Spend 5-10 minutes in a quiet place and listen carefully to the sounds around you. How many different sounds can you hear? Try to count the different sounds you can identify around you.
Getting Started: How can you make sure you are listening carefully?
Intermediate: What does positive body language look like?
Advanced: Why is summarising or rephrasing what you have heard useful sometimes?
Mastery: How might changing the language (words) used affect how you feel about something?
With your friends or family, create a storybook. One person starts the story with an opening sentence, and each person adds a sentence or two to continue it.
Once the story is finished, you can illustrate the scenes as a team, with each person drawing different parts of the story.
Getting Started: When do you find it easier (or more difficult) to work with others in a positive way?
Intermediate: Have you helped make decisions with others?
Advanced: How can you encourage others to help out too?
Mastery: What is an 'unhelpful conflict'? How can you avoid this when working with others?
Plan a meal to enjoy with your friends or family. Write down some of your ideas for this meal and explain these ideas to your friends and family. Ask them for their feedback: what do they like and dislike about these ideas? Now, try to use their feedback to make an even better meal.
Getting Started: How can you find out about how others are feeling about something?
Intermediate: How can you find out more about strengths and weaknesses in others?
Advanced: How might you be able to motivate others to improve their weaknesses?
Mastery: What kind of leader would you like to be?
Write a letter to your future self about one or two goals you want to achieve in the next six months. Try to include what steps you will take to achieve these goals and how you think you will feel when you succeed.
Getting Started: How do you know if something is too difficult for you?
Intermediate: Why is it important to be willing to take on new challenges?
Advanced: What resources might you need to achieve your goals?
Mastery: What steps do you need to put in place to make your goals happen?
Set a small goal to help you stay positive throughout the week. For example, you might like to write down one thing you are grateful for each day or tell yourself one thing that you are looking forward to every morning.
You might like to write down your goal and put this reminder somewhere that you will see it each day to remind you.
Getting Started: How does this activity make you feel?
Intermediate: How could you use this activity to feel more positive when something goes wrong?
Advanced: How could this help you to look on the bright side of something?
Mastery: How can you manage your emotional response to best support others?
You have been asked to invent a new sport. Write down the rules of the sport, any equipment that you need to play and how many players you need.
Getting Started: How can you share what you imagine?
Intermediate: How can you come up with lots of different ideas?
Advanced: How can you combine different ideas to create new ones?
Mastery: How can you help someone else to be creative?
Imagine you are asked to design a community garden. There is a limited amount of space, and you need to decide what sort of plants you would like to grow. For example, what colour are the plants? Would you like to grow fruit and vegetables? Do you want to include any other features in your garden?
Draw a picture of your community garden.
Getting Started: What are the instructions?
Intermediate: How can you come up with lots of possible solutions?
Advanced: Why is it important to consider a range of solutions for problems?
Mastery: How might you choose between different solutions to a complex problem?
Think of your favourite story, perhaps a fairytale or a story you invented. Tell that story to a family member or friend and try to make the story exciting by using different tones of voice, facial expressions, and hand gestures.
Getting Started: How do we know if we are speaking clearly?
Intermediate: As you speak how can put your points into a logical order so you can be easily understood?
Advanced: How can you use tone, expression and gesture to make your speaking engaging?
Mastery: How can you adapt the content of what you are saying, in response to listeners?
