Introductory Video:

Suggested activities:

Activity	Description	Time
Positive thinking homework discussion	Ask students for their experiences, thoughts and difficulties with homework assignment	5 min
Identifying our feelings video	Show the identifying our feelings introductory video	5 min
Video discussion	Ask the students for their thoughts about the video and what they understood	5 min
Role playing	Ask the students to divide themselves in groups of three and give each group a copy of the 3 identifying our feelings cases. One of the people in each group should pick one case and tell another in the group about the situation as if they were telling a friend.  The third person in the group should watch and later discuss what they think the first person was feeling.  After each case the students should change roles so that each plays person 1, person 2 and the observer.	30 min
Role playing discussion	Discuss the role playing exercise with all of the class and ask for their thoughts and experiences	5 min
Total time		50 min

Materials:

–Identifying our feelings worksheet

– Feeling wheel

Homework: 

Give each student a feeling wheel. Ask the students to use the feeling identification worksheet to write about 5 situations over the week when they had a strong feeling

Other resources you may find useful:

– DBT Skills Training Manual by Marsha M. Linehan. Second edition, 2015.