4.3(C) Sharing of Take-Away Activities: Personal Commitment Statement

Learning Objectives:

• To share experience on developing committed action plan in our lives
• To explore barriers and facilitators to carrying out committed action

Materials: Committed Action Worksheet 3.9.3

Time Required: 30 Minutes

Activities & Instructions

Instructions to Participants:

Facilitator says,

• “In our last session we have explored how we can clarify values and used that to guide us in developing committed actions. Our take-home activities were to set some goal in our personal and community life and identify action step for today’s session, right?”
• “Can we go around and share with us your key values and goals, and one action that you are committed to carry out in your personal life? We will leave the community level action for another activity later today.”
• (Facilitator invites all participants to take turn and share. Co-facilitator to write down on flipchart of participants’ reported “personal committed actions”. Facilitator would only ask questions to clarify the specifics of the action or its connection to the values/goals (if they seem contradictory). Do not comment on the feasibility or appropriateness of someone else’s proposed action.)
• If the size of the group is large, facilitators can stop after about half the group has shared their planned action. After participants’ sharing, co-facilitator will post the flipchart of the list of committed action on the wall.

Facilitator says,

• “Thank you all for sharing. Do you foresee any barriers or challenges that may keep you from carrying out these actions? Can you think of any support or resources that may facilitate these actions? Let us share some of these thoughts in popcorn style?”
• Co-facilitator to take notes on flipcharts in two columns, one for barriers and one for facilitators to the planned action. After participants shared their ideas, facilitator says,
• “Thank you all for sharing, and we can see, change takes time, some life goals can be a long term process, and there are challenges and barriers along the way, but if we can try to stay focused on our core values and stay on course like what we did in the bus driver exercise, it will help us go towards our value-guided direction.”
• “I would also like you to look through the list and see if you can identify some of the common goals and strategies that we share. When we develop our follow up plan at the end of the training this afternoon, let us see if we can find synergy in our common goals that will support us in continuing our learning journey together.”

Source:

Fung, K. P., & Wong, J. P. (2014). ACT Training Manual. Toronto, ON: Strength In Unity Project