Key Messages
- It is crucial to develop positive skills which will enhance and build social relationships.
- It is important to assert your own personal values around issues which impact on relationships.
Learning Intention
Students will: Investigate the changing nature of peer and family relationships and proposing strategies to manage these changes
Time
40 minutes.
Required Resources
- A copy of a scenario for each group.
Teaching Notes
This activity aims to present real-life situations to the students to allow them to develop problem solving skills and to consider preventative strategies and possible ways of reacting in such situations. It is best presented after some work has been completed on healthy friendships and relationships.
Sexual Health Victoria advocates that all healthy relationships should
contain (in equal parts) the following characteristics.
- Consent
- Respect
- Mutuality
- Communication
Lack of, or imbalance of any of these could mean that the
relationship is unhealthy. This applies to friendships as well as
intimate relationships.
Procedure
Procedure
- Divide the students into eight groups and distribute a scenario to each group.
- Ask the students to read their scenario and to discuss the questions.
- Invite each group to report back to the class.
Extension
Make or storyboard a short film based on a scenario. Ensure that the characteristics of Consent, respect, mutuality and communication feature in the story telling.
Questioning
- Did you think the scenarios were realistic? Why or why not?
- How were the characteristic of consent, respect, mutuality, communication considered in discussions?
- What other options might each of the characters have had?
- What would have happened next to the feelings, self-esteem and friendship groups of each of the characters?
- Where/ who can we go to for help around these issues?