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Module Three

EXERCISE 5 EXERCISE 6 EXERCISE 7

Exercise 5: Happiness, wellbeing
 & setting goals

The Goal

This module works in the area of awareness, setting objectives and having an impact on the social dimension and behaviour change.
You are invited to reflect on the importance of the individual contribution to the social good. In setting your goals you will be enabled to take into consideration the ICare values (Integration, Commitment, Attention, Responsibility and Empathy) focusing on having a positive impact either on yourself and on the wider world.

These are the values that make the difference and are important to be raised and strengthen for you, so as to reinforce self-awareness but also to respect the external from yourself, context and relations. The ICare process will affect your behaviour as each of us will feel important and ready to qualitatively contribute to his/her own new positioning in relations to others and to the local context.
The overreaching aim for you is to be inspired to make a change in your life and thus to set objectives that are challenges for yourself; to take actions to achieve a goal that you think to be relevant for your life and personal satisfaction.

It is important to make you reflect on the fact that we are happier when we feel that we are doing something that will generate a benefit not only for ourselves but also for the world/people around us.

You can connect this exercise with the Hero's journey as to improve your goal setting and finetune the identification of levels/steps of your transformation process and overcome obstacles in your journey

You will:

  • Explore what happiness means to you
  • Learn about factors that research suggests contributing to a happier life
  • Reflect on your coping mechanisms
  • Explore your life priorities and time use
  • Reflect on everyday choices that can impact happiness
  • Explore effective strategies to impact your own happiness
  • Reflect on success and failure factors
  • Identify your strengths and success capacity to overcome obstacles
  • Explore what you want your future to look like and set long-term goals
  • Explore how you rate different areas of your life now
  • Set a 21 to 30-day challenge that helps you move towards your long-term goals
  • Explore effective strategies to choose the right goals for you
  • Explore effective strategies to achieve your goals

The learning

You should have 5 flip-chart papers with written the 5 ways to wellbeing (1 per paper): CONNECT, GIVE, KEEP LEARNING, OBSERVE, BE ACTIVE.

Then the method to be applied will be the WOOP: WOOP is a goal-setting model that research has shown to be extremely effective in helping people achieve their goals. It has been tested in gyms, health facilities and schools and has proven to be effective in helping people to have greater self-control and significantly increase their chances of achieving their goals.

Instructions to fill in the 5 ways and the life map

You can stick the 5 flip-chart papers (one per each way to wellbeing) on the wall, use post-its and pens and write all the actions you think in relation to that ACTIVITY. You can write the actions on the post-its and stick them on the poster. Every 5 minutes you can move to the following poster until every paper is filled.

When the itinerary is completed, you should have a look at all of them and cluster actions highlighted on post-its giving priorities to your choices. Then you are invited and facilitated to think and identify a short term objective (being it personal or professional).

The tool we invite you to use is the WOOP, a successful table useful to help increasing effort and engagement:


1. Reducing stress
2. Improving time management
3. Promoting physical health


This method helps people increase their grit and self-control. WOOP stands for:
1. Wish (the goal we want to achieve)
2. Outcome (what we really want from achieving this – how it will make us feel)
3. Obstacle (what are our internal obstacles that get in the way)
4. Plan (planning for what we can do when these obstacles get in the way)
5. I will do this and have a positive impact on the planet by...

You will work on your Life Map and will fill it following the WOOP methodology for achieving a short/mid-term goal. The goal is identified as a short-term challenge on which you have to focus in one week time to see your improvements.

Share your objectives with peers as to feel more responsible on achieving it. If you are successful with your first short term objective, you can proceed by going deeper identifying a mid/long term objective on which you will need to work in the following weeks (at least 21-30 day challenge)

Filling the WOOP, following the five ways to wellbeing, sharing your aims, finding the way to facilitate your life to achieve your goals and overcome obstacles, will make you happier and help you achieve your goals for a happier life.

Resources

https://www.onyourmindglos.nhs.uk/five-ways/
http://woopmylife.org/woop-1
https://www.njlifehacks.com/woop-goal-setting-method/
Life Map for Goal Setting (WOOP) (download)

Exercise 6: Hero's journey 
 

The Goals

  • Understanding what the unconformity is, the call for adventure, the refusal of the call and how to overcome the obstacles.
  • The Hero’s Journey is a personal Journey for transformation based on a template that helps you map the journey for transformation. It is directly connected to the LEGO® exercises and the Business Model You®. In fact, it could be played simultaneously if needed. The journey for transformation starts with your unconformity and situation.
  • Once identified the unconformity, you need to analyse the call for adventure followed by the refuse of the call and what implies and stimulate you to leave the comfort zone. You can then identify the obstacles and, inspired and/or helped by your Mentor (a person, a figure, a star, a film, your hero, etc…), you can plan the steps of your journey to overcome them: you can “play” as game-defining levels based on the game mechanics and gameplay.
  • The whole training module offers the possibility to make a journey into transformation visualising the journey in itself from different angles with different tools.
  • This tool will help you understand who you are, what is your value proposition, how to deal with the obstacles to breaking down personal fears.

The learning experience

Understanding what the unconformity is, the call for adventure, the refusal of the call and how to overcome the obstacles. Template.
How to find a Mentor to cross the threshold: Mentors play a key role to guide the Journey. The kind of call for adventure for leaving the comfort zone will define the Mentor profile.

Gamify the obstacles when leaving the comfort zone
Focus on the challenge to identify the game play and game resources
Define the new level you intend to achieve in order to develop the new personal storytelling: in this part of the Journey you face the challenges and take the new risks understanding the new skills and resources needed.

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Instructions

You need to understand how to gamify the journey for transformation, by filling in all the steps of the Hero’s Journey template with the use of post-its. In parallel, also the LEGO® exercises and the Business Model You® can be used in order to better focus on how the personal and professional change that is going to happen will carry you to a new business model and which are the characteristics of this mew model (please refer to IO1- Module 1 and IO2 - Module 3)

It is a journey for change and you have to think about your personal change and how to implement it.

Once the template is filled, it would be important to explain the process and the journey to other people, your peers, as to collect insights and feedbacks and be asked questions that can help you optimize and finetune your transformation journey, also finding out new aspects you had not thought about, and finding new answers to your questions.

Resources

Joseph Campbell - "The Hero with a Thousand Faces"
https://www.talentsquare.com/blog/the-heros-journey-road-to-self-improvement/
https://whimsybutwise.com/the-heros-journey/
Poster of the Hero's Journey (download)


Exercise 7: Discover your strengths 

The Goal

  • In order to know better yourself from different angles and be able to organize information about yourself is necessary to find out and understand your superpowers.
  • As for all the other steps of your personal journey, the theoretical framing is based on practical results of multiple LEGO® workshops and Design Thinking. It is based on the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology and it is focused on yourself perception.
  • The discovery of your strengths starts from a deep personal analysis and goes on through the comparison with your friends and colleagues.
  • Once you have discovered your superpowers and your values it will be easier to work on them and use them to improve your work and your style life. It won’t be easy to define what’s strong and powerful and what’s weak, that’s why there are no rules, no schedules to identify strengths and weaknesses, because each of us a different perception; anyway, thanks your personal journey, you will understand which are your strengths and how to make the most of them in order to reach your goals.
  • The whole training module offers the chance to make a journey into transformation, in particular this exercise will give you some tools to manage your fears and to have awareness how to overcome the obstacle.

The learning experience

An empathy map will be created in order to reflect on what a person sees, feels, gains and need; “What are my strengths?, “What are my values?, “How do I work?” are the steps that will bring you to personal achievement and understanding personal feelings. Boosting emotional intelligence to overcome the fears and difficulties and developing entrepreneurial skills based on inner strength and values.

In this part of the module you will observe yourself in order to understand which personal strong features will help you in overcoming obstacles and going out your comfort zone.

Instructions

You need to identify your strengths and success factors; in order to achieve your goal you may start from thinking about a difficult situation (in a work context or in a personal one) in which you were particularly stressed, but that you have solved with an happy end.

While you’re thinking, write down all of your own strengths, the most you find the easier you will understand how to make the most of them, both during work experience and personal life.
Once finished to have written all your positive features, strengths and success factors, identify which of them seem to come more naturally to you.

At this point it would be important to compare your personal result with other people. In particular make clear why you feel more confident with the strengths you choose as more naturally to you and how they would be an advantage for you in realising your personal project. Reflecting on the feedbacks they’ll give you, you could find out more aspects and more strengths you have and you improve in your everyday life.

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