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The document provides guidance on practicing mindfulness skills in a nonjudgmental, focused, and effective manner. It discusses noticing facts without judgment, acknowledging situations without evaluation, focusing full attention on one task at a time without distractions, and acting skillfully to achieve goals while releasing negative emotions. The skills are meant to help individuals gain more control over their thoughts and behaviors. Homework is assigned to practice one skill during the week and reflect on the experience.

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Lesson 5 Handouts

The document provides guidance on practicing mindfulness skills in a nonjudgmental, focused, and effective manner. It discusses noticing facts without judgment, acknowledging situations without evaluation, focusing full attention on one task at a time without distractions, and acting skillfully to achieve goals while releasing negative emotions. The skills are meant to help individuals gain more control over their thoughts and behaviors. Homework is assigned to practice one skill during the week and reflect on the experience.

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HANDOUT 5.

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R W E
Mindfulness: “How Skills”
Nonjudgmentally
• Notice, but don’t evaluate or judge. Stick to the observable facts.
• Acknowledge the harmful and the helpful, but don’t judge it. For example, replace
“He’s a jerk” with “He walked away while we were talking.”
• You can’t go through life without making judgments; your goal is to catch them so
you have more control over your emotions.
• When you find yourself judging, don’t judge your judging.
• Discriminating/differentiating judgments:
• Evaluating judgments:
• Three steps to being nonjudgmental:
1.
2.
3.

One-Mindfully
• Stay focused: Focus your attention on only one thing in this moment. Slow yourself
down to accomplish this.
• Stop doing two things at once (the opposite of multitasking).
• Concentrate your mind: Let go of distractions, and refocus your attention when it
drifts, again and again.
• Stay focused so that the past, future, and current distractions don’t get in your way.

Effectively
• Be effective: Focus on what works to achieve your goal.
• Don’t let emotions control your behavior, cutting the cord between feeling and doing.
• Play by the rules (which may vary at home, school, work).
• Act as skillfully as you can to achieve your goals.
• Let go of negative feelings (e.g., vengeance and useless anger) and “shoulds” (e.g.,
“My teacher should have . . . ”) that can hurt you and make things worse.

Adapted with permission from Rathus and Miller (2015). Copyright © The Guilford Press.

From DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) by James J. Mazza,
Elizabeth T. Dexter-Mazza, Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, and Heather E. Murphy. Copyright © 2016 The Guilford Press.
Permission to photocopy this material is granted to purchasers of this book for personal use or use with individual students
(see copyright page for details). Purchasers can download additional copies of this material (see the box at the end of the table
of contents).

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HOMEWORK 5.2
R W E
Mindfulness: Practicing “How” Skills
Name:
Due Date:

Check off one “how” skill that you practiced during the week:
Nonjudgmentally
One-mindfully R W E

Effectively

Briefly describe your experience of using the skill during the week (include when and
where you used it):

Briefly describe whether the skill affected your thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. If so,
how?

If you did not complete this practice exercise, please explain why not/what interfered:

Adapted with permission from Rathus and Miller (2015). Copyright © The Guilford Press.

From DBT Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) by James J. Mazza,
Elizabeth T. Dexter-Mazza, Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, and Heather E. Murphy. Copyright © 2016 The Guilford Press.
Permission to photocopy this material is granted to purchasers of this book for personal use or use with individual students
(see copyright page for details). Purchasers can download additional copies of this material (see the box at the end of the table
of contents).

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