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Theme: Spa Week — Skill Building: Personal Hygiene
December is about pumping the brakes. It’s been a challenging year and we have learned A LOT! So let's all take a breath, synthesize all this change and focus on being one another's soft place to land as we head into 2021.
Person-Centered Thinking and Safety
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
Introduce Theme of the Week and Skill Builder (2 min)
SPAhhh Week
We'll learn about great ways to TREAT YOURSELF to self-care tools, products and experiences that can improve your appearance AND your mood.
Personal Hygiene and Self-Care
Today we’ll focus on skin care and hygiene
Show & Share (5-10 min)
What do you do to take extra care of yourself, to pamper yourself, or bring a sense of calm into your body and your day? Can you show us any tools that you use to do that?
Tomorrow‘s Show & Share is yesterday’s hair! Share a picture of yourself with a hairstyle that is from another era, or your favorite old-fashioned hair-do from an era you like. Or go all out and actually do your hair in an old-fashioned style.
<Body Break>
Thematic Activity 01 (10-15 min)
What kind of skin do I have? What is basic skin care for my skin type?
- Assess your skin type for sun protection
- Assess your skin type for more advanced care and product choices PRESENTERS: You'll need to enlarge this one by clicking or CTRL and +
Basics—Cleanliness, Safety and Wellness
These videos are aimed at men or women but the tips are true for everyone.
- For men to include shaving tips Video on that page is about 4 min
- For Women
- Moles and your health
Thematic Activity 02 (5-10 min)
What is special skin care for my skin type? Great mask treatments for anyone.
<Body Break>
Skill Builder (5 min)
Exfoliation is using something a little rough to scrub your skin so that it gets rid of the teeny, tiny dead skill cells and reveals your fresh skin cells underneath.
- Buy an exfoliating scrub like these
- Make your own out of sugar, oil and a scent
Optional Discussion Topic
Skin Issues/Conditions
- Do you have skin allergies or sensitivities? Avoid allergenic products, scents, additives and chemicals.
- Do you have blemishes (pimples)? Try Tea Tree Oil from Trader Joe's
- Ever get a small burn or cut? Clean it gently and put on some Aloe vera, neosporen and a bandaid.
- Got sunburned? Aloe vera really helps and moisturize for a few days afterward.
Optional Level Up
Masks – From the store or in your garden or kitchen
Skin and diet – foods that are good for your skin
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Civics Education and Community
Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
Theme of the week is Skill Builder-Spa Week and Personal Hygiene
Today we’ll focus on hair
Recap yesterday’s topics
Skin health, care and safety. Skin treatments for anyone.
Show & Share (5-10 min)
Share a picture of yourself with an older hairstyle. What do you think of that hairstyle now? What did you like about it then? How has your hair changed since that picture? What about from when you were a child?
Tomorrow‘s Show & Share
Gloves! Do you wear gloves in the winter time? What about gloves for chores? Now that we have to be careful of covid do you wear gloves if you are away from home?
<Body Break>
Thematic Activity 01 (10-15 min)
- What kind of hair to do I have? PRESENTERS: Enlarge with CTRL key and the + key, or click on the image when you see the magnifier
- What is basic care for my hair?
- Beard and moustache care PRESENTERS: Enlarge this too--PLEASE make sure they know step 11 is a little joke, not part of the real list.
Fun Song - Timbuk 3 "Hairstyles and Attitudes"
Thematic Activity 02 (5-10 min)
What is special care for my hair? Choose from these to explore or do searches yourselves.
<Body Break>
Skill Builder01
Professional Hair Care -- Manners and Traditions
Optional Level Up
PRESENTERS: This option is interesting. Pantene helped trans people talk about their presentation and their hair, relative to their gender, with respect to their families. There are subtitles because different people are from different countries.
This would be a simple expression of what participants feel or think in response to the video-not a debate or instructional activity.
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
Theme of the week and Skill Builder reminder
- Recap yesterday’s topics—Hair
- Today we’ll focus on nails
Show & Share (5-10 min)
Gloves to protect our hands. What kinds of gloves do you have? There are gloves for almost every kind of situation: tasks, fashion, weather...
Tomorrow‘s Show & Share
Bring your favorite scent to share and tell us about. It can be natural like a flower you like, or from a product you use, like your shampoo or lotion. It can be a perfume or aftershave, a candle, or even a kitchen item, like vanilla.
<Body Break> (5 min)
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
My finger nails and toe nails:
What are they and what do they say about my health? -
PRESENTERS: When viewing informational videos, pause the video after each piece of information and check for understanding.
Nail polish was invented in China and was used by rich people (men and women) to show that they didn't have to do any work with their hands. These days it's just a personal style choice for anyone.
<Body Break>
Skill Builder (5-10 min)
Home pedicures are for EVERYONE. Nail care isn't gender based. Everyone has nails that need good grooming
Toe nails matter too. Common toenail problems
Optional Level Up
Nail care and job interviews. -
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Self-Advocacy and Rights
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
Theme of the week and Skill Builder
Today we’ll focus on body calming and cleansing
Recap yesterday’s topics
Nail care and health
Show & Share (5-10 min)
What's your favorite scent? Is it found in nature or made by people? How long have you liked it? How does it make you feel when you smell it?
Tomorrow‘s Show & Share
Show us a celebrity or star that you think has great style sense. What do they wear that you admire? Do you try to borrow from their style ideas?
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
How does my body tell me it is feeling stressed?
Basic care that helps my body reduce stress
- movement
- stretching
- fresh air
- healthful food
- good sleep
- good relationships
- pets
Thematic Activity 02 (5-10 min)
What is special care that helps my body reduce stress?
PRESENTERS: alert participants that sometimes people hear about detoxing and get advice to ingest certain vitamins or fast or other unusual things. They should not do anything like that without a doctor's supervision. ONLY take in or use products that you have used before and know the effects.
Skill Builders (10-15 min)
Meditation to clear stress. Choose one that suits your group and feelings. The longer one works great if you are super stressed.
- LONG—Learn Tara Brach's R.A.I.N. meditation for fear to help with stress (13 minutes long but worth it for those who can attend to the audio.)
- SHORTER—4 minute body scan by Tara Brach: First one in the list, click play
Optional Level Up (5-10 min)
What is the difference between self-care and self-indulgence?
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Knowledge and Fun with Friends
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
Theme of the week and Skill Builder
Today we’ll focus on make-up, color, and personal style
Recap yesterday’s topics
Stress management with cleansing for the body, mind, and outlook
Show & Share (5-10 min)
What celebrity or star that you think has great style sense. What do they wear that you admire? Do you try to borrow from their style ideas?
Next Week’s Show & Share
Safety lights and safety candles. Do you have some lights in your house that are safe to have on? Do you have any electric candles that look like real candles but can't start a fire? Do you have any REAL candles? What do you do to make sure you use them safely?
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
What are my colors? Understanding how color can bring the best out in your appearance.
- Are you COOL or WARM skin toned?
- Choose colors for clothes (focused on women)
- Color wheel for clothes (focused on men)
Thematic Activity 02 (5-10 Min)
What is my body shape?
How can I dress to show how much I love it?
(Note that our bodies are unique and may not be typical. A male body can have an hour glass shape and a female body can have an inverted triangle. What is usual isn't all there is.)
Skill Builder
Applying makeup
Make up is for ANYONE at different times and for different reasons.
How do YOU use make up and clothes to express yourself? Are there clothes you wear to cheer yourself up? Make up that makes you feel confident? A hair style that you really enjoy?
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Review the Weekend
Go back through the tabs of the week and review the information that your group finds most interesting.
Do searches on topics from the week on a shared screen to find out MORE information.
Tell your group who you might share your new knowledge with.
Share weekend plans.
Take a peek at Friday's activity board.
Troll around Youtube or do other searches for interesting things YOU want to learn about.
Choosing Fun Stuff to Do
Need some help deciding on an afternoon activity?
The activities are numbered. These numbers corrospond to brief activity descriptions listen in the linked document below.
