What is Survival?

How Does it Relate to Our

Lives?
 In your own words, define the word
“survival.”

• Work with your group

• Discuss what you each think it means

• Write your final definition on your handout

 Definition of SURVIVAL

The act of perseverance and endurance in

adverse and unusual circumstances.
 3 Types of Survival
• Physical Survival
– Keeping your body alive
• Emotional Survival
– Maintaining healthy relationships, a healthy
self-image, and the ability to remain aware
and assess your own emotions
• Spiritual Survival
– Investing yourself into personal beliefs,
morals, values, or higher powers such as
God, fate, or destiny.
Physical Survival-Survival Challenge
Example:
A hiker lost in the woods without food,
water, or warm clothing

Your Turn:
What other examples of physical survival
challenges can you think of?
Emotional Survival-Survival Challenge

Example:
Dealing with your parents’ divorce

Your Turn:
What other examples of emotional survival
challenges can you think of?
Spiritual Survival-Survival Challenge

Example:
Struggling with the concept of an afterlife.

Your Turn:
What other examples of spiritual survival
challenges can you think of?
 Conflict
How Does it Relate To
Survival?
 In your own words, define the word
“Conflict.”

• Work in your groups

• Discuss what you each think it means

• Write your final definition in your handout

 Definition of CONFLICT

The incompatibility or interference of one

idea, activity, or desire with another..
 Survival is the Result of Conflict
Conflict presents itself in a variety of forms
several times throughout our lives. We
must adapt to overcome this conflict in
order to salvage our physical, emotional,
and/or spiritual survival.

CONFLICT leads to… SURVIVAL

 5 Types of Conflict
• Person vs. Person:
– Conflicts that develop between two or more people
• Person vs. Nature:
– Conflicts that develop between a person and the natural
environment
• Person vs. Society:
– Conflicts that develop between a person and the traditional
norms of a society
• Person vs. Fate:
– Conflicts that develop between a person and their God, the luck,
good or bad fortune, or fate that they have
• Person vs. Self:
– Conflicts that develop internally between a person and how they
perceive themselves
 Person Vs. Person
Example
A child is bullied by an older, stronger
classmate.

Your Turn

What other examples of Person vs. Person

conflict can you think of?
 Person Vs. Nature
Example
A person contracts a serious virus.

Your Turn
What other examples of Person vs. Nature
conflict can you think of?
 Person vs. Society
Example
A woman’s car is vandalized because she
has a “Gay Pride” bumper sticker.

Your Turn
What other examples of Person vs. Society
conflict can you think of?
 Person vs. Fate
Example
A person is born blind.

Your Turn
What other examples of Person vs. Fate
conflict can you think of?
 Person vs. Self
Example
A young girl struggles with her own self-
image, so she becomes bulimic.

Your Turn
What other examples of Person vs. Self
conflict can you think of?
 Journal #1:
Check for Understanding: What kinds of survival
challenges or conflicts do people face today?
What kinds of challenges or conflicts did
Holocaust victims have to overcome in order to
survive?

Personal Connection: Describe a situation in which

you had to physically, emotionally, or spiritually
survive. What kind of conflict did you have to
overcome, and how did you do it? What did the
experience teach you?