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My body, heart and mind |
Taking care of my body, heart and mind |
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Discuss what makes people healthy and happy. |
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My body, heart and mind |
Feelings, needs and thoughts |
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See the different faces we make when we feel differently, try out making the different faces whilst looking in a mirror. |
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My body, heart and mind |
Feelings, needs and thoughts |
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Use feelings and needs cards with pictures to express how I feel or what I need. |
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My body, heart and mind |
Feelings, needs and thoughts |
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Learn about different emotions. |
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My body, heart and mind |
Taking care of my body, heart and mind |
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Say thank you to our bodies for all the things they enable us to do. |
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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 |
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 |
Resolving conflict |
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Tell your story about a wonderful relationship you have (with a friend, elder, an animal, a dream, etc). |
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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 |
Group decision making |
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Compare making decisions in small groups and large groups. |
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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 |
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. |