Week Four

WEEK FOUR: Relationship Skills

Habit Practice Options

Option 1: Identifying and offering support

Practice identifying support for yourself and offering it to others.

1. Find one new support and use it.

2. Offer support to someone else.

Answer the following questions by writing or recording a video:

➔ What support did you choose and why?

➔ Was this new support effective? Why or why not?

➔ How did it feel to try something new?

➔ Who did you choose to support?

➔ How did they respond to your offer?

➔ How did it feel to offer support to someone else?

Option 2: Listening skills

Have youth complete activity with a member of their household or virtually with another student.

Questions examples:

➔ What is a favorite childhood memory?

➔ What are you most passionate about and why?

➔ Who is someone you really admire and why?

➔ What is a problem you are currently working to address?

➔ What is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

Instructions:

1. One partner will choose a question from the provided examples (or come up with their own) and then ask it to their partner. The partner will speak for two to three minutes on how he/she/they feels about the topic. As he/she/they talks, the other person cannot speak – his/her/their goal is to listen.

2. After two minutes, the listener has one minute to recap on what his/her/their partner has said. He/she/they cannot debate, agree, or disagree – only summarize.

3. Next, the roles switch, and the process starts again.

Answer the following questions by writing or recording a video:

➔ Who did you choose as a partner? Why?

➔ How did it feel to listen without responding?

➔ How did it feel to be listened to without being interrupted?

Option 3: Taking a stand!

Standing up for yourself is hard. Standing up for others can be even harder. Thinking through many of the racial injustices we have seen this year in many different communities.

➔ Write a paragraph stating what you can do as one human being to take a stand for another human being.

➔ How do you think this person would feel about having your support?

➔ Now that you have offered support to this person, write down one way you can also stand up for yourself because YOU MATTER!

Option 4: Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose your own way to practice one of the power skills you learned this week.

➔ Communicating effectively

➔ Developing positive relationships

➔ Demonstrating cultural competency

➔ Practicing teamwork and collaborative problem-solving

➔ Resolving conflicts constructively

➔ Resisting negative social pressure

➔ Showing leadership in groups

➔ Standing up for the rights of others

After completing this activity, write or record your answers to the following questions:

➔ Which power skill did you practice?

➔ How did you practice the skill?

➔ What did you learn?