Discover the big idea

1. CHALLENGES

2. BIG IDEA:
Facing up to, or overcoming, problems and
barriers increases possibilities in our lives.
• Reflect on what challenges or problems
you´ve faced in your life
• Volunteers mention briefly examples from
your lives (participation points)

3. Challenges In Our Lives
• What was the challenge?
• Did you face up to or run away from the
challenge? Why?
• What was the outcome?
• If you were to encounter the same challenge
in the future, would you act the same or
differently? Why?

4. 3 STEP PROCESS
• What are three steps you could take in order
to deal with problems?
• In pairs, take a few minutes and try to come
up with a 3 step process.
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.

5. 3 STEP PROCESS
• Identify problems and barriers in our lives that
prevent us from reaching our full potential.
• Deal with the problems that stand in our way.
• Remove these problems and barriers from our
lives.
Solve these problems and increase the possibilities
in your life. Open yourself to new opportunities.

6. Partner Work
• What does it mean to ‘face up to’ a problem?
• In what ways might a person face up to a problem?
(Talking it over with a friend, writing in a diary/journal,
etc.)
• What would the opposite situation be like - to not face
up to the problem?
• In what ways might a person overcome a problem?
• Can you think of ways that ‘overcoming’ a problem
may be achieved and give some examples?
• How might/does it feel to overcome a problem?

7. Partner Work Continued
• Can you share an example of a time when you overcame a
problem and explain what you did and how it felt?
• What might it mean to ‘increase possibilities in our lives’?
• Thinking generally, can you think of an example of a time
when overcoming a problem may have increased the
possibilities in someone’s life?
• More personally, can you think of and share a time when a
possibility in your life was increased due to overcoming a
problem? If not, can you think of a way that this may
happen in the future for you? (Going to college / university,
graduating, etc.)

8. Individual Exercise
Did I face up to it? How? Did I overcome it? How? Did it increase my
possibilities? How?
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Think of five other situations or challenges you have experienced.
Draw a table like the one above and complete it.

9. SHARE YOUR TABLE WITH A PARTNER
• What have you learned about the big idea?
• How could each situation be different?
• When you have new problems or challenges in
your life, how will you respond?
Volunteers share answers for participation
points.