Page 12 - Course 2 Brain Needs Series: Cups of Needs Model

Fill Cups ‘Just right’

To feel great and perform at our very best, our cups of need should be ‘just right’ – full, but not overflowing.
Think Goldilocks!

I feel I feel I feel cared I feel capable, The task is
comfortable. comfortable. for. certain and in interesting. It is
I feel I count. control the right challenge,
My body feels I have the right quantity and pace
good. amount of sensory I feel people like I feel I can do some for me.
input for my body me. things really well and I can make sense of
I’m not hungry or to feel ok. when it’s hard for me, the learning.
thirsty and my I feel listened to I feel I can get better.
body feels The light, smell and noticed in I am being given the
comfortable and and sound levels ways that make me I feel a sense of right amount of
painfree. are ok for me. feel good. control over what is information in a way
happening to me. I can remember well
I feel healthy and The amount of I feel cared for and and keeps me
full of energy. movement is ok an important, I feel sure of what interested.
and nothing is valued part of the will be happening and
bothering my skin. group. what is expected of The speed of
me information is ok for
me.

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