Core Mindfulness Skills

Core Mindfulness Skills

Learn the Core Mindfulness DBT Skills. Improve sense of self, emotional balance, and compassion. Develop a nonjudgmental stance and reduce impulsive behavior.

Core Mindfulness Skills
  • Introduction to Mindfulness

    Mindfulness helps us to develop a stronger identity, be less reactive, and view the world and ourselves in a less judgmental way. Learn how Mindfulness can enhance your life.

  • Wise Mind

    Learn Emotion Mind, Reasonable Mind, and Wise Mind. Learn how each mind is valuable and when it may not be helpful. Learn how to bring yourself into Wise Mind.

  • "What" Mindfulness Skills

    Learn "What" to do in mindfulness. Learn how to observe, describe, and participate.

  • "What" Skills: Ideas for Practicing Handout

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  • "How" Mindfulness skills

    Learn "How" to do mindfulness. Learn how to be one-mindfully, nonjudgemental, and effective.

  • Daily Mindfulness Journal

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  • Loving Kindness

    Learn how to increase positive feelings towards yourself and others.

  • Doing Mind vs Being Mind

    Doing Mind and Being Mind are ways that we describe different mind states in DBT. Learn about how to identify these two states of mind as well as Wise Mind and better understand the importance of balancing these mind states.