College Seminar

April 29, 2014*Healthy Choices Part VII

Bell Ringer 5 Minutes

OHow can identifying and communicating my emotions enhance my well-being?

AIM

• I will be able to analyze how thoughts and emotions affect decision making and responsible behavior, and evaluate how expressing one’s emotions in different situations affects others.

CHAMPS O C=conversation, you may speak during class

share out and when directed to speak with your peers *REMINDER WE PRACTICE RESPECT!

O H=help, please raise your handO A=activity, you are sharing out and responding

you peers, and working on understanding positive and negative influences in our lives.

O M=movement we are not, all supplies will be given to you

O P=participation, you are listening and responding to your peers, NO heads down, cell phones and/or eating

Positive and Negative 10 Minutes

OFace and your feelings

OBased on the scenarios what face best represents the narrative just read.

O I was all dressed up and waiting for my boyfriend to take me out. He never showed up so I went to his house to find him asleep on the couch

O After being told my whole life I wasn’t athletic, I made 15 out of the 30 points in the last quarter of our basketball game. We won with a final score of 65-57

O After I watched my dog get run over by a car, I sat on the side of the road holding him and crying.  Just before he died, he licked the tears off my face

Emotions Revealed 5 minutes

O Watch videoO http://

science.kqed.org/quest/video/emotions-revealed/

Discussion Questions 5 Minutes

O What was the purpose of the study that Paul Ekman conducted with the South Fore people of New Guinea?

O What were Ekman’s findings; which facial expressions were recognized by the South Fore people?

O Which of the 7 universal feelings (joy, anger, fear, sadness, surprise, disgust, and contempt) are the most comfortable feelings for you to express?

O Which of these feelings are less comfortable for you to express, which might lead you to hide your feelings?

O How might trying to hide emotions impact a person’s well-being?

Kimochi’s Detective 15 minutes

O Each of you has one part of a set of Kimochi™ Cards, which you may remember from our first session of the unit. Your task is to walk around the room expressing the feeling on your Kimochi™ Card on your face,looking for the classmate whi os expressing the same emotion.

O When you find your match, your task is to engage each other in conversation about how you’re feeling, opening up the space to be ‘real’.

O If you’re not actually feeling the feeling on the card, don’t pretend you are! Have a real conversation about what you’re feeling in the moment.

O Use the sentence starters on the board to help you and make sure you both have an opportunity to share.

Exit Ticket 5 minutes

O When you were looking for your partners, what were some

expressions that got confused with each other?O What information does that confusion give us about our ability to

interpret more complex feelings beyond the 7 universal emotions?

O Have you ever had an expression on your face that was misinterpreted?

O Have you ever been unclear about how you felt inside, but were asked by someone if you were feeling a particular way?

O When you found your partner and he/she asked you how you were feeling, was it comfortable for you to tell them what you were actually experiencing? How many of you were honest about your emotions?

O As your partner asked you more questions, was that a good experience for you, or did you feel uncomfortably vulnerable?