Lesson #3 Self-Awareness: bringing humor into your life
Students should know and understand:
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How to help themselves by
bringing humor into their lives.
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Students should be able to:
| Identify those things that cause them to feel stressed/ angry/ annoyed. | Use humor to trigger laughter and thus give them a new perspective on any given situation. |
Method:
The assignment: "In the next 24 (or 48) hours, take note of what irritates/upsets/stresses you. Then put on your humor glasses and exaggerate the conditions until you can find the humor in the upsetting situation. The humor can take the form of a written story/joke or a drawn cartoon."
For example: A child is upset by his mother's critical attitude: his room is never neat enough and the child feels the mother always corrects his behaviour. To humorize the situation, the child might consider drawing a cartoon where his mother has huge eyes in the shape of magnifying glasses, walking around the child's spotlessly clean room with a white glove checking the shelves for dust.
Here, the child exaggerated the situation to enable humor to come into it.
Reflection: After the students create the more humorous perspective, they should discuss in small groups if and what changes occurred (e.g. more relaxed feeling in the situation, a new perspective or a change in behaviour).
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