A critical component of the growth and development journey is cultivating connection. These are conversations and activities where team members can arrive as themselves and reflect, share and build relationships with each other.
Mygrow Moments
Fundamentals 1
REFLECTION
What are you hoping for in this journey with Mygrow?
Tip: Have people write these reflections down to reflect on at 6 months.
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Positivity
- Gratitude
- Optimism
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
Three Good Things Mastery Guide
What has the 3 Good Things technique brought up for you?
How is this technique applicable in your life?
DROPLETS
What does “The way you see the problem, is the problem” mean for you?
How can I be more aware of the negative thoughts that naturally pop into my head?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
The Gratitude Game
Tip: Bring donuts to the session to help foster a relaxed, open atmosphere.
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Inviting feedback
- Self-confidence
- Objective self-view
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
Signature Strengths Mastery Guide
How does your team handle feedback, and how can you encourage a team dynamic that embraces feedback?
How is this technique applicable in your life?
DROPLETS
What does the ‘Cream Cheese’ analogy mean for you?
Tip: Bring cheese and biscuits to this session to create a fun vibe.
What insight have you gained from comparing your self-assessment scores with those of your peers?
Tip: Remind the group they only need to share as vulnerably as they are comfortable to.
Note: People should have their peer assessments by now. If they don’t, reach out to support@mygrow.co.za for assistance.
What surprised you about the strengths people observed in you?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
The Johari Window Exercise
Tip: If online, set this activity up in an online whiteboard like Miro and have individuals engage remotely.
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Self-esteem
- Seeing strengths in others
- Trigger reduction
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
Affirming Statements Mastery Guide
How did you experience the elastic band technique?
Tip: Alternatives to the elastic band – blinking, clapping hands etc.
How is the affirming statement technique applicable in your life?
DROPLETS
In what ways do you see some/one of your core values coming through at work?
What did your reflections on learned helplessness uncover?
How do ‘billboard/subtitles’ impact a person’s sense of self?
Share a recent example where you enacted confirmation bias?
Where do you lean towards on the internal or external locus of control and how does this impact your life?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
If you have fallen off the bandwagon, how did/will you get back on?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
The Team Values exercise
Tip: If online, set this activity up in an online whiteboard like Miro and have individuals engage remotely.
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Emotional control
- Negative thought containment
- Self-management
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
What has your experience of disputing irrational beliefs been like?
Tip: Explain/remind the group what irrational beliefs are
What positive effects have you experienced by using the statement. “Isn’t it wonderful that…”?
Which type of disputing (evidence, logical, positive, practical) have you enjoyed most, and why?
Revisit Droplet 14 | Droplet 15
Tip: Consider giving an example of each of these at the start of the session.
Note: Watch the droplet videos together to remind the team what the different types are.
DROPLETS
Share your thoughts on the quote: “Be careful how you talk to yourself, because you are listening”.
Have you noticed a pattern of what triggers you at work? Has the technique helped?
In what ways do you think Emotional Expression impacts communication, relationships and effectiveness at work?
Why do you think assertiveness can be a difficult skill to develop?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
Having completed 3 modules, what changes have you noticed in yourself?
Tip: What is something you would say/share with yourself when starting this journey? Something positive, comforting/reassuring, given all that you’ve learned and become since then?
Note: In what ways do you think Emotional Expression impacts communication, relationships and effectiveness at work?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Take an activating event from work and dispute it as a team, using the ABCDE technique.
ABCDE Technique PDF
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Motivating others
- Affirming others
- Seeing the best in others
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
Giving Praise Technique Mastery Guide
What has your experience of purposefully giving praise been?
What challenges did you experience with the Giving Praise technique?
DROPLETS
What makes relationships a primary need? What role does it play in your workplace?
Tip: Remind people of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how love and relationships were the first layer of the psychological needs.
Which ego state (Parent, Adult and Child) did you resonate with most? Why?
How could the ‘I’m okay, you’re okay’ adult state (interdependence) play out at work?
How might you contribute to cultivating empathy in your team?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
Having completed 4 modules, what changes have you noticed in yourself?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Team Encouragement Exercise
Team Encouragement Exercise PDF
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Reality testing
- Impulse control
- Functional alternatives
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
Decision Making Technique Mastery Guide
What has your experience with the Decision Making technique been?
In what ways has generating alternatives impacted your decision-making?
DROPLETS
How do you think our emotions and emotional intelligence impact our decision-making?
How do you deal with the struggle between what you ‘want to do’ and what you ‘should do’?
What are your thoughts on the learning that “positive emotion helps decision-making”?
How would better impulse control change your life?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Share a decision you have recently made and how working through it with the technique helped you.
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Managing physiology
- Heart coherence
- Generating positive emotion
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
What has your experience of the Heart Coherence technique been like?
Describe a recent experience where you used the Heart Coherence technique and what the outcome was.
DROPLETS
How effectively do you feel that your team is able to cope with stress? What do you think causes this?
What are your thoughts on the distinction between “good” stress and “bad” stress?
What are examples of adaptive coping mechanisms that you or your team use?
How has your understanding of stress shifted in this module?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Do the Box Breathing technique as a team.
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Fundamentals 2
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Reflecting on development
- Objective self-evaluation
- Growing the open area
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
What has your experience of the reflection technique been?
How are you making use of the Technique studio?
Technique Studio
DROPLETS
Why do you think self-awareness is important?
How has your ‘Open Area’ grown over your time on Mygrow?
Does your team have any ‘cream cheese’ that you need to talk about?
What has stood out for you now, which you may have missed in the previous modules?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
Looking back on your Mygrow journey, which has been your favourite technique so far and why?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Do your own Self-Awareness Journal Prompts
Journal Prompts PDF
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Self-compassion
- Self-acceptance
- Contentment
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
What has your experience of the self-compassion technique been like?
What would your life be like if you spoke to yourself like you speak to those you value the most?
DROPLETS
What can you resonate with in the story about the Sneetches?
Discuss this statement: “A healthy self-regard can never be based on comparison.”
In which areas of your life does comparison tend to show up?
How could you foster compassion in the context of your team?
What is one step you can take to improve your self-regard?
What has been your biggest learning in the self-regard module?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Appreciation Circle
Appreciation Circle PDF
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Emotional Vocabulary
- Emotional Awareness
- Emotional Regulation
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
Emotional Language Mastery Guide
What has your experience of the Emotional Language technique been like?
DROPLETS
Discuss the statement: “When we learn new words for emotion, new feelings are sure to follow”
What is one thing you could do today to experience Enjoyment?
What has been most interesting to you in the Emotional Language module so far?
Share a recent moment where you felt Anger, Disgust, Fear, Sadness or Enjoyment and why you think you felt this way.
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Atlas of Emotions Exercise
Atlas of Emotion Exercise PDF
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Assertive Communication
- Effective Confrontation
- Boundary setting from assertive rights
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
Share your experience of the DEARMAN technique.
What makes assertiveness difficult for you?
DROPLETS
Why do you think healthy assertiveness at work is important and how could you encourage your team to be more assertive?
When does passivity, passive-aggression or aggression show up for you?
What does the metaphor ‘Play the ball, not the man’ mean to you?
What could you do to grow in the area of assertiveness?
Share which assertive right resonates most with you and explain why.
- You have the right to judge your own behaviour, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the
- responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.
- You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justifying your behaviour.
- You have the right to judge if you are responsible for finding solutions to other people’s problems.
- You have the right to change your mind.
- You have the right to make mistakes – and be responsible for them.
- You have the right to say, ‘I don’t know’.
- You have the right to choose to accept or not accept “help”.
- You have the right to be illogical in making decisions.
- You have the right to say, ‘I don’t understand’.
- You have the right to say, ‘I don’t care’.
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Assertive Rights Exercise
Assertive Rights Exercise PDF
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Avoiding the Drama Triangle
- Boundary Setting
- Vulnerability
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
Describe how your experience of the Gratitude Letter technique is going.
Share with the group how your Gratitude Visits have been.
DROPLETS
How does liking each other help you collaborate better?
What stands out to you most about the Drama Triangle model?
Which role are you hoping to grow towards – Creator, Coach or Challenger, and why?
What is one practical step you could take as a team to improve your interpersonal relationships with each other?
How has your view of vulnerability in relationships changed/been impacted in this module?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Team Gratitude Letter
Team Gratitude Letter PDF
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Positive Problem Orientation
- Functional Problem-Solving Style
- Emotional Signpost Awareness
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
What has your experience of the Problem Solving technique been like?
Share with the group which ‘Positive Orientation Statement’ you chose in your technique and why.
Positive Orientation Statements
DROPLETS
How would you describe the problem-solving skills in your team? How could these be improved?
Discuss how you could practice having a positive problem orientation at work.
Do you tend to be more planful, impulsive, or avoidant in solving problems and how does this impact your work?
How does our emotional state affect our ability to solve problems?
How has your understanding of problem solving shifted over the course of the module?
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Problem Solving Myths Exercise
Problem Solving Myths Exercise PDF
REFLECTION
Which key skill did you grow in the most?
- Acceptance and Commitment
- Values Aligned Living
- Mindfulness
How can you use this key skill to benefit your team?
TECHNIQUE
How to Win at Psychological Flexibility
Describe your experience of the Flexibility technique.
DROPLETS
Share what the Flexibility Bus metaphor has meant to you.
How does it feel to complete the second course of Mygrow, F201? Share some highlights.
OPEN QUESTION
What are you enjoying the most about your Mygrow journey?
What are you finding the most challenging in your Mygrow journey?
TEAM CHECK-IN
Which of these pictures best represents how you are currently feeling?
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ACTIVITY
Problem Solving and Flexibility Key Skills Exercise
Problem Solving and Flexibility Key Skills Exercise PDF
Need some Droplet encouragement?
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Print this and put it in high-traffic areas like the break room as a reminder for your team.
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