Activity 2: understanding

Learning objectives:
after the activity the participant should be able to
1. Put themselves in the shoes of the other; and
2. Gain insight into and understand of oneself and other in a non-threatening way.

Time require: 30 min

Direction:
In a group of four to six, two members will volunteer to pretend to like each other. one will imitate the others way of
speaking, gestures, posture, and vise versa, while the other participate observe.
1. After the role-play, all group participate (actors and observes) will critique how the two actors imitated each other,
emphasis should be place on the feeling to the actor
2. The activity will be complete once every participant has volunteered to role play .
Sharing and feedback:
1. How did you feel when you were you pretending to be your partner?
2. How did you feel when your actions were being imitated by your partner?
3. What attribute of your partner was easy to imitate?
4. What have you learned about yourself. Your partner, and other?
5.How can you apply the thing you learned in this activity
6. What have you learned from putting yourself in the shoes of the other by imitating them?
Activity 3: COMMUNICATION JOURNEY

Learning Objectives:
after the activity, the participants of listening be able to:
1. Reflect on the importance of listening and understanding what other people have to say; and
2. Discover one’s listening ability in a nonthreatening atmosphere.
Time require: 45 min to 1 hrs
Material needed:
-Topic for discussion of each triad.
-Question for discussion of each triad
Direction:
1. Form triads by counting off from 1 to 3.
2. Each member of the triad must be assigned as A,B and C.
3. Distribute the topics for discussion among triads.
4. In each triad, one person will act as a referee, and the other two will act as a speaker and a listener simultaneously.
5. The discussion does not need to be structure; however, before each participant speaks, he or she must first summarize, in his
or her own words what has been previously said by the other groups member.

sharing and feedback:

1. Did you have any difficulty while listening to your groupmates?
2. Did you find it difficult to formulate your thoughts and listen to your groupmates while they talked simultaneously?
3. Were there instances when you forgot what you were going to say?
4. Were there instances when you found yourself not attentively listening to your groupmates?
5. Were there instances when you found yourself rehearsing your response?
6. When your groupmate paraphrased your statements, did they capture what you meant?
7.Did the manner of presentation of your groupmates affect the way you
listened to them?
Activity 4: VILLAGE WIRE
Learning Objectives:
After the activity, the participants should able to:
1. determine how information is altered as it is transmitted from one
point to another through different media; and
2. learn to listen attentively.
Time Required: 1 hour
Materials Needed:
• Pictures
• Voice recorder
Directions:
1. Six volunteers from the class will be chosen as the participants of the activity.
2. Five of the participants will go outside the classroom, while one will remain inside the classroom.
3. The voice recorder will be used to record how information is passed on from one participant to the next.
4. From a picture provided by the instructor and with his or her supervision, the first participant will create a story based
on the picture and relay it to the second participant. The second participant will pass it onto the third, the third onto the
fourth, and the fourth onto the fifth. Afterwards, they will all go back to the classroom.
5. Once in the classroom, the fifth participant will relay the story to the sixth participant who remained inside the
classroom. The sixth participant will then tell the story to the class or write it on the board.
6. The class will then evaluate how the story was transmitted based on the voice recording.
Sharing and Feedback:
1.What was the story?
2. What has of the retold story?
3. What details were missed? What were added?
4. How did you feel about story altered as it was transmitted?
5. If the activity was to repeated with only three participants instead of
six, will the transmission of the story more accurate? Why or why not?
Activity 5: SPIT BACK
Learning Objectives: After the activity, the participants should able to:
1. determine the value of receiving feedback from others; and
2. demonstrate the proper handling of both positive and negative criticism.
Time Required: 45 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the size of group
Directions:
1. The participants should be grouped with four to five each.
2. Each member will share his or her objective criticism of his or her groupmates.
3. The criticism shall be explained or processed, and the Shall then accept and acknowledge them.
Sharing and Feedback:
1. What was your reaction to the criticism given to you? How did you feel about them?
2. Do you believe in the truthfulness of the criticism given to you?
3. Did you mind the criticism given to you? Why or why not?
4. What did you learn from the reactions of your other groupmates when faced with criticism?
Activity 6: UNDER THE SEA EXPLORATION
Learning Objectives:
After the activity, the participants should able to:
1. discuss and evaluate their priorities; and
2. determine what things are most important to them.
Time Required: 20-30 minutes
Directions:
1. The class will be asked to close their eyes and focus on a particular place under the sea.
2. They will be asked what they see and hear, and why these things are important to them.
3. For 10 minutes, they will keep their eyes closed and continue exploring the sea from their imagination. From their
exploration, they will be told to keep in mind the things they would like to take home with them.
4. Afterwards, they will share experiences with a partner.
Sharing and Feedback:
1. How did it feel to explore the sea through your imagination?
2.Were you able to visualize things in the sea What things were Important to you? Why were they important?
3. What object from the sea did you decide to bring with you? Why?
4. What value does this object have for you?
5. How did you feel about sharing your experience of exploring the sea, through your imagination, with a partner?
Activity 7: THE WORLD’S DOOM
Learning Objectives:
After the activity, the participants should able to:
1. assess what is important in life; and
2. evaluate one's way of making decisions in times of crisis.
Time Required: 45 minutes
Material Needed:
• Blindfolds
Direction:
1. to put on blindfolds. They will be instructed to put themselves in the following scenario:
Imagine that you have been blinded by the flash of a hydrogen bomb. You are now in an underground shelter, and you know that
the ventilation system will completely malfunction in 20 minutes and that everyone in the shelter will surely die. There is
absolutely no possibility of from the room. You have 20 minutes left in the world, in the room, with the people and things
contained in it. You need to aware of how you feel and how you use your last 20 minutes you will be told when your time is up.
2. After 20 minutes, the students will be told their time is up. They will be given a few minutes to absorb the experience and
record how they felt and what they did during the time given to them. They will now remove their blindfolds and form groups of
five or six. Each member of the group will talk about their experience of imagining themselves in the given scenario.
3. The whole class will be asked to contemplate about their life after in a scenario that involved dying.
Sharing and Feedback:
1. How did you feel about put in a helpless position with no other choice but to wait to die?
2. Were you able to do what you wanted in 20 minutes?
3. If put in an actual situation like that of the activity, how would you like to spend the short time you have left to live?
4. What are the things that you realized you need to accomplish it is already too late?
  SUMMING UP
Community service is performed for the welfare of the community. It is executed through the efforts of willing volunteers.
Volunteers are not paid to do community service. Volunteers usually dedicate their time and effort to these activities they find
meaning in doing things that will many people.