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Keywords: Personal Boundaries; Respect; Living Together
Objectives: Acknowledging and respecting personal boundaries and how to coexist within them.
Respecting the personal space of others.
Target group: Suitable for any group, including children.
Duration: 10 minutes
Methodology step-by-step: 1. Introduce yourself normally to the group whilst holding a hula hoop around yourself. Ask the participants to say their names. Then, introduce the schedule for the day whilst walking around the room. Do not make any reference to the hula hoop.
2. After a few minutes, say ‘today, as I do every day, I have left home with my personal boundaries. I just decided to make them a little more visible.’
3. Ask the participants if they have brought their boundaries with them and to check if they can see the boundaries of the other participants.
4. Ask the participants to choose a hula hoop. The diameter of the one they choose should represent the distance they want to keep between them and someone else. Make it clear that this distance is not fixed or permanent and depends on the situation and people involved.
Resources needed: Hula hoops in different sizes
Challenges: None