Lesson 10. Culture of honesty.
Goals:
- That the students learn about trust, honesty and confidentiality.
- That the students will get experiences with telling the truth about their life in conversation with others.
- The students will be challenged to share the good and bad sides of life with each other. By sharing their experiences with each other do we hope that the students can learn from each other.
The teaching:
1. Trust, honesty and confidentiality.
- When we want to build an culture of sharing and honesty, we also have to build an culture of trust.
- Trust is something that we have to use time to build, but it takes only a second to tear down.
- Trust comes from confidence. If I know that when I say something to a friend he will go an tell others , then I won’t tell him something personal.
But if I know that I can trust Him, then I can also tell him the things that are difficult in my life.
- Honesty is to tell the truth, and the truth shall set us free!
- We want to build an culture where we are honest about our life, our thoughts and our feelings.
- We want to build an culture where we can be honest to our self and honest towards others.
- Honesty includes to be honest about the things in my life that I can handle and it includes also my mistakes.
2. Be wise in what you share.
- In an culture of sharing and honesty do we want people to feel safe enough to share their life.
- In an culture of honesty do we have to be open so people get the opportunity to share, but it can't be a pressure to share
- When we share from our life, and from what god has given us is it important that we share our story. And not other peoples stories that we have heard.
We must talk about our self and our experiences.
3. Learn from each other.
- We live different lives, and we have different experiences.
- When we share our life and our experiences with each other do we have an opportunity to learn something new about God and something new about the people who share from their life
- Maybe can something that you share help someone ells that is going through something similar.
- When we experience difficult things can it help us to see that others have been through the same, and they came through.
- When people share good experiences they have with God can it inspire others to live close to God and to be his disciples.
- Sometimes people share things that is difficult to hear, or maybe we disagree with them in what they say or do. In times like this is it important that we say the truth with love.
- We can let them know what we think in an respectful way. It is important that we dare to say what we mean, but at the same time let the other person own their own opinion.
Practical exercises/challenge to response:
- The students will make a list of how they can create an culture of honesty in the Acta-house.
- The students will practice to say the truth in an loving way through cases that the teacher has made.
Sources:
- Relasjonsbygging. Teleios.