Piece of paper and get ready to draw:

Left side: the people and situations you can get yourself in that will allow you to push through difficulty. Be as specific as possible.

Right side:the people and situations that get you in trouble. In other words, what kinds of feelings, mindsets, and places help you fall away from a difficult situation.

Discussion questions:
where does our class fit on this sheet?
where does our school fit on this sheet?
where does your workspace at home fit on this sheet?

Examples:

Reflection:
We pretty quickly got to the question of whether or not it’s about individuals or about the group. Can another person really distract you or is it about what you let other people do?

DD made an incredible point “It’s more important to motivate yourself but it’s stronger when other people do it.”

KM also said “choices I make affect the stuff I want to do.”

AH claimed “how is yourself your biggest obstacle?”

KM noted as did many others, “sometimes it’s a ‘me vs me’ thing, sometimes it’s a ‘me vs. a situation’ situation”

Example from Clapper world:

We travelled to the multipurpose room/gym/cafeteria. A student sat on a stool and shared a thought they’ve had during a time when they didn’t want to do something.

Surrounding them were four students each holding a card:
Negative Ned or Nelly
Positive Polly or Peter
Social media Sal or Sally
Long-term Len or Lisa

After the student shared the thought, the other thoughts were allowed to argue among themselves. As usual several of our actors ruled this activity, leading to social media Sal declaring “Smash that like button! Forget about everything!”

We debriefed and talked about all humans have multiple voices, multiple impulses and some strategies to acknowledge all them. Someone once said to me that it’s like having fifty televisions going at once; your job is to focus on one and not try and continually turn them all off.