PDF tools
Below you will find a collection of documents (studies, activities, worksheets, assessment tools, etc) helpful in understanding and using Morita School approaches.
The tools are organized in a way we have found helpful for intervention planning. In truth, the categories are are arbitrary. Most of these tools can be adapted to illustrate a variety of concepts depending on how they are used.
We are constantly discovering, developing, and testing new tools. The tools you find here are those our clients responded to. If you have suggestions about tools you would like to see here, we would love to hear from you.
The tool is not the therapy. The only measure of true progress is a persons ability to take actions in the service of living the life they want to be living. These tools are only useful to the degree that they help to serve that purpose.
UNWORKABILITY OF CONTROL EFFORTS (CREATIVE HOPELESSNESS)
GROUP EXERCISE: WHO'S YOUR RULER?
handout:morita controllable table
EXERCISE: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
group exercise: leaky canoe
ACCEPTANCE (COEXISTING WITH UNPLEASANT FEELINGS)
GAME CARDS: THE ACCEPTANCE GAME
group exercise: arm's length
exercise: Kintsugi cards
DE-FUSION (DISENTANGLING FROM YOUR THOUGHTS)
GAME CARDS: THE DEFUSING GAMe
EXERCISE: AUTO-PROBLEM SOLVING MIND
game cards: Thoughts, voices, beliefs, emotions, and sensations
gAME CARDS: STICKY THOUGHTS
GROUP EXERCISE: FLOCK IT
GROUP EXERCISE: DEFUSION POWER POINT
GROUP EXERCISE: TREACHERY OF IMAGES
MINDFULNESS
ARTICLE:MINDFUL GUIDE TO SLEEP AND BALANCED LIVING
book: mindfulness in plain english
ATTENTION SKILLS
handout: tendencies of attention
EXERCISE: 12 ATTENTION EXERCISES
EXERCISE: TENDENCIES OF ATTENTION ILLUSTRATION
PERSPECTIVE TAKING
GAME CARDS:THE SELF GAME
guided imagery:google earth
VALUES
GAME CARDS: THE VALUES GAME
GROUP EXERCISE: PATH FINDER
Group Exercise: values auction
group exercise: island get away
EXERCISE:VALUES BLUE PRINT
art exercise: values web
group exercise:the box
COMMITTED ACTIONs
group exercise: build a tower
GROUP EXERCISE: ACTION CARDS
INTEGRATION OF ALL CONCEPTS
GROUP ACTIVITIES: WINNER'S cUP
group activities: nasa survival challenge
group activities: pacific survival challenge
group exercise: bridge building
group exercise: act map
GROUP EXERCISE: MYSTERY GAME
GROUP EXERCISE: MIN(E)D FIELD
GROUP EXERCISE: SUPER BETTER
group exercise: puzzling
SUPPORTIVE DOCUMENTS:
The following resources include research articles and documents that can be helpful in supporting the use and understanding of Morita School approaches.
act randomized controlled trials 1986-2015
PROCESSING EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVITIES USING DNA-V