STRUCTURED LEARNING ACTIVITY

TOPIC: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

(Develop Skills for Starting and Maintaining Friendships)

ACTIVITY: Get to Know You Sociometric Questions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
 To provide a fun beginning.
 To relax initial social anxieties.
 To help create mutual respect and understanding to attain and
maintain friendships.

ORIENTATION: The facilitator’s warmth and friendly encouragement

will help to break natural hesitancy. Laughter is very healthy. The
facilitator will give a brief description on the activity; it is a sequence
of questions which help students to find out about one another, move
around, and have fun.

INSTRUCTIONS AND ACTIVITY:

1. This activity is simply a series of "sociometric" questions which

require participants to arrange themselves in space in relation
to other people according to various individual and social
characteristics.

2. (5-15 minutes).

 Find someone who:

o had the same breakfast as you
o has the same shoe size (or has the same size hand)
o has a different religious belief
o you haven't met yet, but would really like to
o has the same favorite season
o has the same favorite sense
  Walk to / arrange yourselves according to:
o the place where you were born
o the place where you live
o a place you would like to visit
o a place where a memorable event took place for you
o also see People Map

 Lineup according to:

o number of siblings
o thumb size
o number of glasses of water (or cups of caffeine) you drink
per day
o introversion / extraversion
o how tired / alert you feel
o number of different countries you've visited

3. Add variations if needed.

PROCESSING:

Data Gathering

Some process questions that may be asked:

1. How did you feel when you were able to find/ meet someone
who matches what you were looking for?

2. In what way has this activity helped you in building social

relationships?

Analysis-Synthesis

The facilitator analyzes and summarizes the gathered data by getting

commonalities. He expands on the meaning of starting and
maintaining friendships through mutual respect and understanding.

TOPIC: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

(Make Myself Attractive to Others)
ACTIVITY: 5 Ways to Make Yourself Highly Attractive

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

 To build up confidence
 To know the importance of self-worth

ORIENTATION:

INSTRUCTIONS AND ACTIVITY:

Here are five simple ways to focus on yourself in a positive way,

letting go of what other people think and making yourself highly
attractive as a result:

1. Make a list of what you appreciate about yourself.

You're a great person. You have unique qualities that are all your own.

There isn't anyone on the planet that is exactly like you. Let's

celebrate that!

Ask yourself: Who am I? What's great about me? How am I

unique? Write your answers down on paper.

Then, appreciate yourself! The more you do this, the better you'll feel.

2. Make a list of who you want to become.

We are all simultaneously being and becoming. So … who are you

evolving into?

Ask yourself: Who do I want to become? and write your goals down on

paper.

As you think about your desires and hopes for the future, you're

honoring your dreams. This makes you excited for what's to come, and

strengthens your belief in yourself.

3. Spend quality time with yourself (at least 30 minutes daily).

Quality time is important in all relationships — including the

relationship you have with yourself.

There are many things you can do during quality time with you —

reading, running, hiking, meditating, listening to music, thinking, and

journaling, making art, cooking — the possibilities are endless.

Just do something that you like to do and enjoy your own company!

Really, it's as simple as that.

4. Get to know your fears.

Nothing boosts confidence quite like making it through challenges. By

facing your fears, you get to prove what you're made of.

Ask yourself: What am I scared of? and then …challenge it.

Look your fears in the eye and show them who's boss. It's the only

way you're going to move past them into a better way of life.

5. Do something nice for yourself today.

This is your life. It's going to be as good as you make it. Take charge

of your well-being by doing nice things for yourself every single day.

A "nice thing" could be anything that makes you happy — write

yourself a love note, take a walk in a park, pat yourself on the back,

smile at yourself in the mirror. Treat yourself with supreme kindness

and respect. Your inner confidence will soar as a result.

The more you love and accept yourself, the less you'll focus on what

other people think. And, ironically, the less you focus on what other

people think, the more attractive you become.

Practice these techniques; get to know who you really are. Your

confidence will skyrocket as a result, and your relationships will

flourish, too.
Title: The Blindfolded Walk

Learning Objectives: To enable students to increase their

understanding of communication and ways of communicating

To stress the significance of good communication skills.

Target Behavior: Improving communication skills

Materials Needed: Piece of cloth for blindfold

Instruction and Activity:

To play this game, create an obstacle course. Then assign players to

one of two roles. Blinded players will wear blindfolds. Leaders will take
blinded players by the hand and attempt to lead them through the
course. Talking is encouraged, and, when they are finished, players
should reverse their roles.
Title: Web of Respect

Activity: Learning to respect elderly

Learning objectives:

To discuss the meaning of respect and reinforce respect.

To learn how to respect the elders and other people

Instructions and Activity:

All participants learning and gaining appreciation sit in a circle on the

floor to create a web of respect. Not only should children learn to
respect their elders but mature people should gain respect for children
as well. One person holds the end of a ball of yarn and makes one
respectful statement about another participant while gently tossing the
ball to him (still holding the yarn's end). That person states a different
declaration of respect about another participant and, while keeping
hold of the yarn strand, tosses the ball to him. The action repeats until
all members have respectfully described each other. The web of
respect game results in a beautiful yarn design in the circle's center.