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Written Reflection (2min)
Prompts*:
1.What thoughts and emotions arose?
2.How do these experiences relate to your own encounters with curiosity?
Allow yourself a quiet moment to reflect, write, doodle.
*Remember, there is no right or wrong answer.
Prompts*:
1.What thoughts and emotions arose?
2.How do these experiences relate to your own encounters with curiosity?
*Remember, there is no right or wrong answer.
Allow yourself a quiet moment to reflect, write, doodle.
Pause
Questions:
1.How does the character strength of kindness contribute to creating a 'third space' in our dialogues?
2.In what ways can a Third Space support and enhance our human potential for kindness and empathy?
Allow yourself a quiet moment to reflect on these questions.
Small Group Dialogues
Inspiration
Impulses for Small Actions
Reflections
Integration
Stage 1. Dialogues
Two Steps:
DIALOGUE EVENTS: join live session to connect
TOPIC INTRO: read, reflect, write
Stage 2. Reflections
Two Steps:
MEDIA FORUMS: sharing insights with the larger group
PEER GROUP: a small, private group chat
Stage 3. Integration
Two Steps:
INSPIRATIONS: encouraging peers creatively
HARVEST: highlighting insights
Activity Trial Practice
1.Share Link with Videos
2.Open the Activity Page
Preparations
Session Activity
3.Click on Video (3-2-1)
2.Remind to Keep Video Running
Practical Steps
1.Go to Page with Videos
4.Help Going into Breakout Rooms
Fishbowl Debrief
3.You give brief personal responses
2.Invite SGS* to Share an Inspiration (1min each)
Practical Steps
1.Ask to Turn off Videos
(*Small Group Supporters)
Tech Host
4.Streaming Final Video
2.Creating Breakout Rooms
Practical Steps
1.Letting people into Session
3.Sharing Page with Activity Videos (in Chat)
5.Offering Technical Support
Facilitation Support
4.Supervision Sessions
2.Connect with your Teammate
Practical Elements
1.Trust the tested Session Structure
3.Use your Facilitator Toolkit
Next Steps
2.Commit to Dates (facilitation and support)
Facilitation Training
1.Attend the Post-Session Micro Event
3.Sign our Values Pledge
Next Steps
1.Commit to Dates (facilitation and support)
Facilitation Training
2.Sign our Values Pledge
Intro
1.Letting Participants enter
2.Asking an Arrival Question
Practical Steps
3.Speaking a Warm Welcome
Our Values
Part One
Celebrating Diversity
Initiating Dialogues
Inspiring Learning
Nurturing Community
Our Values
Part Two
Integrating Knowledge
Balancing Technology
Participatory Culture
Our Values
Part Three
Integrating Knowledge
Balancing Technology
Participatory Culture
Nurturing Community
Strength Activation
Orla will guide us through a brief visualisation (3min).
Feel free to write, draw, doodle, or to close your eyes.
Strength Activation
KINDNESS
Linda Huskes, Lead Facilitator, CBE
Written Reflection (2min)
Prompts*:
1.What thoughts and emotions surfaced for you?
2.How do these ideas presented in the videos resonate with your own experiences of authenticity?
Allow yourself a quiet moment to reflect, write, doodle.
*Remember, there is no right or wrong answer.
Pause
Questions:
1.How does the character strength of kindness contribute to creating a 'third space' in our dialogues?
2.In what ways can a Third Space support and enhance our human potential for kindness and empathy?
Allow yourself a quiet moment to reflect on these questions.
Pause
Questions:
1.In your own words, what does the character strength of authenticity/honesty
mean to you?
2.How do you nurture and practice authenticity in your daily life?
Allow yourself a quiet moment to reflect on these questions.
Micro Practice
Steps:
Micro Practice for Random Acts of Kindness. (15 min)
1.Find a quiet space with a pen and journal.
3. Identify the emotions you experienced during that moment.
2. Recall a recent act of kindness, visualising it vividly.
5. Choose one act and decide when and where to carry it out.
4. Write down ways to extend similar acts to others.
Micro Practice
Prompts:
Micro Practice for Authenticity. (15 min)
4. Reflect on the personal qualities and values expressed in that moment.
1.Find a quiet space.
2. Close your eyes, take deep breaths, and centre yourself.
3. Recall a moment of authenticity, visualizing it in detail.
5. Write down these qualities and contemplate their integration into daily life.
Small Group Sharing
Bring your written reflections to your small group.
Sharing Prompts:
1. What thoughts and emotions surfaced for you?
2. How do the ideas presented in the videos resonate with
your own experiences of authenticity?
Pre-Session Reflection (2min)
Prompts:
1. Identify your current emotions.
2. Consider how they might affect your openness
and listening during dialogues.
Dialogue is influenced by our levels of self-awareness and emotions.
Pre-Session Reflection (2min)
Prompts:
1. Which emotions best describe how you're feeling today?
2. How might your current emotions potentially impact your interactions?
3.Choose one strategy to support you to stay present during the session (e.g. mindfulness, deep breathing, or turning off devices).
Our emotions and self-awareness affect our conversations.
This activity will further help to cultivate self-awareness and empathy,
leading to more enriching and authentic conversations.
Small Groups
Sharing Prompts:
1.What thoughts and emotions arose within you?
2.How do these concepts presented in the videos resonate with your personal experiences of kindness?
Share some take aways from your written reflection
and deepen connections in your group.
Billy Nye
"Everyone you will ever meet
knows something you don't."
Community Principles
To nurture Safe/Brave Spaces
Our Community
Safe Spaces: To support Trust Building
Inclusivity: To enable every voice to be heard
Deep Connections: To grow Better Understanding of another
Brave Spaces: To initiate authentic engagement and Participatory Culture
We are dedicated to help uplifting and interactive processes,
through components such as:
Higher Education
1.Employability Skills
(e.g. Communication, Teamwork, Emotional Intelligence)
2.Wellbeing Skills and Character Strengths
(e.g. Resilience, Empathy, Authenticity)
3.Intercultural and Diversity Skills
(e.g. Openness, Wider Perspective)
Interactive group work is essential for supporting students
to develop core skills in areas such as:
1.Employability Skills
(e.g. Communication, Teamwork, Emotional Intelligence)
2.Wellbeing Skills and Character Strengths
(e.g. Resilience, Empathy, Authenticity)
3.Intercultural and Diversity Skills
(e.g. Openness, Wider Perspective)
Interactive group work is essential for supporting students
to develop core skills in areas such as:
Higher Education
Interactive group work is a requirement for accreditation
and provides vast potentials for virtual programs
as it is very difficult to deliver on scale.
Podcast Excerpt
Episode: Dec 07, 2023
Excerpt: 6:17 - 1:31
Podcast Excerpt
Episode #65 / 01:17:40 - 01:24:07
Shining Light Practice = kind, caring feedback
Community Principles
1.We practice Curiosity + Openness
(for Ourselves and Other)
2.We practice Empathic Dialogue
(with Each Other and within Ourselves)
3.We nurture each others' Seeds of Goodness
(We practice self-reflection and trust building)
We are upholding our values by committing to:
"The Steps to Leaps program aims to enhance students'
Wellbeing, Resilience and Character Development.
The model builds on the fundamental understanding that
every student has enormous capacities for growth."
Mission Statement, Steps to Leaps, Purdue University
TEAM
WORK
MENTAL
HEALTH
Inclusivity
Sustainability
TEAM
WORK
MENTAL
HEALTH
Inclusivity
Sustainability
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