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Ways Of Being In Dialogue

This guide offers actions to take when engaging in dialogue. Organized into six sections covering topics such as vulnerability, asking questions, and appreciating others’ engagement, the document provides concrete, actionable steps to use in various situations. Individual users can consider how to incorporate these into their own dialogues and exchanges.

We’re Not Really Strangers

“We’re Not Really Strangers” sells a range of question-based games and activities that allow users to strengthen various relationships. The website offers free quizzes, downloads, and other tools that people can use to learn more about themselves and their relationships.

You Soup Recipe Exercise

This activity helps participants to identify and explore social identities, personal identities, and experiences that shape one's health and well-being. Contains guidelines for facilitation, an explanation of the activity with group discussion and feedback, and a copy of the participant worksheet.

Relationship Quadrants

This activity helps users to clarify what they do and do not want in relationships; it can also be applied to any other kind of decision-making scenario. The worksheet is divided into four areas: "Must-haves," "Bonuses," "Tolerables" and "Deal-Breakers."

Ripple Effect Activity

This worksheet helps students to think through the impact of their actions on their immediate circle, the campus community, and society as a whole. Designed for guided group sessions, it allows students to reflect individually on their own actions before sharing them with the wider group.

Self-Love for Activists Workbook

Designed to support student activists with the tools and skills that they need to develop their work as activists, views, and attitudes towards wellness-promoting behaviors, this workbook consists of information sheets, worksheets, and resource guides that students can work through individually or in a group setting.

Spheres of Influence

This worksheet provides a diagram and prompts that encourage individuals to think about circles in which they have resources and relationships, and how they can leverage those circles to influence change. Facilitators can guide students through the four spheres of influence.

Talking Across Difference

This video offers strategies for addressing differences with close family and friends, including being open to other perspectives; thoughtfully introducing people to new interpretations they can appreciate; and maintaining a strong connection to others. It also addresses the PALS approach, microaggressions, and humor for communicating with people who hold different views.

Loneliness Worksheet

This worksheet encourages students to think about the kind of social connections that they might like to build in the future. The questions encourage students to think about how they can broaden their social circles, build more meaningful relationships, and take concrete steps to make new connections.

Making the First Move in Making Connections Worksheet

This worksheet has been designed to help students to make new connections and build new relationships. It includes activities that encourage students to think about how they can build new connections, provide students with conversation starters and strategies, and discuss tips for managing emotions and expectations when making the first move.