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Offering to help others

Content Focus: The student will be able to recognize opportunities to help others.

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The Next Three Slides Explain Steps to Offer Help.

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After we Recognize Steps to Offering Help, we can move into our Activity Slides

Skip to Activities:

  • Slide 8: How to Help During Quarantine
  • Slide 9: Group Circles
  • Slide 10: What Offering Help Does for You
  • Slide 11: Activity Links to Check Out
  • Slide 12: Game Night! (With a Catch)
  • Slide 13: Sculpting Stories

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Questions to Consider:

  • With your family, friends, or someone you can talk to, consider the following questions about Offering Help:
    • When is the last time you asked for help?
    • When have you last helped someone without being asked?
    • Do you look for chances to help others?
    • How does it feel to offer help to someone?
    • What is something you can do this week that would be helpful to your family, friends, or community?

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Benefits:

  • Creates a sense of belonging
  • Helps us keep things in perspective.
  • Helping others is contagious!
  • Physiological: endorphins, lowers blood pressure
  • Gives us a sense of purpose

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SOCIAL SKILLS LESSON

Please watch this video that reviews the four steps to effectively offer help to others

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“Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give.”

Click the image or right here to access a great video on the importance of helping others.

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The next slides have more information and Activities to help us practice offering help to others.

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No need to accomplish all tasks.

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Choose 1 per day. Choose a few for the Week. Do what’s right for you and your family.

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How We Can Offer Help During “Stay at Home Safe:”

[With parent permission and involvement:]

  • Support to No Kid Hungry, Meals on Wheels, or Central Texas Food Bank.
  • Remote Volunteering to our local Nursing Homes & Care Facilities
    • Call facilities to ask what they are accepting and/or what could be of use
      • i.e. Phone calls, messages, cards, flowers, gift cards

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You can also offer support by focusing your energy into you. As best you can, take care of yourself, get good sleep, eat healthy, be kind, read books, and soak up sunshine.

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Group Circles/Meetings/Gatherings

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  • With your family, friends, or someone you can talk to, consider the following questions about Offering Help:
    • When is the last time you asked for help?
    • When have you last helped someone without being asked?
    • Do you look for chances to help others?
    • How does it feel to offer help to someone?
    • What is something you can do this week that would be helpful to your family, friends, or community?

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Acts of kindness may be a gift you give to others...

But look at the impact it has on you!

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  • Kindness produces oxytocin, increasing self-esteem and optimism.
  • Kindness lights up your pleasure and reward center, giving you “helper’s high.”
  • Kindness increases your energy levels.
  • Perpetually kind people experience 23 percent less stress hormones—making them age more slowly.

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Activities to Display skill:

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Game Night! (with a Catch:)

  • Find a game to play with a partner or a group
    • Videogames can be played solo
  • THE CATCH (New Direction/Rule:)
    • Play the game trying to help other players. Do not make decisions to benefit ONLY yourself.
    • If you benefit as well, bonus!

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Sculpting Stories:

We can help others by offering our time to listen, support, and be present.

  • Interview a person of your choice:
    • Someone at home with you
    • Call family member(s)
    • Call a local care facility or nursing home (resources on slide 7)
  • Create a visual representation of what you learned about the person you interviewed.
  • Share what you’ve created with the person you’ve interviewed, or a larger audience [with parent permission.]
    • Sharing shows we were fully present and listening to our interviewees.