2. Pebble Game
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Fill a container with stones, then pebbles, then sand, then water, to symbolize priorities
Activity details
Duration: 45 minutes
Participants: 2 - 24 people
Cost: $ 0
Age range: 7-25 years old
Equipments
- 1 container (not too big) for the group
- 10 large stones (or cubes, or other) for the group
- 30 small pebbles (or beads, or other) for the group
- 1 kg of sand (or flour, or other) for the group
- 1L of water (or other liquid) for the group
Goal:
Understand the importance of prioritizing your choices
What we like:
- Little preparation
- Requires a translator
Steps
Hide the material and prepare it so that each component can be taken without revealing the others
- Place an empty container in front of the assembled young people.
- Fill it with stones to the brim. Ask: "Is it full?" Young people are likely to answer "yes".
- Take the pebbles and slide them into the free interstices between the stones. Ask "Is it full?" Young people are likely to answer "no".
- Indeed, take the sand and repeat the action. Ask the same question again.
- Finish filling to the brim with water
CONCRETELY :
What happens if you start by filling the container first with the water, or with the small pebbles?
FOR FURTHER :
In your life, what are the big stones and the small pebbles?
Big stones or small pebbles? : health ? family ? work, studies? silver ? debts? friends ? hobbies ? smartphones? social networks? sports?clothing? ...
1- My choices transform me, they move my life forward.
Sometimes it is difficult to choose, because I am afraid, because it requires me to sacrifice (give up). However, my choices make me live and, because I am responsible for them, I put in place the person I want to become. Through my choices, I can gradually achieve the purpose of my life.
2- Here is a method to help make a choice when you hesitate:
- Express the goal to be achieved: My goal is to...
- Express choice: I have to choose between xxxxxx and xxxxxxxx
- Seek advice (a relative, a sage, an expert)
- Write down the pros and cons of each choice
- Compare options, alone
- Deliberate
- Picking out
- Express why I choose this or that option, and not another
3- Ask young people for concrete cases where they had to make difficult choices. Also offer them real and real-life examples of well-known or lesser-known personalities in their country.
#choose
Each situation is different and gives rise to decisions of greater or lesser importance. A small choice (choosing the color of his shirt) does not commit me as much as a big choice (choosing the woman of my life), but small choices prepare me, help me learn how to organize myself and prioritize.
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