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Start the session with a little game to relax the atmosphere and create a healthy, confident atmosphere. See the Ice Breaker Manual. Why not  the Game of the Bottle, which involves the notion of trust

• Clarify that this is an inner game that requires trust and prohibits laughter or judgment. Encourage participants to express themselves freely.
• Place all cards face up in the center of the circle. Each participant should draw a card from the center and return to their original position. Participants have the right to take their time reading the cards and selecting their preferred option.
• Next, each participant selects a smiley face from the facilitator's hand that corresponds to their emotional response to the card.
• This exercise will aid them in expressing themselves more effectively later.        
• A volunteer begins by explaining the situation described on the card they have drawn and linking it to an example from their life.

Sharing certain emotions can be challenging.

• Consider the topic 'Can we express everything, and to whom can we express the most difficult things, in what context?' and reflect on why no one wanted to take the card.
• Additionally, it is worth considering if there are any emotions that should not be expressed

1.Emotions, also known as passions, are expressed by our senses and bodies when we interact with our environment.

• For example, when I see a rotten apple, I feel disgust, and when I see a bright red strawberry, I feel pleasure.        
• In my interactions with others, my thoughts and body become agitated due to my passions driving me. Some emotions are hard to share.

2.There are 11 passions that are the origin of all the others:

1. pleasure/pain,
2. Desire/flight,
3. fear/audacity,
4. love/hate,
5. hope/despair,
6. Anger.

3. "Passions" are neither morally good nor bad in themselves. They are natural processes necessary for life. They only become morally good or bad according to the purpose they serve.

4. The important thing is not to let our passions overwhelm us (if I live only for pleasure, my life is unbalanced). But it is important to know them and to be able to order them for one's own good and for the good of others. They are then a means to moral good and evil, to happiness. They contribute to our happiness (if everything disgusts me, if nothing satisfies me, I won't be happy).

5. To know myself better and to manage my life better, it's important to know my habitual passionate reactions. They are like little antennae that tell me what's going on inside me in my relationship with good and evil.

6. They are the expression in my inner sensitivity of my relationship to good and evil. That's why they relate to my intimacy. Sharing emotions therefore requires a friendly context of kindness and trust, or at least discernment, because by revealing my emotions I'm revealing something of my intimacy.

In Asia, a smile may not always convey the same meaning as it does in Europe. If your interlocutor smiles without responding, it may indicate a lack of understanding rather than agreement. To avoid confusion, it is best to rephrase the question.