1. LUMITY REVIEW
Lesson #1

2. Setting Context for this year
Last year, the goal was to help you explore some of the key tools to help you think outside of the box, feel empowered to make decisions, and give you examples of different career paths that you could explore.
This year, Lumity is going to continue those lessons, but we are also going to add the component of working with others.
Why is it important to know how to work with teams?
It’s important for a career environment
Friendships
Romantic relationships
Setting Context for this year

3. SETTING CONTEXT FOR THIS YEAR
We are social beings.
Our lives operate with others.
This year we are going to give you TOOLS to work with lots
different personalities,
negotiate boundaries
show up in groups to assert yourself
share your gifts
and also start learning how to give feedback to teams.
SETTING CONTEXT FOR THIS YEAR

4. GROUPS/TEAMS – JOURNAL PROMPTS #1
1). Create a journal that you use for all Lumity lessons. This will be a space for you to reflect on what you are learning and how you are using the tools in this curriculum. You will have at least one entry per week. You will submit them online.
2).Journal Entry # Week of
Directions: Answer each question in complete sentences.
What you are excited about with your team?
What concerns do you have about working with a team?
What skills, gifts do you have that you can contribute to your team?
GROUPS/TEAMS – JOURNAL PROMPTS #1

5. 2). Describe one thing you feel you are good at in teams/relationships
As part of the Lumity lessons, you are going to work in teams.
How are you feeling about this? Any stinking thinking?
Planning for this Year
Directions: Answer each statement, in complete sentences. These answers will be collected and count as a grade and help with planning all your Lumity lessons this year.
1). Describe one thing you want to learn about working with other people/teams
2). Describe one thing you feel you are good at in teams/relationships
3). Describe a belief you have about working with teams.

6. HOMEWORK –DUE: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015
Find an example of a team that you admire. It can be a sports team, a team from a movie or television show.
On October 15, 2015, students will turn in:
An article, publication, or news story OR
A video clip
A written story/description which introduces the team, overviews or captures the team dynamic
Write a paragraph explaining why you chose this team and what you learned about team dynamics, and one aspect of that team that you would like to see in your tutorial/Lumity group
HOMEWORK –DUE: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015

7. Fixed vs. Growth Mindset

8. People with a fixed mindset…
Believe intelligence and personality traits are innate.
Think in terms of right and wrong
See feedback as an indictment
Are less willing to try new things 

9. People with a growth mindset…
Believe that there is room for development and growth
See their mistakes as information about where they can develop
Are open to accurate information about their current abilities, even if it’s unflattering.

10. Why is this an important life hack?
Enjoy life, even when you’re not good at it
Improve your self-insight and self-esteem
Improve your relationships
Avoid stress about being perfect
Strengthen your confidence
See single events as just that
See setbacks as useful
Enjoy putting in time and effort, rather than fearing them
Lower your risk of depression
Be better at taking responsibility for your life

11. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

12. Self-fulfilling prophecy
Our beliefs about what we think we can accomplish and what others tell us we can accomplish have a huge impact on how we interact with people and what we get out of those interactions.
We are more likely to become what we truly believe we are - whether it’s true or not.
Self-fulfilling prophecy

13. What others believe about us
How we act
How others act toward us
What we believe about ourselves

14. We are what we expect
What we believe becomes our experience, not because it is the only option, but because we choose to act in ways that affirm our beliefs
Interrupting the self-fulfilling prophecy cycle at any stage can begin to change what we believe is possible.

15. What’s the good news?
Self-fulfilling prophecies aren’t always a bad thing (they are what we make them).
The more you orient to positive beliefs, the more your brain will use them (choose those beliefs) over the negative ones.

16. Drama Triangle

17. Drama Triangle

18. The three roles Victim See responsibility as outside of themselves
Find others to blame
Persecutor
Make other people bad and wrong
Shame others
Rescuer
Save the day
Avoid their own responsibilities
Justify the actions of others
The three roles

20. How the drama triangle limits you
Keeps you in a fixed mindset
Avoid choices and possibilities
Keep your old self-fulfilling prophecies
Defined by other people rather than self-defining
How the drama triangle limits you

21. Understanding Your Emotions
A Motivating Resource

22. Fear
Hurt
Anger
Sadness
Joy
Primary Emotions

24. Benefits of Emotions Provide energy and motivation to reach goals
Help us learn
Help our memory
Critical for decision making
Benefits of Emotions

25. Black or Blue Pen?

26. Every Emotion Has a Purpose
Each Emotion Has a Purpose
Fear: warns us about danger
Hurt: helps us stay safe, tells us about our limits
Anger: tells us when something is against our values
Sadness: signals the loss of something important
Joy: signals that things are in a good place

27. Emotions in the Body Where do you feel fear? Where do you feel hurt?
Each emotion has a different response in our body.
Where do you feel fear?
Where do you feel hurt?
Where do you feel anger?
Where do you feel sadness?
Where do you feel joy?
Emotions in the Body

28. Get to Know Your Brain

29. The Brain

30. Regions of the Brain Brain = our control center 3 Main Regions:
Primitive – automatic functions: breathing, heart beat, balance/movement, scanning for threats,
known as the LIZARD BRAIN
Feeling – source of our emotional and social impulses: anger, fear, etc., activated by threats
known as the MOUSE BRAIN
Thinking – most developed part of brain; stores memory, helps us plan, imagine, find solutions, communicate with others, can control feelings. The source of our likes/dislikes, hopes, ambition known as the HUMAN BRAIN
Regions of the Brain

31. The Brain Use 20% of your body’s energy
Over 100 billion neurons – store information
Neural pathways = the roads that connect your neurons
The brain in your most complex organ
Connects everything
The Brain

32. Regions of the Brain Brain = our control center 3 Main Regions:
Primitive – automatic functions: breathing, heart beat, balance/movement, scanning for threats,
known as the LIZARD BRAIN
Feeling – source of our emotional and social impulses: anger, fear, etc., activated by threats
known as the MOUSE BRAIN
Thinking – most developed part of brain; stores memory, helps us plan, imagine, find solutions, communicate with others, can control feelings. The source of our likes/dislikes, hopes, ambition
known as the HUMAN BRAIN
Regions of the Brain

33. Brain Plasticity Also called neuroplasticity
The lifelong ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences
Habits = well-traveled neural pathways in our brain
The ability of the brain to change with learning
Focus and build up the pathways we want to strengthen
Neural pathways we ignore (old habits) can die off
Brain Plasticity

34. Your Teenage Brain Now is the best time to hard-wire your brain!
If you “exercise” your brain you can:
Learn to order your thoughts
Understand abstract concepts
Control your brain’s impulses
What you do now will serve you for the rest of your life.
Your Teenage Brain

35. Your Teenage Brain Your brain is developing until you reach your 20s.
You get 2 periods of “overproduction” of the brain’s grey matter:
During your first 18 months
During your teenage years
After this “overproduction” period “unused” neuron connections wither away
Your Teenage Brain

36. Which would you rather practice for? It’s up to you!
You can decide what you want to hard-wire your brain for by focusing on those activities, such as:
Sports
Playing a musical instrument
Math
Public speaking
Or, you focus instead on:
Sitting on the couch and watching TV
Spending hours on Facebook and Instagram
Which would you rather practice for? It’s up to you!