Flexible activity
This activity aims to teach young people about healthy relationships including boundaries, identifying other people’s needs, self-efficacy in communication, and meaningful interactions. This can include learning about healthy boundaries and maintaining time for yourself, practicing emotional responsiveness via active listening, and developing self-efficacy and confidence in your capacity to speak your mind in a respectful way.
Establishing and maintaining relationships is a critical skill for young people to develop and practice with prosocial peers, family members and community.
Activities geared towards establishing and maintaining relationships are best practiced in-person, however didactic content canvassing topics such as healthy boundaries and maintaining time for yourself can be delivered remotely. Program facilitators can guide participants through various aspects of effective communication including active listening, non-verbal cues, and stress and emotion management. Participants can then practice their learned skills via roleplaying or scenario-based learning, peer learning or via games and interactive activities.
This flexible activity has been implemented with a number of different target groups. Key characteristics include:
If online or video interventions are going to be implemented, service providers and participants will require access to devices and/or software to view and engage with the content.
24 Nov 2022
We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Nations Peoples of NSW and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
Informed by lessons of the past, Department of Communities and Justice is improving how we work with Aboriginal people and communities. We listen and learn from the knowledge, strength and resilience of Stolen Generations Survivors, Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal communities.
You can access our apology to the Stolen Generations.