Mike’s Example of Need for Change Name: Mike Smith Step 1: Which area in my life do I want to focus on at this time? Living Learning Working Social Name of my Current Place and Role in this Area: Resident at Main Street Adult Home Step 2: How happy am I with the people, the place, and the activities at my current place? Need Very Dissatisfied Mostly Dissatisfied Mixed Mostly Satisfied Very Satisfied How satisfied am I with the people in my current place? I don’t really like the other residents. How satisfied am I with the physical aspects of my current place? Nice TV, but I can’t watch what I want and I have to share a bedroom. I have no privacy. I can’t get healthy because I smell other people’s cigarettes. How satisfied am I with the activities in my current place? I’m bored w/ activities, and annoyed w/ chores.
Acceptance Accountability Achievement Adventure Advocacy Ambition Appreciation Attractiveness Autonomy Balance Being the Best Benevolence Boldness Brilliance Calmness Caring Challenge Charity Cheerfulness Cleverness Community Commitment Compassion Cooperation Collaboration Consistency Contribution Creativity Credibility Curiosity Daring Decisiveness Dependability Diversity Empathy Encouragement Enthusiasm Ethics Excellence Expressiveness Fairness Family Friendships Flexibility Freedom Fun Generosity Grace Growth Flexibility Happiness Health Honesty Humility Humor Inclusiveness Independence Individuality Innovation Inspiration Intelligence Intuition Joy Knowledge Leadership Learning Love Loyalty Making a Difference Mindfulness Motivation Optimism Open-Mindedness Originality Passion Performance Personal Development Proactive Professionalism Quality Recognition Risk Taking Safety Security Service Spirituality Stability Peace Perfection Playfulness Popularity Power Preparedness Proactivity Punctuality Relationships Reliability Resilience Resourcefulness Responsibility Responsiveness Security Self-Control Selflessness Simplicity Stability Success Teamwork Thankfulness Thoughtfulness Traditionalism Trustworthiness Understanding Uniqueness Usefulness Versatility Vision Warmth Wealth Well-Being Wisdom Zeal Exercise Option 2: In this exercise you will be using the skill of understanding your values by placing them in the context of your life.
WONDERFUL! The rest of the class will focus on honing down your goal so that it’s not too broad or too unmanageable. As we discussed, we want to prepare for the barriers that may get in our way to living our goal. Goal statements with incremental steps help us to have more control of the process. It also helps us to feel successful! When one piece of the goal is completed, celebrate because you will be one step closer to your goal! SESSION SIX: My Goals RECAP: In the last five classes, we’ve discovered a lot about ourselves! We have explored areas that we would like to change. We’ve explored our values, feelings, potential barriers and our personal strengths we can use to face them. All of this knowledge will be put into action today! We will determine our goals and write them out. Exercise: What if I Still Have No Goals? No Sweat! (5 minutes) Ask each person (whether they have goals or not) to visualize an ‘ideal day’. The duration of this exercise is short because this is intended to capture a person’s first thoughts.