MODULE: Emotions and Inner Comfort SUBJECT TITLE: Comfort zone Gintarė Joteikaitė
Subject title
Purpose of the activity
Duration
Location and tools Number of participants
Comfort zone
To introduce participants with the concept and meaning of the “comfort zone”, the importance of defining the limits of psychological comfort for the human psyche, and to provide tools to consciously accept and process psychological reactions that occur in pursuit of personal goals.
2-4 hours.
The presentation requires a projector, writing board, paper and writing tools for participants, tables, chairs, coloured adhesive tape (in order to mark the levels of comfort zones in space).
15-30 participants.
Comfort zone‘s circles are depicted on the floor in the selected way:
Acquaintance/ team building methods
The leader of the session briefly describes their meanings (says they will get more information about all that during the session) and asks to intuitively choose a zone where each participant feels he/she is at the present stage of his/her life. Is your life’s daily routine usual and safe or do phenomena take place on a daily basis that make you feel insecure and outside your comfort zone? Participants are given one minute to choose a circle that is relevant to them, and then everyone is invited to introduce himself/herself and briefly explain why they chose this particular circle and how it is reflected in their daily routine.
comfort zone
optimal performance zone danger zone
Task “Challenge Marathon“
Practical tasks
102
All participants are divided into groups of seven to ten people. Each group is provided with a to do list of five necessary tasks. The list can be compiled taking into account the specifics of the settlement in question, the specificity of the target group of young people being worked with, and the like. The following list of tasks is possible: • to organize a public campaign; • to sing a well-known song with the whole group on public transport; • to visit and cheer somehow one relative or friend of any group member; • to take a photo of ten people, an animal, a woman with a trolley, a child under ten years old, and a monument; • to shoot a one minute video in which all members of the group jump with a jump-rope.
