Resiliency: Engage, Define, Ground, Exhale
Practical tools and fun activities for youth to navigate emotions, manage stress, and build lifelong resilience.
Explore The ToolsWhat is The Resiliency Edge?
This project provides simple, powerful techniques to help you understand your feelings and find your calm. It's designed with students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 in mind, to make learning about mental wellness easy and engaging.
Understand Feelings
Learn to identify your emotions with tools like the "Name-it to Tame-it" feelings wheel.
Calm Your Body
Discover techniques like Box Breathing and EFT Tapping to soothe anxiety and stress.
Build Strength
Develop skills that will help you bounce back from challenges at school, at home, and in life.
Example Resiliency Tools
Flip Your Lid
Understand what happens in your brain when you feel big emotions! This simple hand model helps you see how your 'thinking brain' (your fingers) can disconnect from your 'feeling brain' (your thumb). Learning this helps you know when you need to take a moment to calm down.
Understand Your Brain →
EFT Tapping
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a practical tool for managing stress and strong emotions. By tapping on specific points while focusing on your feelings, you can reduce tension, calm your body, and regain mental clarity.
Learn the Tapping Points →
Mindful Breathing
Box Breathing: this is a simple and powerful breathing exercise to calm your nervous system. It's easy to remember: Breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 4, breathe out for 4, and hold for 4. Just like a square! It's a superpower you can use anywhere, anytime.
Try Box Breathing Now →
Mountain Breathing
Trace the peaks and valleys with your finger and your breath. As you trace up a mountain, breathe in slowly. As you trace down the other side, breathe out. This is a great way to focus your mind and calm your body, one mountain at a time.
Try Mountain Breathing →
Name It To Tame It
Putting a name to a feeling is the first step to understanding it. Our 'Name It To Tame It' guide uses a feelings wheel and fun emotion faces to help you identify exactly what's going on inside. When you can name it, you can start to manage it.
Explore the Feelings Wheel →
Grounding a Spiraling Mind
When your thoughts feel like they're spinning too fast, this 5-4-3-2-1 technique can bring you back to the present moment. By focusing on your five senses, you can anchor yourself and find your center, no matter where you are.
Practice the 5-4-3-2-1 Method →
My Calm Palm
Your hand can be a powerful reminder of your support system and the things that make you feel good. The 'My Calm Palm' activity helps you create a personal calm plan that you can look at any time you need to remember your strengths and who you can turn to for help.
Create Your Calm Plan →Our Supporters
This project is proudly designed by the Elizabeth Fry Society of South Cariboo with generous funding from the Canadian Red Cross.
