IDEAS
For Classes
"Share the Love" bracelets/keychains
made with positive affrimations (with letter beads) that you wear on your wrist to attach to your backpack, purse, or jacket zipper to remeber that you are loved but then pass it on to someone else who needs to feel loved as well.
"Share the Love" pencils
students write a positive affrimation on a pencil with a Sharpie or a permanent marker to keep in their pencil case to give to anyone who asks to borrow a pencil.
"Share the Love" bookmarks
made with positive affirmations stickers and/or written positive affirmations and can be given to each other during reading time at school or put in a libary for anyone to grab
"Share the Love" beach ball game
a variation to the classroom Mum-ball game. It has all the same rules as Mum-ball, except that you use a beach ball with positive affrimations on each colored section of the beach ball. Then the person who catches the ball, reads one of the positive affirmations to a classmate before they pass the ball. If they say anything else, they're out.
Advanced rules for the Beach Ball game for older students once they get to know each other:
Instead of just reading off a positive affirmation to someone, they can pick one of the following categories to be more personal:
Compliment something (they):
Are wearing
Are good at/talent they have
Nice thing they did
Put effort into/are working hard on
Creative they did
Helped someone with
Do that stands out/that makes them a better person
A good quality they have
An idea they had
Anything else
For employees
Tell employees verbally through an email, or handwritten note/certificate that they're doing a good job, they are valued, and that they're appreciated for trying and putting "their all" into their work.
Celebrate employees who gone above and beyond.
Have celebratory gifts or a celebration for all employees with inexpensive gifts, knickknacks, and/or treats that have words of positive affirmations given to each employee.
For Anyone
Wear a t-shirt with uplifting words.
Write emails and/or notes with positive affirmations to others and place them in lunchboxes, on lockers, on coworkers' desks, on a loved ones' favorite spot, etc.
Respond to negative comments in a positive way.
a. saying something nice about the other person, rather than reacting back to them in a negative way. This can be quite difficult, but if you try it, it can get a surprised reaction, perhaps a sigh of relief and ease the tension. It helps to feel loved and accepted and to give love and acceptance.
If you find yourself making or saying negative comments, take a deep breath and apologize.
a. Don’t get down on yourself. Everyone experiences stress. But we can turn that around by starting again. Just apologize. Explain that you had a stressful day or it caught you off guard and it came out wrong. Then say it in a nicer way, the best you can.
If you have to communicate something concerning or serious/negative, starting with a positive and ending with a positive is the best way to handle the situation. This way the other person doesn't feel attacked at the beginning or upset at the end.