Part 2: Ready, set, SAFE!
Choose one activity from these options in order to set a brave and safe space for your youth consultation.
Action story
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Time |
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Suggested age groups |
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15 min |
None |
5-13 |
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We are going to take part in an action story about a girl who wants to change the world! In the story we will hear lots of different emotions, then we will think about our own emotions. |
How to play:
- As a group, help the the girls to decide on a simple funny action to perform to match each of these emotions from the story:
Love Cheerful Frustrated Excited Proud Brave - Every time an emotion is read out in the story, perform the action.
- Choose someone to read out the story and make sure they know to slow down as they read the emotion words to give the group time to do the action. If you think you will have time, the girls might choose to read the story a few times and read faster each time so that it becomes harder/funnier to do the actions!
- After reading the story, ask the girls if they have felt any of those 6 emotions in the past week and have a brief discussion about them.
STORY SCRIPT
Once upon a time there was a Girl Guide/Girl Scout. Her friends and family always told her how much they love her because she was always so cheerful and made them smile. Today she was extra excited because she was going to a special Girl Guide/Girl Scout event where there would be a guest, speaking to the girls about her important job.
When the time came for her to get ready to go to the event, she realised that, although she was excited she was also a bit nervous because there would be lots of girls at the event that she had never met before. Her parents reminded her that if she was her usual cheerful self, the new girls she met were sure to want to be her friends. So she put on her Girl Guide/Girl Scout uniform and decided to be brave!
The event was amazing and she quickly realised she had nothing to be nervous about. The leaders ran all kinds of activities which helped her to learn about the lives of girls living in other parts of the world and she was proud to know that she had Girl Guide and Girl Scout sisters in so many countries.
Soon, it was time for the guest speaker to do her talk. The guest was so brave standing up in front of all those people! In her talk, the guest explained that her job was to help girls and women who didn’t get to enjoy the same rights as men and boys in their community. She said that often her job made her frustrated because all people should have the same rights, but she knew that if she was cheerful and brave she could speak up for other people’s rights and make a difference.
After the event, the Girl Guide/Girl Scout felt all kinds of emotions. She was frustrated that there were girls who didn’t enjoy the same rights as she did, but she was also excited that she could speak up and help to make a difference. At their next Girl Guide/Girl Scout meeting, the girls who attended the event decided to be brave and give their own talk. They explained the issue to the rest of their group and reminded them that although they were probably frustrated about the issue too, as Girl Guides/Girl Scouts they had the power to speak up and change the world!
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Three scenes
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Time |
Materials |
Suggested age groups |
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15 min |
Pens and papers to record answers and discussion points |
13-18 |
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Today we are asking you to share your feelings, experiences and opinions. In order for everyone to contribute we have to ensure that everyone feels safe and valued in the process. |
How to play:
- Ask a small group of volunteers (3-5 people) to improvise a scene, without any planning. The setting of the scene is that they are together at a party. The story is up to them! Stop the scene when it comes to an end, or when it has been five minutes.
- Ask for another group of volunteers to reenact the same scene, but the characters are uncomfortable and scared.
- Ask for a third group of volunteers to play the same scene again, but this time the characters are feeling safe, confident and brave.
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