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 Wanting To
Reduce
Objectives:
After this exercise the participants are expected to:
1. Take the risk of self-disclosure using the knowledge
about them for the purpose of empathy and assistance
2. Select a person who can be trusted, and
3. Reduce one’s hang –ups to a certain extent.
 Procedure:
A. Fill up the following incomplete
Sentence Form.
(Reported by my groupmate)
 Procedure:
B. After completing the Sentence
Form, put weighs before the
number of each completed
sentence from 1 – 20, following
this code.
 Codes:
1. Hardly disturbing
2. Moderated disturbing
3. Seriously disturbing
 Procedure:
C. Sum up your item scores per
area and enter them in the grid
below:
*Join the points to make a graph and
check one or two peaks on the graph.
Summed
Score
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
2
Subordina
Areas Family Work Colleague Friends
 Procedure:
D. After accomplishing letter B,
form dyads or quartets to
discuss the tow peaks on your
graph.
 Processing:
Cognitive:
1. Was it easy to reveal your confidential
experiences?
2. How much of the store of hidden thoughts
were you filtering, i.e., restructuring to appear
more socially acceptable?
 Processing:
Cognitive:
3. If you were open, why did you open up?
4. If you were strongly filtering, what motivates
you to do so?
5. How much disclosure of inner thoughts and
feelings do you think people should risk?
 Processing:
Cognitive:
6. What are the pros and cons of self –
revelation?
7. Discuss the value of disclosure in the Filipino
culture.
 Processing:
affective:
1. How did you find this task?
Threatening? Disturbing? Stimulating?
Other feelings if any.
2. Would you recommend going through similar
exercises with your intimate friends?
 Processing:
affective:
3. Do you feel that the group climate is the
more cohesive after the exercises?
4. Do you wish you never had to reveal the
hidden thoughts you shared with the group?
 REFERENCES:
Group Dynamics with Structured Games
and Readings by: Lourdes L. Evangelista,
Ed.D and Miriam A. Padolina