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.