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Simulation Exercise

Needs-feelings-actions

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A simple tool based on the principles of non-violent communication and basics of emotional intelligence

Aims of the tool

To match needs, feelings in actions in a balanced way

Description of the tool

1. Provide to each participant a paper in a simple shape of a human body.
2. Provide a set of small pictures, that can be symbolically associated to various needs (e.g. sleeping, eating, communication etc.).
3. Ask participants to pick a paper, identify a need, stick this picture in the paper body, in some particular part, add their feeling associated to this need and say an action that has to be done to satisfy the need and change the feeling.

Close the activity with the reflection questions:
1. How easy/difficult was it for You to project Your body on a paper?
2. How comfortable were You to find out and express Your needs?
3. Analyse how basic or advanced are Your needs.
4. What could be Your next 3 steps to satisfy these needs?
5. How often do You think of and express Your needs? How do You do it? To whom? If You do not, why?
6. What would You change in Your everyday attitude/behaviour after the experience of this workshop?

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Tool overview

http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/3686

This tool is for

Small kids

and addresses

Personal Development, Conflict Management

Materials needed:

simple paper models of human body, one for each participant; a set of small symbolic pictures associated to various human needs (e.g. sleeping, eating, communication etc.).

Duration:

ca 30 min

Behind the tool

The tool was created by

"EmoTrain" participants

in the context of

TC "EmoTrain", Bulgaria 2023

The tool has been experimented in

EmoTrain follow-up activities in Latvia and Bulgaria

The tool was published to the Toolbox by

Kristina Castronovo (on 22 January 2024)

and last modified

31 May 2023

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