Telling Workshop (Half Day)
Essential question:
What is my story and how does it connect to your story?
Objectives:
Empathetic people aren’t just skilled at navigating other people’s emotions, they’re
in touch with their own feelings too. Self-awareness is a foundation for empathy.
The workshop introduces personal story sharing through visual representation,
written work and practical activities. The workshop will also allow learners to make
visual connections with the experiences of their classmates.
The learners will come out seeing that there are far more things we have in
common with others, than differences. It also shows how love and acceptance
among people can flow when they realise that they don’t have to maintain artificial
boundaries or boxes.
Keywords:
- Emotional awareness
- Mood index
- Emotion RULER
- Self-awareness
- Mindfulness
- Public and private telling
Materials (where relevant, these are included directly in the course content in this online version):
Workshop outline
| Component | Time |
|---|---|
| Introduction | |
| Activity: Pass the dace | 15 min |
| Body | |
| SECTION A: Emotions | |
| Activity: What do I feel? | 5 min |
| Activity: Emotional awareness | 15 min |
| SECTION B: Story-sharing | |
| Activity: My story in post-its | 20 min |
| BREAK | 15 min |
| Activity: Save the last word for me | 50 min |
| Conclusion | |
| Activity: All that we share | 20 min |
| Activity: Stew pot | 10 min |
Course Content
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Introduction
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Section AActivity 1: What do I feel? (5 min)Activity 2: Emotional awareness (10 min)
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Section BActivity 1: My story in post-its (20 min)Activity 2: Save the last word for me (50 min)
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ConclusionActivity 1: All that we share (20 min)Activity 2: Stew pot (10 min)