All Practices
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Honesty Mode: No Cheat Codes
Students discuss honesty and create personal commitments to act with honesty for the year.
Tuning into Truthfulness
Students explore how honesty and dishonesty feel in the body.
The Generosity Experiment
Students experiment and observe how it feels to be generous.
Moving Forward with Hope
A simple exercise to help you identify a goal and visualize how you will achieve it
A Hopeful Plan
A goal-setting process for students that fosters hope in action
Is Fair, Fair?
Learn the difference between equality and equity
Truth or Tale?
A fun and quick game about honesty
A Hopeful Legacy
Students foster hope through connecting with what is important to them and related goals.
Mindshifts: An Intellectual Humility Reflection Tool
Help students cultivate intellectual humility by reflecting on a belief they have reconsidered.
Become an Admitter
Students or staff members celebrate humility (“I was wrong”) and practice curiosity (“Tell me more”) so that they can become more comfortable with making mistakes and increase their capacity for open-mindedness.
Checking Your Perspective
Partners practice perspective-taking (and perspective-receiving) when writing about their responses to a given scenario.
Asking Effective Interview Questions
Students play a question game that helps them to develop interview questions at three different levels of inquiry.
What Kind of Happy Are You?
Students identify and discuss moments when they experience 10 positive emotions.
Asking Powerful Questions
Students learn about cultivating a curious mindset by asking powerful questions.
Practicing Shallow vs. Deep Curiosity
Students learn about the differences between shallow and deep curiosity and develop questions that reflect both levels of curiosity.
Module 8.1 Purpose for Students
Module 7.1 Purpose for Educators
Take-Home Skill: Nurture Conversation Skills to Bridge Differences for Teens
Help teens learn communication strategies to enhance their capacity to bridge differences.
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