Safety & Person-Centered Focus
PRESENTERS: Adapt the introduction to your audience. Here are some OPTIONAL visuals .
Child Imagining with eyes closed
Introduction (2-3 Min)
This week’s theme: Imagination and Real Life
A famous saying is "LIfe imitates art." It means that human beings often imitate what is in our imaginations in the real world. It seems easy to tell the difference between imagination and real life, but is it?
This week’s Skill Builder: Presenting Information
An important life skill is communicating information to others. Some examples are leading your ISP meeting or making a toast at a wedding or other event. We'll practice presenting information all week.
Theme Activity - (15-20 min * show and share blends into this activity)
Superheroes, mythological and real life heroes
Show one or more of these examples:
Fictional Characters:
Real People:
Learn about these *three examples of heroes on the worksheet using the videos below. Mark real or imaginary for each.
Discuss at least 2 questions from 1-5 below, then talk about # 6.
- What makes a person, or a character, a hero?
- Until recently we had to call female heroes “heroines” but now we can call anyone of any gender a hero. Sometimes people use the word “shero” to say a hero is a female. Is it important to know if a heroic person is male or female?
- Are mythological heroes, like Hercules, the same as superheroes, like Batman, or different?
- What can REAL heroes do that imaginary heroes can’t?
- What can imaginary heroes do that real heroes can’t?
- In what ways do you try to have the traits of a hero? (staff can answer too... 'cause you're totally heroic!)
- **one last silly, OPTIONAL question... what's your position on capes?
Show and Share
Fill in your own favorite imaginary SUPERHERO on one line of the worksheet and share what you admire about that character. You can add other real or imaginary heroes.
<Body Break>
Skill Builder 01 (15-20 min)
Person-Centered Thinking Exercise
Using *your worksheet "What Matters to Me", write or draw the things that answer the prompts in each shape.
PRESENTERS: You can help people move through the worksheet prompts by sharing screen. If appropriate to your group, demonstrate drawing an answer instead of writing. For low-vision people, describe the prompt and ask for verbal input while others work on their written/drawn responses.
Presenting Practice
- Choose 2 or more pieces of information from your worksheet that you want others to know about you to understand you better.
- Present or show those things about yourself
- Answer any questions about those things
Skill Builder 02 (5 min)
More presenting practice...
Review these safety images
PRESENTERS: It's a slide deck so click "Present" button in upper right to view it full screen
- Each participant can choose an image
- Each person states the safety issue they chose and shares their knowledge about that
Review/Planning
