing Empathy with the HEARS Method

(CIP Unit 23 Listen to Different Perspectives)

Expressing empathy involves using good posture, eye contact, thinking about feelings, and then showing those feelings back. In this session, you will learn about the HEARS method and how to use it. HEARS stands for Hold correct posture, Eye contact with the speaker, Accessing the feelings you’re thinking about, Responding to the feelings with our faces, and Saying what the other person is feeling.

TIPS #10 on Getting Started

(CIP Unit 4 Paying Attention to Your Work)

This is a TIPS about making a plan to get started on tasks and complete them. In this session, you will learn some basic skills to make a routine and complete activities throughout the day.

TIPS #11 on Anger

(CIP Unit 18)

This TIPS video is about the feeling of anger. In this session, you will understand what anger looks like and feels like, and start to think about things that make you angry.

TIPS #12 on Triggers

This is a session about figuring out the things that make you angry. In this TIPS session, you will learn the term triggers or anger buttons, the things that make you upset.

TIPS #13 on Expressing Your Feelings

(CIP Unit 13 Express Your Feelings)

This TIPS session is about an appropriate way to express your feelings. In it you will learn how to get your point across with a calm voice.

TIPS #14 on Consequences

(CIP Unit 12 Own Your Actions)

This TIPS session is about good or bad consequences resulting from one’s actions. In it you will learn about how our behaviors affect other people in the long term.

TIPS #15 on Deep Breathing

This TIPS session is about how to use deep breathing to calm down. In it you will learn a deep breathing technique involving breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth to help calm down or even get focused.