NEW! Hardwire Happiness I recently read Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson. It combines Positive Psychology/Happiness and Neuroscience. He suggests a model called HEAL:
Have a positive experience,
Enrich it (mentally revisit it and feel it deeply),
Absorb it (by reexperiencing it),
Link positive and negative material.
It inspired me to write this task sheet. It is essentially a savoring activity where the student follows Hanson's first 3 steps, describing an event several times with different partners. Each ask follow-up questions which let the speaker go deeper, emotionally and in terms of language.
CLICK HERE for the tasksheet.
The idea is that by retelling the same story/ talking about the save event, we reconnect the emotions (and neurons related to those emotions) making the links stronger. "Neurons that fire together, wire together."
For a related listening task, "Guided Journey", CLICK HERE. Use the activity between steps 1 and 2 of those on the tasksheet. The listening tasks gives them yet another chance to reexperience the positive emotions.
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Have a positive experience,
Enrich it (mentally revisit it and feel it deeply),
Absorb it (by reexperiencing it),
Link positive and negative material.
It inspired me to write this task sheet. It is essentially a savoring activity where the student follows Hanson's first 3 steps, describing an event several times with different partners. Each ask follow-up questions which let the speaker go deeper, emotionally and in terms of language.
CLICK HERE for the tasksheet.
The idea is that by retelling the same story/ talking about the save event, we reconnect the emotions (and neurons related to those emotions) making the links stronger. "Neurons that fire together, wire together."
For a related listening task, "Guided Journey", CLICK HERE. Use the activity between steps 1 and 2 of those on the tasksheet. The listening tasks gives them yet another chance to reexperience the positive emotions.
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