Healthy Minds

Dealing with Anxiety

This lesson focuses specifically on how anxiety interferes with learning and exam performance, and reinforces two key tools for managing it: calming and focusing techniques (harnessing emotions) and WoBbLe (taming catastrophising Gremlin Beliefs). Through an ABC worked example where the Consequence is given first, students identify what Activating Events and Beliefs might be driving exam-related anxiety, then practise WoBbLe on three real exam-pressure scenarios.

Learning Outcomes

Outcome 1:

Identify when anxiety is getting in the way of my learning or my ability to do my best in tests and exams

Outcome 2:

Reinforce my knowledge of the WoBbLe skill

Outcome 3:

Reinforce my skills for harnessing emotions

What's included

A quick look at the classroom-ready resources that come with this lesson.

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Healthy Minds Teacher Guide — Resilience Competencies page 8
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Student Handbook — WoBbLe Worksheets page 15
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