Trainers’ Toolkit – What is my body telling me?

	Exercise nr 30:  What is my body telling me?
Duration	15-20 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	The aim of the exercise is to help participants get in contact with their bodies and bring a new perspective, another point of view on how they feel and what they need.
Group size	2-100+
Hashtags	#methafor #body
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	POINTS OF YOU® – The Digital Experience  https://www.points-of-you.com/play/intro
Exercise agenda	This exercise uses a metaphoric card app with a 3-card process to help participants to get in contact with their bodies. The app brings a new perspective, another point of view on how they feel and what they need. Points of you is a thought-provoking metaphoric coaching game that has various applications. From the authors of the game: “A cornerstone of the Points of You® method is the interaction between the right brain, the intuitive and emotional half of the brain, and the left brain, focused on logic and analysis. This occurs when we look at a photograph and a word simultaneously. The photograph stimulates our right, creative brain while the word activates the left, analytical brain. The simultaneous stimulation of the two brain hemispheres creates a struggle between the emotional and the rational, momentarily “shorting out” the vigilant defense mechanisms of our mind. This “deliberate confusion” gives the mind a short respite from our preconceived ideas on how things “should” or “ought” to be, and allows our mind to open up to new places inside ourselves, shifting our point of view.” Share your screen with an open app: https://www.points-of-you.com/play/welcome. Click on the game and choose the resilience dot. Choose the answer “What is my body telling me?”. Click on the first board “1. What is working for me?” Choose a dot and show the options: choose a card, read about or change card. After selecting a picture as an example, go to the second board “2. What is not working for me?” and “3. What is my next step?”. After choosing all three cards, take a print screen to save your images. Tell participants they can keep their boards once they register. Tell participants that they will have 8 minutes to complete their boards. Then they will be sent for another 6 minutes to 3-person rooms to share their reflections. Now ask participants to open the website POINTS OF YOU® – The Digital Experience and go to the resilience dot and then create their boards relating to the subject of their bodies. After all, participants came back from their breaking rooms ask them to write in the chatbox one word describing their state of the body at the moment.
Possible modifications	You can use other topics of the Points of you game, e.g. “My energy level” under Resilience or “What do I really enjoy doing?” under the Fulfilment category.
Credits	Compiled by Fundacja Culture Shock for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0Co-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union