Lesson Plan
Personal Healing Blueprint
Guide a 9th-grade student through a structured 30-minute grief counseling session to identify and process emotions, externalize feelings, and develop personalized coping strategies for self-compassion and resilience.
Adolescents experiencing loss benefit from individual support to acknowledge grief, learn healthy coping, and cultivate self-kindness, fostering emotional healing and long-term resilience.
Audience
Time
Approach
Materials
Prep
Review Session Materials
5 minutes
Step 1
Welcome and Grounding
5 minutes
Step 2
Emotion Identification
7 minutes
Step 3
Emotion Mapping
7 minutes
Step 4
Coping Strategies Development
6 minutes
Step 5
Self-Compassion and Closure
5 minutes

Slide Deck
Inner Echoes
Grounding Breath
Session Goals
Identifying Emotions
Emotion Mapping
Brainstorm Coping Strategies
Self-Compassion Letter
Looking Ahead

Script


Worksheet


Cool Down

