Activities specifically focused on personal growth, self-awareness, actualizing our potential, and making progress toward our goals.

Growth and Self-Awareness

Role-play simulations

A person describes a real-life situation they find difficult or uncomfortable — such as a job interview, giving a talk in front of an audience, or asking someone on a date. The group then acts it out together, so the person can practice and build comfort in a safe, supportive environment. Another option is to role play a desired result as well as the path to get there. The purpose is to fine-tune our understanding and behavior so as to facilitate our success. This activity can solidify the belief that what we want is possible, and strengthen positive feelings about the path, as well as provide further valuable insights. After the role-play, everyone reflects on how it went and what felt easier or harder. The person then carries that rehearsed confidence into the real situation.

The “Hot Seat”

One person sits in the center and openly shares a problem, difficulty, or complaint they are facing. The others are deliberately and honestly tough with them, “grilling” the person with uncompromising questions, calling out self-limiting patterns and excuses (or “bullshit” the person is telling him/herself) which is holding them back. They can also offer advice and guiding questions, as well as challenge the person to do certain actions beyond his or her comfort zone – actions that would be beneficial for advancing the person’s desires. All this is done with the person’s full consent, at a level suitable for that person, and the default tone remains caring. However, the person in the seat may explicitly request a more blunt and challenging style. The exercise often produces a mix of discomfort, insight, and laughter of embarrassment about one’s failings.

Visualization

We close our eyes and imagine a desired result, adding more and more vivid details to it, including imagining and describing what we see, hear, smell, and feel. In this way, we can reach greater clarity about a goal, how to get there, and how to overcome obstacles.

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