Project Arrive

Group Mentoring

Category: Life Skills

Non-Verbals

This activity is designed to familiarize students with their own body language and the messages that it sends.  Each student is asked to draw a slip of paper with an emotion written on it.  They then have to try to communicate that emotion without speaking.

Nonverbal Communication

 

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Job Interview

This activity is designed to help students focus on their career ambitions.  Students are asked to think about what career paths they may wish to take in life.  Once decided, they are asked to think about what they would wear to an interview for a position in that field and what questions may be asked in such an interview.  Then, the students do a role-playing activity where one student acts as the interviewer asking those questions.

Job Interview

 

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Reflection

This activity promotes respectful and effective listening.  Volunteers are asked to tell a story of something that happened to them.  The other members of the group are then asked to respond to the story using the following format:  “That must have been {emotion} for you to have {summary of the talker’s story}.”

Reflection

 

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Pass the Compliment

This activity is designed to promote a sense of belonging in the group.  The students are asked to go around the room and give each other compliments paying particular attention to how it feels to give and be given a compliment.

Pass the Compliment

 

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Are you Listening?

This activity provides students an opportunity to practice their listening skills. The mentor acts out good and bad listening skills with a volunteer student before everyone splits up to practice in pairs. Students are encouraged to pay special attention to how it feels when the person they are talking to is not listening.

6 Are You Listening

 

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