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Activity title: Explore your internal thoughts

Participants will realize that their thoughts affect their emotions. The sooner
Objectives they realize this, the sooner they can design their lives with clarity and
and Learning purpose, and thus they can drive changes in their personal and professional
Outcome environments. In addition, through the proposed video, they will understand
how important is to know their value and ask what they worth.
Preparation & Pieces of papers with a sketch of two faces (see Annex) and pens.
Materials Digital equipment for the video.
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d Time 45 minutes
Participants take the paper with the two sketches and they are asked to write
down positive feelings on one side and negative on the other about their
professional past and their possible future.
Then the facilitator starts a conversation with them with social and
professional content, discussing various situations and how they would feel
about them, while they circle the feeling that expresses them each time.

The trainers can use the following examples:
• How do you felt when someone judge you in a wrong way?
• How do you felt when someone rejected you for a possible job?
• Did you feel that something better will come up or were you
Instructions completely disappointed?
• What do you think when someone says that every rejection creates a
new opportunity?
• How do you feel when try to find a better job?

At the end of the conversation, participants will see how many times they
circled positive feelings and negative feelings.

After that, they can watch the proposed video with title “Know your value
and then ask for it” and you can find it here (duration 8 minutes).It is about
helpful successful stories about a better communication of someone’s value
and how you can ask to be paid more depending on your excellence.
The aim of this activity is to realize the feelings that we have in different
Tips & situations and where they focus most: on negative feelings or positive
Recommendat feelings? In addition, the video will help them to realize how important is to
appreciate their value and claim what they deserve.
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Another useful tip could be to give participants some negative statements or
describe negative situations and ask them to turn them into positive ones in

Project 2019-1-BG01-KA204_062299
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