Junior Cycle Year One Wellbeing Learning Unit: Friendship Champions

via the curriculum by offering For a number of years, CDI has worked with knowledge, skills and awareness and this is what the PDST to train teachers to be restorative the content of this Learning Unit aims to build, practitioners and support them to bring RP to and for wellbeing by considering not only what their classrooms and beyond. [...] Support people’s shares with non-verbal The intention here is to introduce and focus communication (building their capacity everyone to the circle process which involves to share to the group as their practice learning to listen and learning to ask. [...] Stretch intention of the Group Check In is to build the Moments and Theory into Practice activities feeling of safety and connection in the group and invite Friendship Champions to work in pairs gradually grow the students’ capacity to share and smaller groups to maximise engagement. [...] We need to remember, notice and pay attention to Ask the rest of the group to stand in a circle the good and create lots of positive interactions outside the inner one and to face one person to cancel out a negative one. [...] See if students can come up with a respectful way to decide who takes the empty chair to begin the game and to respectfully honour the winner! (For example, the first person to touch the chair wins and the other person congratulates them).