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Katuka Leadership Programme

What is Part I about?

A Call to Adventure
Reflection Question
Special Video – “What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler”
Describe your hero’s journey
Three Good Things Activity

What Do You Want Most?
What Do You desire?
Three Good Things Activity
Happiness Questions
Reflection Questions

How Can You Make It Happen?
The Happiness Advantage
Three Good Things Activity
Pleasant Events Activity
Reflection Questions
Let Go: Awareness and Acceptance
The path to self-acceptance, paved through daily practice

Mindfulness and Acceptance
Ode an die Freude (Ode to Joy) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music
Mindful Breathing Activity
Three Good Things Activity
Reflection Questions
Fact Checking Thoughts Worksheet

Resilience and Stress-Related Growth
Heather Dorniden’s Inspiring 600 meter race!
Resilience in the Past
Resilience in the Future
Three Good Things Activity
The Brief Resilience Scale

Wisdom and Creativity
The best gift I ever survived | Stacey Kramer”
Reflection Questions
Wheel of Life Activity
Three Good Things Activity
Strategies for Developing Divergent Thinking

What is part 2 about?

Discovering Your Best
Take the VIA Survey Activity
Using Your Strengths While at Your Best
Strength Spotting in a Movie
Exercise is to increase your awareness of activities that rely on your strengths or weaknesses.
Strength Exercises Worksheet: You, At Your Best
Strength Exercises Worksheet: Strength Regulation
Identify strengths in others
Strength Spotting in a Relationship

Authenticity
Planning New Ways to Use Your Strengths
Using Your Strengths in New Ways
Special Video - “The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown”
Reflection Questions

Perseverance
Special Video - “Grit: the power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth”
Grit Scale Quiz
Use a Top Strength to Put Yourself in Flow
Development of Grit

Courage
Special video – “Adorable Girl Tells her Divorced Parents to be Friends”
When You Showed Courage
Overcoming Fear
Investing in Valued Relationships

Self-Efficacy
Special Video: “The Most Inspirational Video You Will Ever See - Nick Vujicic's Story”
Reflection Question
Increasing Your Self-Efficacy
Using a Top Strength in a New Way to Reach a Goal

Self-Control
Special Video – “Marshmallow Test – (funny)”
Increasing Self-Control
Savouring
Reflection Questions

What is Part 3 about?

Social Intelligence
Special Video – “Active Constructive Responding”
Who Are You Grateful For?
Relationship Appreciative Inquiry
Reflection Questions

Love
Special Video – “Dr. Maya Angelou – Love Liberates”
Reflection Questions
Gratitude Letter
Languages of Love Survey
Excercise: Fast Friends: Develop a sense of closeness to others.

Kindness
Special Video – “The power of kindness: Johann Berlin”
Identifying Acts of Kindness
Planning Acts of Kindness
Doing a Kind Act for Someone You Know

Community Positive Psychology
Special Video – “RSA Animate: The Empathetic Civilisation”
Kind Act for a Stranger
Gratitude for Groups and Communities
Community Cause Inventory

Fairness and Justice
Special Video - “Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally”
Countering Selective Exposure with Open-mindedness
Community Cause Inventory
Do Something to Support a Cause
Self-Love

Forgiveness
Special Video – “The power of forgiveness” with Steve Hartman
A Time When You Were Hurt and Benefits of Forgiveness
Forgiving Yourself for Something
Reflection Questions

What is Part 4 about?

Creating a Better Future
Special Video – “Lily’s Disneyland Surprise”
Writing about Your Best Possible Life
Getting Materials for the PATH Process

Optimism and Hope
Special Video - “Wow: Autistic Waterboy scores Non-Stop 3- pointers!”
PATH Process Steps 3 and 4
Making Hope Happen
Reflection Questions

Humour
Special Video – “Human Behaviour experiment Lift Antics”
Using What You Learned to Realize Your Best Possible Life
Path Process Steps 5 and 6
Reflection Questions

Appreciation and Gratitude
Special Video – “The Shawshank Redemption Opera Scene”
Finishing the PATH Process
Stress Inoculation Training for Potential Obstacles
Reflection Questions

Meaning and Purpose
Special Video – “Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl/Core Message”
Reflection Questions
The Benefits of a Meaningful Life
Paying It Forward

Review and Celebration
Special Video - “Gratitude | Louie Schwartzberg”.
Reflection Questions
Celebrate Completing the Challenge!
Complete the Well-Being Survey

Gratitude for Groups and Communities

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