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Getting Brain Fit: Needs & Skills

1 Cups and cards I know my own cups of need.

I have scaled the Big 5C Needs (and maybe every need card).
2 Needs Scaling I now know how well each of my needs are being met at different

times and in different places.

3 Affect Spotting I am able to notice pleasant and unpleasant feelings and have lots
of words to describe this ‘affect’. I am emotional literate.

4 Pleasant Curious I have worked out what needs are met well when I have pleasant feelings.

5 Helpful/unhelpful I have worked out whether the way I meet each need is helpful or less helpful for
me and for others.

Cup Filling / I have planned helpful ways to fill any cups of need which are not yet ‘just right’
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Daily Dose Plan and get my Daily Dose

Let’s Get Prickle I have worked out the needs which are not met well when I have unpleasant
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Curious feelings and know that these are my ‘stressors’.

8 Stress Busting I have worked out ways to reduce my stressors.

9 Skill Scaling I have scaled my Control Centre skills and know which I find easy and which are
harder for me.

10 Skill Building I know which skills I need to work on & have a plan of baby steps & action to help
me.

11 Skill Scaffolding I know when and where I need support whilst I build skills & have planned ways
to help me manage.