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PHASE VI:Everyone Has a Story

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Everyone Has a Story

To help HOPE Squad members understand that everyone has struggles at different times in their life.

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• Understand that everyone deals with stress and or anxiety.

• Understand the importance of listening and caring when a fellow student may struggle, regardless of their status in school.

• Understand the importance of “listening to their story.”


Objectives

“Before you judge my life, my past or my character -

walk in my shoes. Walk the path I have travelled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fear, my pain and my laughter.

Remember: everyone has a story. When you’ve lived my life, only then can you judge me!”


Author Unknown


Adapted from photo by Gabriela Pinto on Flickr


Photo by Kellie Bollaert on Flickr

When you look at a person – any person – remember that

everyone has a story.

Everyone has gone throughsomething that has

changed them.



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Did You Know?The following well known people have all struggled with serious depression:• Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States

• Many famous authors, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway and J.K. Rowling

• Dozens of well-known actors and talk-show hosts, including Audrey Hepburn, Harrison Ford, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robin Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Ellen Degeneres, and Oprah Winfrey


Did You Know?The following well known people have all struggled with bipolar disorder:• Winston Churchill, prime minister of the UK during

World War II• Many famous writers, including Edgar Allen Poe,

Virginia Woolf, and Jack London• Actress/musician Demi Lovato and actress Catherine

Zeta-Jones• Mel Gibson, American actor, film director, producer

and screenwriter


Did You Know?

The following well known people have all struggled with anxiety disorders:• Musicians John Mayer, Adele, and Carrie Underwood

• Many well-known actors, such as Emma Stone, Johnny Depp, Jessica Alba, and Whoopi Goldberg

• American author and YouTube video blogger (vlogbrothers and Mental Floss) John Green



Photo by Tim Hettler on Flickr

What’s Your Story?• Find a fellow student to pair up with.

• Student A will share their life story for 2 minutes.

• Student B will only listen with full intent and not ask questions, interrupt or respond in any way until the 2 minutes are up.

• Student B will then share their story and student A will listen.


Why this activity?

• Opportunity to practice listening

• Learn new things about a friend

• Understand that everyone has a story


Discussion & Questions


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