I've got a bunch of tricks up my sleeve from those days, but the most important one I learned was: set the timer five minutes ...

so there are 12 × 5 = 60 minutes in an hour. Let's use this knowledge to tell the time on the clocks below. This clock shows 5 minutes past 2 o'clock, or ' 5 past 2 '. This clock shows 20 minutes ...

In a recent therapy group I led on Zoom, I set my timer for a minute as my clients pinched their noses and tried to breathe only through thin coffee straws.