AULAS FELICES (I)

Sharing happiness

Objectives: to provide other people with happiness, well-being and happiness

Development: 

To provided other people with happiness, well-being and satisfaction constitutes a component of love. In this activity we are going to put into practice how to give happiness to whom surround us. We will start reflecting individually upon which things produce me happiness in what people say to me and also in the way they treat me. Each student writes in a sheet his/her name, a pair of things he/she would like to be said and a phrase that sums up how he/she likes to be treated when somebody interacts with him. 

The next step consists in the teacher picking up the notes of each students and re-distribute them randomly, in a way each one gets a sheet written by another person. It is important that noone knows who has received what him/herself has written. We will tell the pupils to find at least one occasion to interact with the person whose sheet has been give to him/her and they have to say something in keeping with what is written in the paper. This way, they should provide their classmate with happiness and satisfaction. A period of a week will be given for this purpose. 

When the week is over, we have to revise the compliance of this activity by means of a pooling session where we will set the next questions out: 

- Have you all received the "present of the happiness" during this week?

- How have you noticed? (briefly describe the circumstances and how it happened). 

How have you felt when receiving it? And when giving it? 

Time: at least 40 minutes to reflect, write and redistribute the notes. A half an hour in order to revised what has been done once a week has passed. 

Observations: a complementary exercise would consist in apply this strategy outside of the scholar scope, thinking of a relative or friend, identifying what produces him/her joy and doing a concreto action to satisfy him/her. This activity should also be revised in the classroom.

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