Duration
50min/skill

Dimension of the advised group of students
10-30

Specific objectives
• Gain ways to work in teams and understanding the strength/qualities of a team. • Understand what makes a relationship healthy. • Recognise the qualities of good relationship • Understand that to sustain and maintain a good relationship

Link Source
https://aif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Lifeskills-2018a_MAST.pdf

Needed Materials
Computer &internet connection

Software
To interact online with students use: - online communication platform, such us: zoom, google meets, etc - tools to deliver the training and working in groups: mentimenter, jamboard, slido, kahoot, etc.

Description
The Handbook of Activities for Life Skills has been developed to address the students’ need of holistic behaviour development. It contains an Introductory Section and fifty participatory activities to enhance the ten core life skills. The handbook contains the following sections – Introductory Section, Self-Awareness and Empathy, Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving, Effective Communication and Interpersonal Relationships, Coping with Emotions and Stress. Each life skill has been dealt elaborately within five participatory activities; these are created to enable the students to internalise each life skill. The booklet aims to empower learners to take positive action for self-growth and therefore promotes healthy, positive professional and social relationships. These activities aim to empower the students to understand, internalize and apply life skills in their day to day life.

Procedure on how to put in practice
Duration: 50 min
No of Participants: 10-50
Methods used: discussion, presentation
Communication in mother tongue.

Step-by-step description:
1. The trainer introduces virtues such as love, care, compassion, empathy, which are the key elements for promoting and strengthening interpersonal relationships, adding peace and happiness in our lives. The trainer elicit from the participants the qualities of good relationships. The trainer tells participants that the activity will help them understand that to sustain and maintain a good relationship takes time, commitment and sharing and informs them that as a group, they are going to come up with a list of ingredients for a good friendship.
2. The trainer divides the class into groups and inform them that each group will be given a worksheet ‘Relationship Recipe’. As a group, they have to list at least ten ingredients that go into making a good friend eg. 1 teaspoon of kindness; 250 grams of sharing etc. For each ingredient, they have to write an example of how they can demonstrate that ingredient. Each group will present their ‘Relationship Recipe’ as a poster in plenary.
3. The participants work on the task.
4. Each team will have afterwards 5 minutes to present their poster.
5. The trainer organises a gallery so others can look at, read, and think about them.
6. Class discussion on the best ingredients of a good relationship. Class vote to the best ingredients of a good relationship.

Debriefing question: what advice would you give teens to sustain and maintain their relationships?