Positive Relationships

Home Instructions

1. Brainstorm and list  all the relationships that  a person can be involved in during their lifetime. Pick three important relationships in  your life and assess these relationships by listing the likes and dislikes in these relationships.

 

 

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2.   Produce a list of the characteristics of positive and abusive relationships. ( 4 positive/4 abusive) Identify the signs that accompany each characteristic you list. (ie. a positive characteristic is support and the sign that a relationship is supportive is that problems can be openly discussed.)

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1. Supportive (open discussion of problems)

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 4. Examine the relationships in your life and assess if they fall into the category of positive or abusive. Record this information in journal form.  Try to design a “Perfect Friend.” Draw a  silhouette of a male and female head and write the qualities of a perfect friend around the silhouette. Identify the qualities  that you possess and highlight the qualities that you believe your own best friend possesses.
5.   Identify the perfect qualities of  each type of relationship listed in parenthesis. (parent and child, student and teacher,  student and coach, and employee and employer.) From this work gather three qualities that characterize the best qualities of a relationship. Explain how these qualities could be demonstrated by a Leadership and Peer Support student.
6. Write a reflection paper explaining how you feel power can be used positively or misused in a variety of relationships with family, at work, and/or school with peer contexts and identifying strategies to deal with situations where power is misused (e.g., gang aggression, child abuse, workplace harassment).