How Hope and Making Plans Can Be Beneficial
In our VCC today, we continued from the theme of last week, Finding Opportunity in the Challenges, which addressed how the future seems like a luxury for many of us right now. Moving through challenges is even harder when we don’t have adequate questions or ideas on how to plan for what’s ahead.
Today- we started talking about this question that’s been floating around social media, news sites and conversations- Who do you want to be during COVID-19? This is a graphic that has been accompanying this question is below.
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This is not a linear process- Covid19 is not finite. We will be changed, as a society, a world, from this pandemic. With that being said, the question of Who Do I Want to Be During COVID19? seems overwhelming and not quite enough.
So we dove together into how we can restoratively ask ourselves and our communities questions that helps navigate through some of the murkiness that is the future. We shared a Prezi presentation, which you can access by clicking this link. We also have the Prezi represented in the graphics below:
In our breakout rooms, we asked these circle questions:
Talk about a time when you made a plan, dream or imagining and things did not happen according to your plan.
Talk about a time when you made a plan, dream or imagining and things went well.
Talk about what questions you ask of yourself or of others during times of planning, dreaming and imagining?
Talk about a plan, dream or imagine you have for your day, week and month.
We had some wonderful questions that came up as ways to restoratively question and help ourselves plan! Read some of the responses below, and be sure to let us know if you’ve got some good questions to ask!
Is it inclusive? Who can and can’t access it?
What needs are not being met and how will I start addressing them in my plan, dream or imagining?
Who needs to be involved?
Who does this benefit?
What are the struggles? The obstacles? Who has done this before that I can ask about the struggles/obstacles?
What is your why?
What are your motivations? Is your motivation positive? Negative? External? Internal?
What are your resiliency techniques?
What is the short, medium and long term context?