August 23-27, 2021
Theme: Collaborating
Skill Building: Appreciating Strengths
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety
Monday August 23, 2021
Today happens to be...Sponge Cake Day
Recap August Theme--Collaboration
This Week's Theme: Appreciating Strengths
We've learned about our strengths and considered how we can contribute them to our communities and groups. This week we'll learn how to spot and appreciate the strengths of others, the strengths of our collaborations and the strength that comes from depending on one another.
Thematic Media
Thematic Information
How to Collaborate effectively at a NEW JOB
Body Break--Choose 2-3 exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Watch this funny video about compliments at work. There is a good way to give compliments, not the way this video shows. Even though it's funny.
Do you think that manager will get better at giving compliments? Below are some tips on how to give good compliments to coworkers.
Skills Information
Compliments to give co-workers
Scroll down to the categories of compliments that are grouped in short lists to see great examples of compliments.
Skills Applied
Choose 2-3 categories of the compliments in the link above. For each compliment in the list, point out what about the statement is
- specific to the person, is ABOUT something, not just a general statement
- short and easy to understand
- showing you notice the other person's strength
Body Break--Choose 2-3 different exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Fun Stuff
PRESENTERS: describe and explain the visuals and try to make sure your group understands what is funny. Comics are great for supporting story-telling skills and reasoning ability. Help your group notice the details in the images that explain the story.
Sequence the day-What did we learn?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Civics & Community Awareness
Tuesday August 24, 2021
Today happens to be...Vesuvius Day
Thematic Media
California wants communities that have less money available to be able to make changes that help the environment. Look at this website and read their vision.
Thematic Activity
If someone wanted to learn more about this opportunity they could attend a meeting and learn about what projects are being chosen to get money.
Look at the meeting page and explore the links to previous meetings. When is the next meeting? Why would someone who may want to apply for money for their community want to attend this meeting?
Body Break--Choose 2-3 exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Skills Media
Native Americans have had a long and difficult history as a community in the United States. It has required amazing strength to not be eliminated entirely. In this video, we hear about the pride members of that community feel about that strength.
Skills Information
Map of United States showing Native American lands lost over time.
PRESENTERS: click the little clock icon on the bottom consol to make the animation play and show the change in lands of Native Americans.
When Columbus came to the New World there were an estimated 60 million people living here. Within 100 years their numbers were reduced to 800,000. For comparison, San Jose currently has 1,025,791 resident.
Loss and trauma requires all our strength. When loss and trauma happen to a whole community, strength is how they survive.
Skills Applied
Use the list of losses below to figure out what kind of strength it takes to get through it.
- death of a loved one
- long term injury to the body
- losing your house
- break up of an important relationship
If you saw someone coping with a serious loss what can you offer them? How can you encourage their strength in that situation?
Body Break--Choose 2-3 different exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Fun Stuff
If Crossfitters took a yoga class
This could be taking strength training too far...
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Well Being and Social Connection
Wednesday August 25, 2021
Today happens to be...Banana Split Day
Thematic Media
Wellness, community and collaboration
A woman talks about the wellness challenges she wanted to solve for herself and do it in the community she felt close to.
Thematic Activity
Review the kinds of wellness in the list below.
- Physical, body
- Mental
- Emotional
- Social
- Learning
- Financial
If you were going to create a wellness community what kind of wellness would be the most important to you?
Body Break--Choose 2-3 exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Skills Media
Skills Information
Skills Applied
Think about your food supply.
- Do you ever grow your own food?
- Do you know if your produce is locally grown or imported?
- If you had a garden that gave you lots of fresh fruits and vegetables what part of your life would benefit?
- Health
- Happiness
- Money/Finances
- Activity options
- Independence
- Prepared for emergencies or shortages
- Helping others
- Contributing to community
- Beautfy of your surroundings
Body Break--Choose 2-3 different exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Fun Stuff
Sometimes the strongest thing we can do is laugh at something that makes us worry. This is a funny sketch about a very serious subject, fire safety.
Air Quality and Wellness
Here are some tips for coping with the air quality issues created by the fires currently going.
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Rights & Self Advocacy
Thursday August 26, 2021
Today happens to be...Women's Equality Day
Thematic Media
Lending your strength to others is part of collaborating to make a better society. This couple is using their marriage and YouTube channel to help other inter-ability couples choose to be together.
Do you think inter-ability couples might like to have this kind of supportive example to face their own challenges?
Thematic Activity
Strengths can be shared so that others can lean on them. Here is a quote from Mind Journal: “Kindness is loaning someone your strength instead of reminding them of their weakness.” What does that quote mean?
Who has lent you strength? Who have you used as an example for your own strength?
Body Break--Choose 2-3 exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Skills Media
Song: I'll Stand By You - Pretenders
Skills Information
Scroll through these quotes about strength. Do you like any of them? Do any of them seem to be about you, your life, or your friends?
Skills Applied
This video is about adult bullies at work places. The video says to be able to say "no" from the beginning, to not be a "people pleaser," to write down the bullying and to get other people to confirm your experience.
What would be hard, or require courage, about standing up for yourself in an adult work setting? What are some reasons people don't sometimes?
Where, in a work setting, can someone go to get support for bullying, which can also be included under the word "harrassment?" Clue: It's a department in larger companies.
Body Break--Choose 2-3 different exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Fun Stuff
Sometimes the courage you need is to quit a job that isn't working out. Here are some people who quit their jobs in very unusual ways.
You know the right way to quit a job, but other people's poor judgement makes for funny youtube video.
What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
Knowledge & Fun
Friday August 27, 2021
Today happens to be...Bunch of different stuff
Hope Program Updates
Anyone with information, announcements, sharing what is going on in the in-person program.
Here is a link to Chip's explanation of the pause in reopening.
PRESENTERS: you can explain who Chip is and then make clients aware of the pause in re-opening and why.
Review the Week
Theme was collaboration - coming together to help one another, solve problems and respond to needs and challenges.
Skill was Appreciating Strengths - different kinds of strengths, different needs for strength and allowing others to lend us their strengths when we need them.
Movie Time
PRESENTERS: Choose, mix n match
the short films add up to about the same amount of time as the longer one...
RIFT (6+ min) Intro is in French but the film is still great.
Body Break--Choose 2-3 exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Music
Choose Disney songs from this playlist and boogie down for Friday fun
Learn about Australian Instrument that TERMITES help make!
Dance
Aboriginal Dance Festival Australia
Dancing like nobody's watching
Body Break--Choose 2-3 different exercises
PRESENTERS: Use the PLAY button to see the whole video, OR scroll down the page to show the ANIMATED GIFS of the different exercises and choose the ones to do with your group. MODIFY EXERCISES FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT
Food
Language
Introduce yourself in Tagalog (Filipino)
Choosing Fun Stuff to Do
Need some help deciding on an afternoon activity?
The activities are numbered. These numbers corrospond to brief activity descriptions listen in the linked document below.
