2. This exercise is all about getting to know your inner voice better. How do you talk to yourself when you face a challenge? Are you compassionate? Do you speak to yourself like you are your own best friend? Or are you a little more harsh and critical? Which voice do you think helps you reach your goals? Answer a few of these questions on your recording page.

3. Read about the challenges below and see how a self-critical voice (left column) sounds versus a self-compassionate one (right column). Compare how these two different voices affect the character you’re reading about. Write 2 sentences on your recording page.

4. Next time you have an adversity, take a moment to notice how your inner voice sounds. See if you can choose to speak to yourself with greater compassion. Speak to yourself like a best friend would speak to you. On your recording page, explain a situation during your week that you tried to follow the suggestion from this step.

5.  Your turn? Use one of the templates below to write in what you think a self-critical and self-compassionate voice sounds like. You can even use the last challenge you faced as an example. Make two columns on your recording page to write your dialogue.

6.  Share your SEL mini spark recording page with your teacher or the EY coordinator in your building.