Used by 110'12 Classic during their last session with the Year1s! Instructions
Used by 110'12 Classic during their last session with the Year1s! Instructions
Used by 110'12 Classic to highlight the point on how taking initiative is a form of leadership during their session on Leadership. Instruction
Comment from 110'12 Classic: Used by 110'12 Classic during their session on Self-Respect. Instructions
Used by 110'12 Classic during their session on Self-Respect. Possible Scenarios:
#1- Not accepting well deserved compliments: After receiving praise from someone, girl goes ‘No la, it was nothing. I anyhow do one, I was just lucky’. #2- Comparing with others then feeling that they’re not good enough: Girl was very happy with her results, but after comparing with others, she didn’t feel good about herself anymore. #3- Placing all the blame on herself, when it’s not entirely her fault: When the response from the class on a group work is poor, girl blames herself for everything. #4- Doing something that she doesn’t like and even putting on a smile just to please/ not offend the other party: Girl A orders Girl B to run back to class to take her pen, when they are halfway eating. Girl B is tired and thinks to herself that she would rather not do it. But, Girl B still does it anyway just so she does not anger Girl A. Feel free to come up with more on your own!(: Used by 110'12 Classic during their session on Self-Respect. Used by 110'12 Classic during their session on Resilience. A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me what you see.” “Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, mother?” Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity — boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water. “Which are you?” she asked her daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?” Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength? Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart? Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you able to be resilient like the coffee bean? Comment from 110'12 Classic regarding stories: Used by 110'12 Classic during their session on Resilience. Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother's womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the world for the first time and shakes off the last vestiges of the birthing fluid from its eyes and ears. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its offspring to the reality of life.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she positions herself directly over her calf. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She swings her long, pendulous leg outward and kicks her baby, so that it is sent sprawling head over heels. When it doesn't get up, the violent process is repeated over and over again. The struggle to rise is momentous. As the baby calf grows tired, the mother kicks it again to stimulate its efforts. Finally, the calf stands for the first time on its wobbly legs. Then the mother giraffe does the most remarkable thing. She kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with the herd, where there is safety. Lions, hyenas, leopards, and wild hunting dogs all enjoy young giraffes, and they'd get it too, if the mother didn't teach her calf to get up quickly and get with it. The late Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished and they go to work. "They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified, and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people who have learnt to be resilient. And at the end of their lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do." Used by 110'12 Classic during their session on Peer Pressure and Bullying. Instructions
What can you take away from this simple activity and how can it be linked to the session topic? Used by 110'12 Classic to start off one of their sessions! Instructions
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