ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY

Loyola Schools Office of Guidance and Counseling

Academic Year 2014-2015
COURAGE QUEST
(A Social Skills Training Program)

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the social skills training program, the
student will be able to:
Recognize their personal social development needs
Understand the significance of developing ones social skills
Apply specific learning and social skills in relation to their specific
needs and areas for improvement
Participate and express their thoughts and feelings through
constructive feedback
General Description of the Small Group Follow-Up Session:
The two weekly follow-up sessions will allow the participants to apply their learning
from the plenary session in a more individualized and personalized manner. Each
session follows a semi-structured approach that gives room for an exchange of
helpful practices, role-playing, and feedback. Application of learning and practice of
skills will be given as homework to test how it works in each participants milieu.
FOLLOW UP SESSION 2 : CELEBRATING MY COURAGE
Objectives: At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
To share about the experience of carrying out a personal promise
To gain more courage to interact more positively with others
To practice giving and receiving support from others
Total duration: 1.5 hours
Time Limit

KAMUSTAH
AN

PRACTICE
FEEDBACK

Activity /Procedure
Each of the participants will share about the Courage Quest
experience for the week. The following questions may be asked
during the sharing:
o What happened during the Courage Quest?
o What made it easy to try the social skills you learned from your
peers in your natural environment? What made it difficult for you?
o How did the target of your action react?
In case a participant was not able to go through their Courage Quest:
o Ask the participant to share their worksheet The Movie In My Mind
o What happened during the past week?
o How do you think the target of your action would react?

After each participant has shared, allow co-participants to give their

feedback about any or all of the following:
o The impact of the presentors EXPRESSIVE skills (words used, body
gestures and voice intonation) while sharing
o The effectiveness of the actions and words used in relation to the
target social skills

Other tips or suggestions for the enhancement of the desired social

skills

A standard statement for feedback which can be used for this exercise is
as follows:
What I like most about what you shared (or how you shared your Courage Quest
experience) is ________________. It would be even better if you can __________
and ____________ the next time.
Each participant is allowed to respond to the feedback given by his peers,
either through a gesture or through words of gratitude.
PROCESS
QUESTION
S

What were the results and effects of this experience on you?

What are the probable changes that you can still make?
MY LEAF OF HOPE FOR YOU
1. Distribute the worksheet My Leaf Of Hope For You to the
participants. Tell the participants to write their name on the trunk
of the tree.
2. Give this introduction: A tree is a powerful symbol for personal
growth, strength, power, purpose and change. As we close our
social skills training session, let us express our appreciation for
each of our co-participants. We shall do this by writing :
a. On the trunk of the tree - what we see as a strength in each
participant
b. On a leaf - our hopes and wishes for each participant

CLOSING
ACTIVITY

3. Allow the students a minute to write for each co-participant. Give

the signal to start and stop writing. Instruct the students to pass
the paper they are holding to the person to their right each time the
signal to stop is given.
4.

The activity ends when all the sheets come full circle and the
participants receive their own paper.

5. Let the students take the time to read their paper and approach
their co-participants to express their gratitude or response to the
given write-up.
The session ends with one of the following inspirational videos :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueg6wWLmy4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6A_RImC-yg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-HBl2TVtI
EVALUATIO
N

Remind the students to TAKE the Social Skills Post-test and to

ACCOMPLISH the Evaluation through the link posted on their
respective formators FB page.

MY LEAF OF HOPE FOR YOU