Dont worry, be happy

• include activities, which will encourage happiness in learning process;
• include activities, which give learners opportunity for personal growth;
• motivate learners to see themselfs capable of dealing with problems in their life

Pupils, students, young migrants and asyluum seekers

1. Activities, which encourage happiness

1. Minutes to inspire ourself: read them poem or passages from books, tell them stories or play music that lifts the mood.
2. Activities that include humor: include jokes, funny stories and facts into your explanation, imitate persons or things when learners start to lose their attention, between breaks eat or do things, that release hormones of happiness.
3. Active office/school/ … : 5-10 minutes inside workout for disburdening
4. Minutes outside: have learning hours outside, prepare debate in the park, complete your lession by walking around town.
5. Out of the box thinking activities and challenges

2. Activities that help to cope with resentments and fears

1. Video clips about why they are valueable to someone: f.e. classmates, trainers and if it is possible even from family members and other people in school;
2. Weekly letters: for example they need to write letter to the time, love, death, hate, guilt, fear or have a task to write letters of thanks orr letters of forgivness to each others. This is writing therpahy, when feelings and concepts are personalize and help students to become awate of their internal distress
3. Supportive circles: what can we do for you today? This is the same concept as it is known in supporting groups: listen to each other, talk about similar issues, sharing experiences.
4. I can do this: activities out and in the school, that based on beliefs about the inability to do something in a way that learners are repeatedly assigned to some of the tasks, which contains the skill or knowledge, for which they wrongly claims that is out of their abilities.
5. One good act per day: doing something good for someone for free and without expectations.

3. Activities, which motivate learners to see themselfs capable of dealing with problems

1. Watch films, where they can learn more about bacgorunds and rare-known facts about certain famous people form the past and nowdays, who need to overcome many obsticles.
2. Art exihibition: students/pupils present their views or express their feeling trought art products (films, photos, drawings, paintings, sculptures, spatial design).
3. Motivation tasks, which give learners active role, f.e. »Our program need new sport program. W ho is going to help me creat it?«
4. Peer intervision: more about activities in activity sheet Peer intervision

Papers, pens, flipchart, letters, TV, laptops, art material, books, magazines

Method of conversation, method of work with video and educational technology, consulting, interview method, method of cocreating

Exercise contains general descriptions, implementation in practice is left to the teacher 's or trainer's level of knowledge and creativity. Some of the activities, such as circles of support, letter and art exhibition,  require cooperation with counselors, art teachers or language teachers. In the sections of description there are indicated possible activities, trainer is allowed to combine them in accordance with the purpose of demand.