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1. 101 Mindfulness Exercises for
Children and Adolescents
Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Executive Director, AllCEUs
AllCEUs.com Unlimited CEUs and Specialty Certifications $59

2. Objectives
 Core Mindfulness
 Walking the Middle Path
 Distress Tolerance
 Emotion Regulation
 Interpersonal Effectiveness
 Mindfulness Exercises
 DBT Games and Activities

3. Core Mindfulness
 Three States of Mind
 Reasonable: School Brain, scientist, robot
 Emotional: What your heart says
 Wise: The logical choice that makes you as happy as
possible
 Example: Animal rescue
 Example: Extracurricular activities

4. Core Mindfulness
 Wise Mind What Skills
 Observe: Be a detective. Take in the whole situation.
 Describe: Name your experiences
 Participate: Be actively involved in the moment
 Practice observing, describing and participating
 Discuss things that would stay in the way of observing,
describing, participating

5. Core Mindfulness
 Wise Mind How Skills
 Nonjudgmental: Observable, measurable
 One mind: Focus on the task at hand. Clear your mind
of everything else
 Do what works

6. Walking the Middle Path
 Balancing the ideas of acceptance and change
 Incorporates
 Dialectics
 Both/And
 Recognizing change is the only constant
 Validation
 Active listening
 Tolerating others
 Tolerating self
 Behaviorism
 Reinforcement
 Shaping
 Extinction of maladaptive behaviors

7. Walking the Middle Path
 Open your eyes to seeing things from different
angles
 Change is constant. If it is stressful now; change
will happen
 Find both sides of the spectrum and use a
both/and approach
 Validate Self: Acknowledging what you feel
nonjudgmentally
 Validate Others

8. Distress Tolerance
 Activities
 Contributing
 Comparison
 Emotions (the opposite)
 Push the experience from your mind
 Think about alternate things
 Sensations (intense)

9. Distress Tolerance
 Self-soothe with the 5 senses
 Pros and Cons
 Long term goals
 Decisional balance
Make it through the
situation
Not make it
through the
situation
Benefits
Drawbacks

10. Distress Tolerance
 Imagery of a relaxing place
 Meaning
 Survived similar situations
 What is important in your life (in comparison, how important
is this)
 Prayer
 Relaxation
 One thing in the moment
 Vacation (mental or physical)
 Encouragement Helpful statements about self and
others

11. Distress Tolerance
 Radical Acceptance
 Life can be tough. It isn’t fair
 Some things can’t be changed
 You don’t have to like it
 Identify
Things you can change
Things you cannot change

12. Emotion Regulation
 Identify and label primary and secondary emotions
 Strength
 Sleep
 Take care of self
 Resist unhelpful behaviors/impulsivity
 Exercise
 Nutrition
 Gain mastery
 Take time for yourself (relaxation/pleasant activities)
 Healthy self-talk

13. Interpersonal Effectiveness
 Cheerleading statements
 Dear Man
 Describe objectively
 Express your feelings
 Assert your wants and needs
 Reinforce by creating a win/win
 Mindful focus on the present
 Appear confident
 Negotiate

14. Interpersonal Effectiveness
 FAST
 Fairly treat others: The Golden Rule
 Apologize when you make a mistake, not for being you
 Stick to values—What is important to you
 Tell the truth

15. Mindfulness Exercises
 Transformation: Creative uses for everyday objects (both/and)
 Scents and memories
 Mindful eating
 Blindfolded awareness
 Name 4 and 4
 Create a special place (guided imagery)
 Distress Hat
 Emotions collage
 Nature Observation
 Hold Ice—Pain reaction
 Self-Esteem envelope
 A movie about my life (title, stars, main plot)
 Feelings charades

16. DBT Games
 DBT Charms
 Self-soothing kit
 Cell phone: Heart rate monitor, knock knock jokes,
funny videos, distracting music, sweet images,
cathartic/validating images (Grumpy Cat)
 DBT Jeopardy
 DBT Infomercials
 Media DBT –show clips

17. Summary
 Adolescents are trying to discover
 Their values
 Their niche
 Their goals
 Adolescents are transitioning from the carefree
childhood to trying to become adults
 Adolescents almost always have a low to
moderate level of stress making them more
vulnerable to emotional reactivity.

18. Summary
 DBT helps adolescents gain control over their
emotions
 Mindfulness helps them become aware of the whats
and whys of their emotions
 Most adolescents prefer an indirect approach to
learning skills
 Through skills groups adolescents can
 Acquire new skills
 Relate them to something they know
 Practice them in a safe environment
 Come to the awareness for themselves why these skills are
helpful

19. Summary
 All of these activities need to be processed and
brought back around to how they can be
generalized in the real world