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The Creating Calm: 3A Toolkit for Managing Stress and Anxiety

The 3A Toolkit is an integrative clinical framework that supports clients to move towards regulation of their stress and anxiety. This framework incorporates current neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, developmental information, and a combination of cognitive, emotional, relational and physiological regulation strategies. The sections of the 3A Toolkit (Awareness, Assign A Label, Action) will be explained, strategies for body calming and helpful thinking are included, and the integrative ‘debrief’ process will be shared. This workbook will help you assemble your own personal 3A Toolkit to best manage your own stress and anxiety. 

MEG KAPIL, a clinical counsellor, is passionate about increasing access to mental health and wellness for individuals, groups, and families and has worked as an instructor, clinical supervisor, and counsellor. Meg has drawn from her extensive clinical experience to develop the 3A Toolkit approach to managing stress and anxiety. The 3A Toolkit approach has been applied in group and individual counselling settings with children, youth, and adults. In these workbooks, Meg shares an effective approach to addressing anxiety that incorporates current neuroscience, developmental information, and a combination of cognitive, emotional, and physiological regulation strategies.

This workbook will explore the nature of anxiety, including helpful information about how your brain and body are involved in how you experience anxiety. You will also learn about the 3A Toolkit approach to managing stress and anxiety. This includes information about the three sections of the 3A Toolkit: Awareness, Assign a Label, and Action as well as how to use the integrative ‘debrief’ process. Finally, you will build your own personal 3A Toolkit to help you best manage your own stress and anxiety. 

This workbook will explore the nature of anxiety, including helpful information about how your brain and body are involved in how you experience anxiety. You will also learn about the 3A Toolkit approach to managing stress and anxiety. This includes information about the three sections of the 3A Toolkit: Awareness, Assign a Label, and Action as well as how to use the integrative ‘debrief’ process. Finally, you will build your own personal 3A Toolkit to help you best manage your own stress and anxiety. 

https://issuu.com/megkapil/docs/3atoolkit_youth_edition_final  (eflipbook) OR

https://www.lulu.com/account/projects/zz479g  (pdf for download)

Worry can really leave you feeling unsettled, make you afraid to do things, and feel like an unwanted visitor in your life. The 3A Toolkit workbook will help you learn how to shrink your worry so you’ll be able to get back to doing the things you enjoy. This workbook is designed for trusted adults (like a parent, teacher, or counsellor) to read with their favourite small people. Both big and small people will learn helpful strategies from this workbook and be able to build their own personal 3A Toolkit to manage their stress and anxiety. So, as you’re learning all sorts of ways to help with your worry, I hope that you’ll share this new information with others and help people around you, big and little, to try some of the strategies for themselves. 

https://issuu.com/store/publishers/megkapil/issues/book_of_3a_stories_for_children_oct_30  (eflipbook)). OR 

https://www.lulu.com/account/projects/zz47rg  (pdf for download)

This book holds a collection of personal stories of courageous young people facing down their worries, learning how brave they are, and taking over as authors of their own story. These personal narratives were co-created in a therapeutic setting and paint a picture of how to put into action a variety of strategies to manage anxiety and put into action the 3A Toolkit approach to managing stress and anxiety. I hope you enjoy the brave and compassionate ‘main characters’ as they take control of their anxiety!