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Namah Vol. 26, Issue 3, 15th October 2018

and try to find a solution. But we do not want “That someone has stolen our tent.”
to think badly of anyone. So it is best not to
mention names, but to just state the traits that Now we will all be detectives, not romantics, and
are pertinent to the discussion. Another request try to guess the emotions of people we see in
to participants is that none of the personal these clippings. The clippings are emotionally
stories be repeated outside of the classrooms, charged but do not have too many conversations.
since it may embarrass the persons involved. Participants have to guess the background
Participants may discuss if they would like to story of the scene and explain why the actors
add to these rules for their group. behave as they do, what they feel, overtly
and covertly. Each participant gets a chance
Here are some learning-aids: journaling and to speak. We will discuss choice of words,
goal-setting. Writing down what you have body language and postures.
learnt is common knowledge, and we all know
how it works to refresh our memories. But Role-playing is an important tool for self-
writing down here is crucial to our progress. healing. Behaviours can change our attitudes,
The power of intention is like warming up and attitudes can change our beliefs. The
before a race, so write down what you would Behaviourist school of thought endorses this
like to achieve. You can be as precise as through countless experiments. Cognitive
possible by using exact numbers and dates. therapists start from the other end and say
For example, in two months you want to reduce thoughts create shifts in behaviour. Both are
your anger outbursts by half. Or it can be true. A pattern may work for a certain person
qualitative, like you want to focus on listening in a certain situation, but another pattern may
for as long as it takes you to master it. This be needed elsewhere. We will use them both
journal is also helpful in writing down action to our advantage.
plans. These are concrete behaviour goals
you want to implement. Suppose you want There is a take-home project that participants
to drink more water, your action plan may will have to present in the following session.
be to keep a note of how many glasses you In the next session we will discuss various
drink in a day. Teaming up with others to kinds of emotions. Each one will act out their
remind each other, or keeping count for each emotions, and others will guess it. The actor
other, is a good plan too. Every two months can use his face alone, or his entire body, or
we will reflect on how the training is going some prop, or use someone else, or read out
and if we want to make changes to it. some conversation. Each one should prepare
at least one subtle emotion in addition to
Topic 2: Emotional Intelligence common ones.

Sherlock Holmes awoke Watson and asked him, We will start the session by presenting
“Watson, what do you see?” the performance of emotions that was the
Watson looked up and said, “I see a beautiful homework from the last session. Each one
starry night.” gets a chance to guess the emotion presented.
“And what do you conclude from it?” We will then discuss differences of opinion.
“That it will not rain tonight. What about you?” For children this can be done in teams and

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