This week we have continued unpacking Manaakitanga and how we can use this when working and playing with our friends. This is an important, and tricky, skill to learn.
On Tuesday we shared what a good listener looks like and one aspect that came up was sharing and adding onto others ideas. In a short group discussion we practiced looking at the speaker and building on the speakers. ideas. We call this 'piggy-packing'.
We followed this up with a discussion on the character strengths that we could dial up when spending time with our friends. This also includes our new friends. Kindness, Creativity, Honesty and a Love of Learning were stand outs. Many of the students shared that it was OK for friends to like different things and to have different mates and that it didn't mean they don't want to play with us or be our friends.
We finished the session creating friendships hands. These will include the Character Strengths that we can dial up in order to be the best friend but also when showing Manaakitanga.
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