- Practice active listening with peers
- Understand the importance of community and collaboration to achieve a common goal
- Break the ice & have fun!
- Instruct students to arrange themselves in a circle and say the following (you don’t have to read it like a script, feel free to make it your own!)
- To form relationships, build community, and work toward a common goal, a safe and supportive environment is needed, hence the circle we are in today. While individually we can all make an impact in changing our school’s culture around mental health, coming together and working as a community can create a bigger impact and make us all feel less alone too!
- The Rain Game is an example of a group creating something good together. To begin, we need to be silent and follow the next ten steps as I call them out. We’ll perform each step for approximately 10 seconds before moving on to the next.
- Rub your fingers together
- Rub your hands together
- Snap your fingers
- Clap softly
- Clap loudly
- Pat your chest
- Pat your legs
- Stomp your feet
- Stomp and clap at the same time, add “crashing” noises with your mouth.
- Then go backward (steps 9-1), taking the noises away one by one until we were back to rubbing fingers together.
The Rain Game showed us that together, we can work toward an outcome that is stronger and louder than what we could do on our own.
- Were you surprised at how loud the “rain storm” sound was as a group when individually rubbing your fingers together doesn’t make that much noise? What does that say about the power of a group?
- How can we take what we learned about working together and apply it to the work we want to do with our OMM club?
- Be mindful of the varying abilities of folks in your club. Let everyone know that it’s ok if someone has to skip/modify a step for any reason and that they are still making just as big of an impact!