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The Calm Space in the counseling office is a supportive therapeutic environment which assists students in learning and practicing their self-calming strategies by offering them an environment of relaxation. They are designed and furnished to provide an area of low stimulus and provide mindfulness and destressing activities. It can offer students working with each other to relieve stress or also offers an absence of peer interpersonal interactions for the purpose of tension reduction. A Calm Space is used as a tool to teach students calming techniques in order to decrease agitation, aggressiveness, irritation, sadness, etc. It can be can be a place for student’s to be sent after acting out in the classroom. This gives them the chance to calm themselves before trying to process the cause of their actions/misbehavior. They can develop skills here that they can use outside of school to benefit their wellbeing; self-awareness, resiliency, and self-care. Calm spaces also provide a space for students to go to prevent teacher “burn out”. If a student is acting out, over stressed, upset, etc. the counselor's office is available for them to let go of negativity and return fresh to their classroom in a better state to learn. In turn, It provides a safe place for the teacher to send the student who may be a distraction to the other students in their classroom. This supportive environment will provide tools to help students understand their behavior and refocus.

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The Calm Space in the counseling office is a supportive therapeutic environment which assists students in learning and practicing their self-calming strategies by offering them an environment of relaxation. They are designed and furnished to provide an area of low stimulus and provide mindfulness and destressing activities. It can offer students working with each other to relieve stress or also offers an absence of peer interpersonal interactions for the purpose of tension reduction. A Calm Space is used as a tool to teach students calming techniques in order to decrease agitation, aggressiveness, irritation, sadness, etc. It can be can be a place for student’s to be sent after acting out in the classroom. This gives them the chance to calm themselves before trying to process the cause of their actions/misbehavior. They can develop skills here that they can use outside of school to benefit their wellbeing; self-awareness, resiliency, and self-care. Calm spaces also provide a space for students to go to prevent teacher “burn out”. If a student is acting out, over stressed, upset, etc. the counselor's office is available for them to let go of negativity and return fresh to their classroom in a better state to learn. In turn, It provides a safe place for the teacher to send the student who may be a distraction to the other students in their classroom. This supportive environment will provide tools to help students understand their behavior and refocus.

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