Active Listening
The foundational listening exercise in its many dressings: in pairs, one person speaks about something real while the listener gives full attention — no interrupting, no advisin…
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SEE Change Initiative (Empowered Entrepreneur/Employee Training)
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Personal-agency training programs (Empowered Entrepreneur / Empowered Employee) designed through a gender and socio-cultural lens and locally adapted: participants examine belief systems, set goals across life areas, and learn mental tools for purposeful action — goal setting, communication, systematic planning, active problem solving. Trialed in resource-poor settings (Kenyan energy micro-entrepreneurs: doubled business longevity, near-tripled sales).
publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/international-health/research-and-practice/centers-and-research-groups/research-groups/the-self-empowerment-and-equity-for-change-initiative-see-change — Dr. Anita Shankar & colleagues, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Tools from this source (20)
Addressing & Overcoming Fear
A guided inward exercise on a personal fear. Participants breathe, place their hands over the heart, close their eyes, and identify what they are afraid of — the handbook names…
Being Proactive
A short talk and two sorting exercises on the difference between acting and being acted upon. The handbook defines proactive as taking responsibility for your life, choices and…
Body Dialogue
Movement first — fifteen minutes of dance or active play with music, enough to raise the heart rate — then participants lie down, still breathing hard, and hold a conversation w…
Cognitive Reframing — Negative to Positive
A discussion and practice on shifting attention from what is wrong to what is wanted, framed as a choice available in any moment rather than a personality trait. Concrete techni…
Understanding Our Core Beliefs
A guided group examination of six beliefs the handbook treats as underpinning growth: self-responsibility, self-esteem, trust in a higher purpose, positive attitude, continual g…
EPIC Communication
A four-part structure for a persuasive message — Engage, Problem, Inform, Call to action — taught one step at a time, with participants drafting their own on a topic they choose…
Establishing a Clear Vision
A talk-and-discussion that starts from the claim that everyone already holds visions of their life, including negative ones, and acts on them daily — the handbook's example is a…
Human Knot
The group stands shoulder to shoulder in a circle, everyone reaches in and takes two other hands at random, and the tangle has to be undone without anyone letting go. People can…
Leadership 101
Each participant names a leader they admire and writes three qualities that make them effective, then a leader they dislike and what makes them bad. The lists go up in two colum…
Leadership in Action
Teams of four or five take a series of timed challenges, fifteen minutes each, with a different member leading every round and nobody leading twice until everyone has led once.…
Letting Go
Marked optional in the handbook, and the deepest thing in it. The framing is explicit: many participants have experienced significant pain and sometimes trauma, and carrying it…
Understanding & Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
Builds directly on the Tree of Life: hopes are shaped by what a person believes they can be, and those beliefs come from their roots. The group names the doubting thoughts that…
My Best Qualities
Three questions answered privately — what am I proud of, what was my most courageous act, what do I most value about myself — then one of them spoken around the whole circle. Th…
Myself — My Friend
An opening self-attention exercise for people used to defining themselves by their roles. Participants say the first thing that comes to mind when asked to think about themselve…
Personal Behavior Change (five-step process)
A repeatable five-question process for a behaviour or emotional pattern someone wants to shift: Awareness (what am I actually doing), Meaning (why does changing it matter to me)…
What's My Plan of Action
The closing worksheet of the training, which turns everything before it into something dated. Participants write why they want the work at all, restate or redraw their vision, t…
SMART Goals for a Vision
Participants lie on the floor or sit, picture the vision they chose, and look at what has to change to get there from the present. The gap is then written as SMART goals — speci…
Tree of Life
Participants label a drawn tree as their own life: ROOTS for history and formative experience, TRUNK for life as it is now, FRUITS for what they have accomplished, BUDS for hope…
Vision Webs
Participants map the visions they hold across the different areas of their life onto a web — writing or drawing, listing several per area where they have them — then share and d…
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