GOING DEEPER
Happiness Is ?
5 minutes
Section Aim
For participants to reflect and come up with their own definition of happiness .
Instructions
Hand out some pieces of paper and ask the group to come up with their own definition of happiness . As a prompt you can leave the definitions from slides 9 – 10 on the screen if you are using the PowerPoint or read them out again . Ask them to fold the pieces of paper in half , write their names on them and gather them all in . Pop them in an envelope and tell the group we will come back to these in our last session .
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So now it ’ s your turn . I would like you to come up with your own definition of happiness . If you like you can use one of the definitions from earlier , you can adapt them , add your own words or write one from scratch . Complete the sentence ‘ Happiness is ...’
Happy All The Time
5 minutes
Section Aim
To highlight that we can ’ t be happy all the time , that sadness is part of life and that when we are feeling low it is important and helpful to talk to someone .
Instructions
In this section we will use emojis * to talk about different emotions . Start this activity by displaying the emojis on slide 15 , or get your group to draw as many different emojis on a large piece of flip chart paper . Once you have displayed the emojis work through the questions , script and power-point below .
* Note : to search for the number of current emojis in use and the top ten in use online visit : emojipedia . org / faq
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