The Dealing Diagram
Resources you will need:
Click on the Activity Sheet below to open and print
Masking tape
Clear floor space
Aim
To give young people the chance to analyse their day-to-day activities and include new, simple activities that may have a positive impact on their wellbeing
Overview
This is a large group activity that will facilitate discussion around the impact doing or not doing certain activities has on our wellbeing.
Instructions
Print out the Activity Sheet opposite and cut out the activities individually (or create your own).
Use masking tape to mark out a large cross on the floor and place each label at the relevant points on the diagram (see below).
Give the young people 2 or 3 pictures each, selected at random.
Ask the young people to then place their images on the chart in the space that is most appropriate for them (e.g. if someone thinks that being in nature has a high impact on their wellbeing but isn’t something they do often, they would place their image in the top right-hand section of the diagram).
Facilitate a group discussion on why different people have placed their activities where they have. Encourage people to take their time.
Spend some time talking about where people have placed their activities with the whole group. Highlight the different opinions people have on different activities, and how something beneficial for one person might be useless for another.
Now ask the young people to write on separate pieces of paper the positive activities they do in their lives and repeat the above process with their own ideas.
Taking it home
Ask the young people to take a photo on their phones of the post-its with new activities the would like to try out in the future that others have suggested. Encourage them to agree to try out a new activity before the next session.
