which is a photograph of a bird cut out from a magazine. The giver of the gift explains what it means: „We admired you for your courage when trying to rescue the bird, but we wish you wouldn’t go it alone so much, and had asked us to help too. (This is your hand helping the bird. This is our helping hand which you didn’t ask for in time.) We admired you for staying calm (the blue) when you were rescuing.” VARIATIONS
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Making three dimensional gifts (e.g. robots, pets, toys, hats) gives greater scope, but is more time-consuming. Finding gifts: define an area within which gifts can be found (inside, outside or both) and ask pairs to find one gift for each other person in the group. Explain that the gift should represent two positive messages and one critical message. Here is an example: „This fir cone is for you because you’d just lie around doing nothing if we didn’t make you join in. All the bits sticking out show the talents you’ve got but don’t use enough - like problem-solving (finding the easiest way of doing things), singing, mimicking other people. And there are bugs crawling around inside because you’re friendly to everyone: people always come to you if they need someone to talk to.” COMMENTS & SUGGESTIONS
Inspired by Reviewing Skills Training by Roger Greenaway.
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