February 1–5
Theme: Relationships
Skill Building: Identifying Friends Versus Acquaintances
Well Being and Social Connection
February 3, 2021
Today happens to be...
National Women’s Physicians Day
Black History Month—Baseball (1 min video)
Check In (5 min)
Say hi, do yer thing.
Recap Yesterday (3 min)
- Relationships have different levels of closeness.
- Professional relationships are less personal.
- Residents can voice their opinions to city councils.
Show & Share (5-10)
Heartache at the loss of friendship or love. Can you remember a time you had to say good-bye to a friend or loved one? Or, is there a movie or book that you love in which someone gets their heart broken? Tell us about your experience or the story you know.
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Worst date ever? or Love at first chat? Do you have an experience where you really liked someone right away? Or one where you immediately DISLIKED someone? The human heart can be mysterious. Sometimes we like and dislike people for reasons we can't explain.
Portfolio Planner (5 min)
Take a look at this week's pages. Any changes to make to your plans? Update your habit tracker.
Examples of the kinds of changes we make to planners:
- Cross completed items off the list
- Update habit trackers and goals
- Adjust an appointment time if it changed
- Give ourselves encouragement with a sticker or a note
- Add new to-do items like chores or errands
- Put finished worksheets into the February section after the calendar sheets
OPTIONAL: Make an exercise plan using this log*. Then use the habit tracker in your portfolio to mark the days you completed workouts.
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Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Review the shortened description of the personal boundaries story from this week's Level Up Option. Use the prompts to guide learning about boundaries from the story.
IF your group is into it you can read, or re-read the story itself here, but that will take up some time so decide for yourselves.
Wilson Green set up a surprise movie activity for his best friend Ted Wilson and invited six of their friends to participate. Ted was happily surprised to see his friends at the movies.
After the movie started LeDee, one of the women in the group yelled out in the theatre "Stop that you creep! Move before I call the manager." Her friend sitting next to her asked what happened. A stranger had touched her leg and not by accident because he did it a second time after she moved his hand. The stranger moved away.
After the movie they went out to eat and ordered from the server. At one point Katie had to call the server over to because a glass of water had moldy cheese in it. EWWWW! The restaurant paid for Katie's meal.
- What is the difference between a best friend and all our other friends?
- What boundary of appropriate behavior did the stranger in the theatre violate?
- We usually don't speak loudly in the theatre when the movie is playing. That's a kind of boundary. Was LeDee justified in breaking that rule in this situation?
- What kind of relationship do the characters in the story have with the server in the restaurant?
- Can you tell from the story how close the friendships are between the other characters?
Skill Builder (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Use the situations and statements below to practice asserting good boundaries in shared spaces. Have participants change them, make them shorter or more personal.
- Someone cuts in line at the grocery store: I don't really appreciate your cutting in line. If you are in a hurry, you should choose fewer items and use the fast lane.
- A roommate borrows your favorite sweater without asking: I think you know that it's impolite to ASK before borrowing anything. I wouldn't do that to you. Please don't do it again.
- A co-worker or staff person keeps interrupting you during a meeting: Excuse me but it will help me focus if I can finish my thought. I do want to hear what you have to say, but please may I finish?
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Survival Language (5-10 min)
Your group can choose a worksheet as time allows. Complete a Homonym worksheet. REMEMBER: HOMONYMS are words that SOUND the same, but are spelled differently and mean different things.
Practice for Spellers/Writers*
Optional Level-Up
Life Skills Story Questions set 1*
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
