LESSON 1: BRAINPOWER 2.

Parietal Lobe
 Helps people understand
what they see and feel
 Brain – main control center of  Language and touch
coordination; protected by skull
 size: small head of a 3. Temporal Lobe
cauliflower  Hearing and word
 weight: 1.4 kg recognition abilities
 wrinkled, pinkish-grey, 3 lbs  Hearing, learning, and
feeling

THREE MAJOR PARTS 4. Occipital Lobe

 Vision functions
1. Brain Stem  Sight
 Connects the spinal cord to
the brain
 Function: breathing, heart  Doug Pastels
rate, food digestion, blood  Says that brain cells
pressure regenerate throughout life,
but new growth happens
2. Cerebellum very slowly after a certain
 Controls voluntary age
movement  “size of brain doesn’t
o Neurons – basic increase much after 3”
functional unit of the
nervous system;
comprised of nerve  Synaptogenesis
cell body, axon,  Creation of pathways for
dendrite cells to communicate

1) Thought moves as an electrical

 Mind Mapping
signal from the nerve cell down to
 Invented by Tony Buzan
axon to a dendrite
 Powerful thinking tool,
2) Signal jumps from the end of the
graphical technique that
dendrite on one cell across the
mirrors the way the brain
space, called synapse, to the
works
dendrite of another cell with the
help of the chemical called
neurotransmitters
3) Signal continues to jump from cell LESSON 2: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
to cell until it reaches the muscle  The ability to understand,
use, and manage emotions
3. Cerebrum TYPES OF EMOTIONS
 Largest part; 85% of the 1. Happiness
brain’s weight 2. Sadness
3. Anger
FOUR LOBES OF CEREBRUM 4. Fear
1. Frontal Lobe HOW TO IMPROVE EQ
 personality and emotions 1. Being aware of your emotions
 Thinking, memory, behavior, 2. Understanding how others feel and
movement why
3. Managing emotional reactions
 4. Choosing your mood LESSON 5: WHY RELATIONSHIPS ARE
IMPORTANT?
LESSON 3: TYPES OF RESPONSES
1. Passive Response
 To not express your needs POSITIVE
and feelings / expressing
them so weakly 1. Live longer
 Leads to resentment, 2. Deal with stress
frustration, and lack of self- 3. Be healthier
respect 4. Feel richer

2. Aggressive Response
 Hostile or demanding way NEGATIVE
 May offend others 1. Depression
2. Decreased immune function
3. Assertive Response 3. Higher blood pressure
 Clear, respectful, and direct
way
 Does not offend the other
LESSON 6: COMMON RELATIONSHIP
person
PROBLEMS

LESSON 4: PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

1. Affairs
 Close connection between 2. Sexual issues
people; dynamic 3. Differences
4. Life stages
5. Trauma
3 KINDS 6. Responses
7. Boredom
1. Family 8. Jealousy
 Two or more persons who 9. “blended” family issues
are related by birth, 10. Domestic violence
marriage or adoption living 11. Regret
together in one household 12. Lack of responsibility
13. Unrealistic expectations
CHARACTERISTICS
14. Addictions/substance abuse
 Support 15. Excessive reliance on social media
 Mutual trust 16. Lack of support
 Regular interactions 17. Manipulation
 Shared beliefs or values 18. Lack of communication
 Security 19. Poor divisions
 Sense of community 20. Perceives lack of concern, care, and
consideration/ attentiveness
2. Friends 21. Significant personal disappointments
 Close tie between two or and traumas
more people 22. Long term depression or other mental
 Average person has about health issues
six close ties (Nicholas 23. Significant difference
Christakis & James Fowler) 24. Long-term Stress
25. Unsupportive partner
3. Partnerships
 Two people being in a
relationship (romantic)
LESSON 7: NURTURING RELATIONSHIPS
 Supportive connections 3 TYPES OF ABUSE
where both people care for
and help each other grow 1. Physical abuse
 Causes physical pain or
injury
1. Connect with your family 2. Sexual abuse
2. Spend the right amount of time  Any form of sexual activity
together without consent
3. Learn to forgive
4. Be compassionate 3. Emotional abuse
5. Accept others  Attempts to frighten, control,
6. Practice gratitude or manipulate
7. Create rituals together

LESSON 10: ABUSE AND ASSAULT

LESSON 8: TEN RULES FOR FINDING
LOVE  Abuse – hurting or
mistreating someone
 Assault – attacking or
1. You must love yourself first attempting to harm
2. Partnering is a choice: nurture the someone; violence or
relationship for it to thrive aggression
3. Creating love is a process ABUSE
4. Provide opportunities to grow
5. Communication is essential 1. Emotional abuse
6. Negotiation will be required 2. Verbal abuse
7. Relationship will be challenged by 3. Financial abuse
change 4. Child abuse
8. Nurture the relationship 5. Elder abuse
9. Renewal is kay to longevity
10. You will forget all this the moment you
fall in love ASSAULT
1. Physical assault
LESSON 9: KEEPING HEALTHY 2. Sexual assault
RELATIONSHIP 3. Domestic assault
4. Workplace assault
5. School assault
 Involve honesty, trust,
respect, and open
communication LESSON 11: MAKING THE DECISION
WHETHER OR NOT TO HAVE SEX

BOTH PARTNERS SHOULD

ASK YOURSELF
1. Be treated with kindness and respect
2. Be honest with each other  Am I really ready to have sex?
3. Spend time together  How will I feel after I have sex?
4. Take an interest in things that are  Am I doing this for the right reasons?
important to each other  How will I protect myself and my
5. Respect one another’s emotional, partner from STIs or pregnancy?
physical, and sexual limits  How will I feel about my partner
6. Speak honestly with their feelings afterward?
 9. Right to be respectfully asked, not
ordered
NONSEXUAL WAYS TO SHOW YOU CARE
CONSIDER THE FF:
1. Spend time together
2. Hugs and kisses 1. Patience
3. Holding hands 2. Honesty
4. Go to church together 3. Kindness
4. Respect

LESSON 12: HOW TO AVOID PEER OR

DATE PRESSURE LESSON 13: FAMILY STRUCTURES

1. Hang out with friend who think it’s ok 1. Nuclear family

not to be ready for sex - Consist at most of a father, mother,
2. Go out with group of friends rather and children
than only your date - “traditional family”
3. Introduce your friends to your parents
4. Invite your friends to your home 2. Extended family
5. Stick up for your friend if they are - Consist of parents and children,
being pressured to have sex grandparents and grandchildren,
6. Think of what you would say in aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
advance in case someone tries to
pressure you 3. Step families
7. Always carry money for a phone call or - Two families bought together due
cab in case you feel uncomfortable to divorce, separation, and
8. De ready to call a friend or family to remarriage
pick you up if you need to leave a date
9. Never feel obligated to “pay” someone 4. Single parent family
with sex in turn of a date or gift - Father/mother who is singly
10. Say “no” and mean “no” is that’s how responsible for raising a child
you feel
5. Adoptive family
– one or more children has been
LESSON 13: BASIC RIGHTS IN A adopted
RELATIONSHIP
6. Bi-racial or multi-racial family
- Parents are members of different
1. Right to emotional support racial identity groups
2. Right to heard by the other and to
respond 7. Trans-racial adoptive family
3. Right to your own POV, even if it - Adoptive child is of a different racial
differs from your partner’s group identity than the parent
4. Right to have your feelings and
experiences acknowledged as real 8. Blended family
5. Right to live free from accusation and - Consist members from two or more
blame previous families
6. Right to live free from criticism and
judgment 9. Conditionally separated families
7. Right to live free from emotional and - Family member is separated from
physical threat the rest of the family
8. Right to live free from angry outbursts 10. Foster family
and rage - One or more children is temporary
member of the household
 11. Gay or lesbian family
- Parent’s sexual orientation is
gay/lesbian

12. Immigrant family

- Parents have immigrated to
another country; children may or
may not be immigrants

13. Migrant family

- Family that moves regularly to
places

LESSON 14: FAMILY LEGACIES

- Set of beliefs, values, and attitudes
that are passed down generation to
generation

TYPES
1. Emotional legacy
- Conceptualized and role modeled
during lifetime

2. Social legacy
- Essential interpersonal skills and
behaviors learned from family
environment

3. Spiritual legacy
- Active parental engagement
beyond church attendance
- See God as caring and loving