Implementation Guide: The Blueprint

Blueprint Worksheet 5

The Blueprint: Current Situation Other Person(s) feel?
How does
What is happening?
Me
How do I feel?

What is causing my feelings? What is causing ‘s feelings?

How am I express and regulate my How is express and
feelings?
regulate his/her feelings?

What can I do now to handle the situation more effectively?
Overall, what is the best solution to this problem?

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Blueprint Worksheet 6

The Blueprint: Future Situation

What is the upcoming challenging situation?

Me Other Person(s)

How might I feel? How might feel?

What might cause me to feel this way? What might cause ‘s
feelings?

How might I express and regulate How might express
my feelings?
and regulate his/her feelings?

What could I do to handle the situation as best as possible?
Overall, what might be the best solution to this problem?

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Blueprint Worksheet 7

Types of Open-ended Questions

1. Objective Questions 2. Reflective Questions

• What happened? • What else have you
• What happened next? explored / thought of?
• Who were the key people
• How do you think an outsider
involved? watching the situation may
• How did you respond? have seen it?
• What else can you tell me
• What did you hope to
about achieve?
what happened?
• How would you have liked to
respond?

• What could you have done
differently?

3. Interpretive Questions 4. Decisional Questions

• What have you learned • What will you do next?
so far? • How can you…?
• Why do you think that
• What were the implications?
What happened as a result trying… would be helpful?
of that? • What would be useful for…?
• How would you like
• What prompted you to…?
• How would you know if…? to respond?
• Why do you think that…?

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