| Aim | Raise awareness of personal interests and talents, as well as on everything that makes you worth in life. |
| Trainee profile | Any. People with special needs can participate as long as they are able to express themselves. |
| Learning Objectives | To visualize your own strengths
To increase speaking skills. To foster active listening. To raise self-awareness. To build emotional rapport and understanding |
| n° participants | From 9 to 21, ideally a number that can be divided by 3 |
| Duration | 45 minutes |
| Materials | Pens and Sticky notes
A printed paper with the following questions: What is a valuable lesson you learned in your life? What are you truly good at? What would you like to learn to do really, well? What can you do today to begin? What is a great achievement in your life? What makes you truly excited about life? What do you love most about yourself? When was the last time you did something for the very first time? What do you imagine yourself doing 1 year and 5 years from now? What has the fear of failure stopped you from doing? What one step could you take today to begin overcoming that fear? What motivates you to do and be the very best of yourself? What is your number one goal in the next 6 months? What is the biggest obstacle that stands in the way of your happiness and how would you overcome it? How would you describe yourself or what are the key words that represent you? |
| Preparation | Create and print a file with the questions in the Materials section |
| Implementation | 1. Form groups of 3 people each. Have them sit or find a place far away from one another.
2. Tell the participants that in each group there will be 1 interviewer, 1 interviewee and 1 assistant. The interviewer will read the questions in the printed paper to the interviewee, who will have to answer them at their pace. The assistant will write down in the post the key words or values or strengths or positive actions that the interviewee reveals. One post should contain one key word or one key sentence and should remain attached to the stack. The interviewer may ask other related questions if they feel like. 3. Give 10 minutes to answer the questions. 4. After that, the assistant will draw one post of it per time and place it on the interview’s body (arms, chest, legs, forehead, etc.) while telling him/her what is written on it and why. Soon the interviewee will see himself/herself filled with positive key words that he/she was not aware of possessing. 5. At the end, have the participants swap roles until they have all been the interviewees |
| Debriefing | None, let them free to have informal talks amongst them. This activity may be emotional and being with their peers is the best support they can have. |
| Tips and hints | Keep track of time and inform the participants when the time is almost up.
Let the participants know it is normal if they have difficulty answering it immediately |
| Safety measures | Have the groups far away from one another. |
| Added value | Questions have a dramatic effect on everything you do in life. Whatever you focus on the most will eventually become your reality. By training yourself to consciously ask empowering questions, regardless of your circumstances, you will be able to direct your mind to focus on new possibilities and solutions. |
| Variances | Participants are allowed to think up and ask additional questions to raise the interviewees’ self-esteem. |