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Unit 8: What Are Your Plans?
Guiding Questions:
- What is System 1 and System 2 Thinking?
- What are my planning patterns?
- How do I create realistic goals?
- How will I use the IAR tools to create positive change in my life?
Unit Description:
Our decisions are impacted by internal and external events and our reaction to them. Research indicates that people use two types of decision-making systems. In System 1, decisions are made quickly and with little reflective thought. In System 2, reasoning processes are intentionally slowed down so that one can evaluate and analyze their situation in order to respond more carefully. Everyone uses both systems of thinking; however, when System 1 becomes a person’s predominant thinking system, poor decisions are made.
In Unit 8, learners explore System 1 and System 2 thinking processes. Learners reflect upon the IAR tools and explore how the IAR tools help them make better System 1 and System 2 decisions.
Learners use the Pyramid of Empowerment model to review the tools that they have learned over the course of the curriculum. Learners create SMART goals and play a team building game to reflect upon their personal experiences of growth and development.
Lesson Overviews
Lesson One
Overview
Learners explore System 1 and System 2 thinking and their relationship to self-awareness and self-control. Learners create SMART goals.
Critical Activities
- Take A Stand
- Accountability Partners
- Climb Our Mountain
- Rules for Living
- Transformation Circle
- Whip Around
Objectives
- Define Rules for Living
- Understand how Rules for Living are formed and applied
- Define Forces of Distortion
- Understand cognitive distortions
- Acknowledge challenges and successes
- Review and evaluate progress for personal records
- Set a TRY Goal
Learning Targets
- Rules for Living are automatic assumptions about how the world operates.
- A Daily RFL is a mental shortcut we use to make decisions in everyday routine experiences and events.
- A Protective RFL is a mental shortcut that helps us make decisions in a potentially threatening or unusual situation.
- An RFL that is distorted and applied to inappropriate situations is called Distortion.
- A distorted belief creates distorted thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Lesson Two
Learners explore self-control challenges and establish their WHY for course participation. This Happened! and Tracking My Day Tools reflective tools are introduce
Overview
Learners explore the Pyramid of Empowerment model and review IAR tools. Learners complete empowerment inventory.
Critical Activities
- Words I Wish I Wrote
- Tie it Together
- RFL Cycle Walk
- This Happened!
- Tracking My Day
- A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words
Objectives
- Understand how Rules for Living are developed
- Connect Rules for Living to internal events
- Identify thoughts, behaviors, and actions of others through roleplay
- Challenge cognitive distortions with Six Seconds to Ready
Learning Targets
- My RFLs influence my experiences. My experiences reinforce my RFLS.
- The RFL Cycle creates a powerful mental habit that impacts all aspects of my daily life.
- Distorted RFLs create distorted and irrational thoughts.
Lesson Three
Overview
Learners create a Today & Tomorrow concluding episode.
Critical Activities
- Tie it Together
- Tune in! Today & Tomorrow
- T&T Draw it!
- This Happened!
- Tracking My Day
- Back-to-Back
Objectives
- Identify thoughts, behaviors, and actions of others through story
- Identify I AM Ready tools for specific situations and scenarios
- Practice applying tools to characters in story
Learning Targets
- Targets and Statements are reviewed in the Transformation Circles and Accountability Partners.
Lesson Four
Overview
Learners play the maze, conclude Transformation Circles, and celebrate their journey of self-development.
Critical Activities
- Whip Around
- Free Throw Game
- Take a Stand
- Transformation Circle
- Accountability Partners
- Create a TRY Goal
- A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words
Objectives
- Review inner voice
- Identify thoughts, behaviors, and actions of others through story
- Practice challenging cognitive distortions with Six Seconds to Ready
- Build positive internal scripts
Learning Target
Targets and Statements are reviewed in the Transformation Circles and Accountability Partners.
Tools
Terms:
- Rules for Living
- Daily Rules for Living
- Protective Rules for Living
- Distortion
- Distress
- Trauma
- Chronic Stress
IAR Tools:
- This Happened! event journal
- Tracking My Day record
- Learning Targets
- Big I Statements
- ‘Above the Bar’ behaviors
- ‘Below the Bar’ behaviors
- Climb Our Mountain journal
- RFL Cycle Walk
- Six Seconds to Ready