Lesson Two: The Principles behind your SPARK & finding your Amazing!
A sample of Lesson Two including short clips of our videos.
Objectives/Goals:
- The participants will be able to define the 3 principles and identify them as the Inside-Out Understanding.
- The participants will begin to understand how the 3 principles affect their reality.
- The participants will learn about the SPARK that resides inside of each of them and how that SPARK can help them to navigate through life’s circumstances.
Materials:
- Student Workbooks, Pg. 5: 3 Principles
- Video: The Principles behind Life & finding your SPARK!
- Video: Thought Storms
- Pen/Pencil/Markers
- Projector
- Screen
- Laptop
- Sign-In Sheet
Activities:
- The Principles behind your LIFE & finding your SPARK! – 20 minutes
- Thought Cycle versus Thought Chain: – 15 minutes
- Thought Cycle: – 15 minutes
- Q & A: – 05 minutes
Facilitator Preparation Notes:
Full notes will be provide with each lesson for facilitators.
Activity One: The Principles behind your LIFE & finding your SPARK! (20 minutes)
Before beginning the video, the facilitator can opt to share the story below about Sydney Banks. The story is interesting and helpful for participants to know because of all he accomplished even through the trails of his life just by the understanding of where his experience comes from.
Sample Questions for SPARK, THOUGHT and CONSCIOUSNESS:
- What is the SPARK? Example Answers: The energy behind all human experience. Everything that is felt, seen and encountered. All creation.
- What comes from the SPARK that helps guide you? Example Answers: Wisdom, Gut Feeling, Insight, SPARK, Common Sense.
- Can you think of a time your SPARK helped you find a solution? Example Answer: When my friend came to pick up a book and I couldn’t find it but something kept telling me to look in the box by the door. I knew it couldn’t be there so I looked everywhere else I could think of before I looked in the box. Sure enough, it was right there, in the box!
Activity Two: Thought Cycle versus Thought Chain (15 minutes)
After, showing the entire video, the facilitator will draw the Thought Cycle on the board and start with a real-life example to demonstrate how the thought cycle works.
Example Answer:
Thought: I’m going to be in so much trouble because even though I
tried to do my homework, I know it’s not all correct.
Feeling: Embarrassed, scared, anxious, unmotivated to try.
Behavior: Not turning the homework in. Not asking for help.
Result: Making a F on the homework assignment and getting even
further behind in the class.
Activity Three: Thought Storms (15 minutes)
The facilitator will play the Thought Storm video or use real-life examples to demonstrate how thinking created around past and/or negative circumstances can impact a person’s ability to access their SPARK.
Sample Questions for Thought Storms:
- Does anyone have a past or negative experience that still impacts you today? If so, why?
- How does your thinking about that situation impact you? Example Answers: When you think about something in the past, it brings back the feelings associated with the thought. The memory isn’t happening but the experience of the memory repeats itself.
- Does a past experience have to dictate your future? Example Answers: No. For example, two girls can be raped at a young age. One can go on to lead a happy successful life, while the other can end up with severe anxiety and depression, never finding true happiness. It isn’t the circumstance that creates the experience; it’s the thought behind it.
- What is helpful in not letting the past dictate your future? Example Answers: Being present in the moment. Understanding that the memory of past situations and/or circumstances are not happening now in the present moment and any thought attached to those memories are just that, thoughts. Thought alone creates your experience.
To wrap-up, the facilitator will ask participants if there are any questions or concerns that they have about the class. Have participants raise their hands to keep the Q & A in an orderly fashion.