Sunday, December 6, 2015

Music and Empathy in Jakarta, workshop 1

Workshop n.1

Tuesday, December 1st, 2-4 pm


A NEW WORD: EMPATHY


Participants:

11 Kids of Kdm.


Trainers:

Sara and Sotar, Mette, Mia, Mara, Roy


Goal:

To improve the understanding of empathy and foster authenticity 


Main message:

Empathy is the capacity to place oneself in another's position, the ability to feel and share another person’s emotions.


Objectives:

- Improve and develop vocabulary on emotions

- to learn what empathy is


 Tools that we will need:


- a bunny/bear easy to hold and soft to throw (Sotar)

- a guitar (Sotar )

- seven sheets, each with the name of an emotion on it (happy, sad, angry, calm, anxious, worried, enthusiastic) (Mara)

- banner of emotions (to be hanged at the end of the session) (Sotar)

- banner of golden rules. (To be hanged at the beginning) (Sotar)

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Activities:


- Song: The little green frog

(Team building activity)

(5 min)


- Greetings, introduction of Trainers and workshops

(10 min)


- Dance: 

(To enhance authenticity)

Dance freely on the different music that Sara will play (panjang umurnya, adagio from Vivaldi's winter, jakarta fantasy, tarantella).

Ask which music they prefered to dance, and what emotion they felt while dancing.

(10 min)


- How do you feel today game

(To share how each participant feels)

Show on the bunny/bear how do you feel now. The others have to guess.

5 min


- Rhythmic circle (led by Sara only)

(To have fun and improve concentration)

(5 min)


- Active listening game

(To improve empathy)

Make pairs, one in front of the other, one talks about something that is important for her/hem, and the other has to listen very carefully.

Then exchange the roles.

Share their feelings in the group.

Sotar asks if they felt empathy. 

(Empathy is the capacity to place oneself in another's position, the ability to feel and share another person’s emotions.)

(30 min).


     - break - (15-20 min)


- Mirror game 

(To improve empathic observation)

With violin soft music, in pairs, move, one in front of the other, like in a mirror.

Then, exchange roles.

Exchange the feelings.

(20 min)


- sit in a circle and discuss about empathy: Sotar will ask if they know this word and collect what they know about it.


Then they will talk about the lyrics of The little green frog: is it empathetic to become all upset when one person is behaving naughty?

what do the frogs do later on?

What do you do when the mood around is tense and difficult?


(On empathy)

(20 min)


- game: sara plays a music and each of the kids and trainers run to the emotion they feel

(To develop authenticity and self awareness, and check their mood)

(5 min)


- Musica musica song

(Final song)

(2 min)



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