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My community |
Communication |
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Recognise how another person is feeling; practice by looking at a video or pictures and discussing the signs that tell us about the person's emotions. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Practice narrating events that happened during the day during "harvest" sessions; giving opportnities to everyone (including quieter children) to express themselves. |
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My community |
Resolving conflict |
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Learn conflict resolution skills: mediating a conflict between two friends by listening to both sides and helping them to listen to each other and find a solution. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Create and tell a story to other children or younger children. |
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My community |
Communication |
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List words that support and encourage, and compare with a list of words that can hurt. Compare how you feel when the different lists are spoken. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Give feedback, and listen to feedback in a nice way, making sure that you start with a positive, and then a suggested improvement, and finish on a positive note. |
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My community |
Communication |
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Learn the skill of active listening - reflecting back what someone else said to be sure you really understood. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Visit local places that serve the community e.g. fire station, hospital. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Make a map of the neighbourhood with community resources labelled. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Participate in organising a celebration. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Contribute to the wider community through voluntary work, and feel appreciated for it. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Play trust games. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Learn about the local political systems and how party politics works. |
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My community |
Living in community |
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Visit an intentional community (such as a housing cooperative, or ecovillage) and discuss how it differs from other communities. |
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My community |
Group decision making |
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Observe a group making a (sociocratic) decision, then ask did everyone get a voice? Was it fair? |
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My community |
Group decision making |
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Make a group decision in different ways, compare and contrast e.g. democratic voting (as in first past the post democracy), consent decision making process (as practiced in sociocracy), whoever speaks first/loudest etc. |
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My community |
Group decision making |
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Connect with each other before making a group decision (play a collective game, sing a song together holding hands, etc). |
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My community |
Group decision making |
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Compare making decisions in small groups and large groups. |
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My community |
Resolving conflict |
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Work in groups with people of different ages, stages, abilities, ethnicities, genders etc. |
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My community |
Resolving conflict |
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Tell your story about a wonderful relationship you have (with a friend, elder, an animal, a dream, etc). |
