Using Intentional Stillness to Deal with Anxiety Primary
This lesson applies intentional stillness specifically to anxiety management. Students learn how anxiety manifests in the body and mind, and how stillness practices can be used as an immediate and longer-term tool for reducing anxiety and building emotional resilience.
Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1:
Understand the nature and experience of anxiety and its physical/mental symptoms
Outcome 2:
Identify personal anxiety triggers and responses
Outcome 3:
Apply intentional stillness techniques as an anxiety management strategy
Outcome 4:
Develop a personal toolkit for managing anxiety using stillness practices
What's included
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Contributing Experts
People who helped produce this lesson.
Amy Bradshaw
Amy Bradshaw is an strategic school leader with 20+ years experience. Multi Academy Trust Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead and teaching experience at every stage. Qualified Mindfulness practitioner for adults and children and Bounce Forward Associate Trainer. Amy is passionate about making mental health the golden thread that runs through the heart of school and communities.
About the Organisation
Bounce Forward is a registered charity on a mission to transform how we think about mental health, shifting the narrative from deficit and crisis to strength, prevention, and psychological fitness. They create evidence-based programmes, curricula, and training that give young people, school staff, and the adults around children the knowledge, language, and daily habits to build genuine mental resilience. From whole-staff training to five-year school curricula, everything they do is practical, grounded in science, and designed to make a lasting difference not just in the moment, but across a lifetime.