Ethics and Values Clarification Training
CARLTON: Introduction about the training, the three parts, etc. (5-10 minutes)
Workshop A
Approximately 30 minutes
Have the group stand in one long line at the center of the room. Ask each of the following questions and have the participants move either to the left or right side of the room depending on their response. Depending on the weight of the responses, give them a couple of minutes to discuss their choices with each other… quickly. Then have them return to the center of the room at the sound of the bell.
The first response is always to the LEFT and the second to the RIGHT.
Questions
1) Do you prefer HOTDOGS or HAMBURGERS?
2) Would you prefer to have your first child be a BOY or a GIRL?
3) Do you prefer COCA COLA or PEPSI?
4) Given the choice, would you rather be born BLIND or DEAF?
5) Would you be willing to pose completely nude in a high class art magazine? YES or NO
6) Do you consider yourself a LEADER or a FOLLOWER?
7) Would you prefer to die in a PLANE CRASH or by SLOWLY SINKING IN A SHIP?
8) Which is more disgusting, SPITTING or CURSING?
9) Would you rather be one foot TALLER or one foot SHORTER?
10) Which have easier lives, MEN or WOMEN?
11) If you found out your best friend was gay, would you stay friends with him or her? YES or NO
12) Would you commit a crime to provide food or shelter for your family? YES or NO
13) Do you know how old you were when you first began to talk? YES or NO
14) Do you SPEAK UP against injustice or REMAIN QUIET?
15) Do you think human beings as basically GOOD or basically EVIL?
16) Do you believe in the death penalty? YES or NO
17) Have you ever done something that hurt someone else that you regret? YES or NO
18) Is it possible to truly forgive someone? YES or NO
19) Do you prefer your peanut butter CRUNCHY or SMOOTH?
20) Would you rather be a famous ARTIST or a famous POLITICAL LEADER?
21) How many times are you lied to in an average day? 0-5 TIMES or 6-10 TIMES
22) Would you rather live to be 100 or 1000?
23) Would you rather have a 2-FOOT LONG IRREMOVABLE NOSE or the word PORK TATTOOED ON YOUR FOREHEAD?
24) Which is more important LOVE or MONEY?
25) Would you rather be raised by two FATHERS or two MOTHERS?
26) Do you prefer HORROR movies or COMEDIES?
27) Would you rather marry someone OLDER or YOUNGER than you?
28) Would you rather have a child who LOOKED PERFECT but was severely mentally ill or a child who was BRILLIANT but had extreme physical disabilities?
29) Do you believe that your happiest times have ALREADY HAPPENED or will HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE?
30) Do you prefer a KISS ON THE CHEEK or a FRENCH KISS?
Workshop B (CARLTON)
Approximately 1 hour
Break the students into five groups (5 or 6 in each group). The groups will be divided by color and should form a circle on the floor. In the center of the circle, the facilitator will place a set of questions cards face down.
One at a time, each participant will pull a card from the pile and read the question aloud. Each member of that circle will have the chance to answer the question.
Participants should be told that they should each take no more than 2 minutes to respond to each question. Be sure to HEAR the other students… don’t just prepare your own answer. Once everyone has answered the first questions, the next person in the circle should pull a second question and so on.
Workshop C (BOBBI)
Approximately 1 hour
Written component. Pass out four slips of paper (by color) to each member in each group. The facilitator will read the following four questions and each participant should write a sentence or a phrase in reaction to each questions. Members will each have four sentences or phrases at the end of the exercise.
1. Describe how it feels to have to make difficult choices.
2. What one thing have you learned about yourself?
3. Choose five words that remain in your mind from tonight’s conversations.
4. If you were given the chance to write your own question for this exercise, what would it be?
One participant should be chosen as the recorder The groups should come together and give their slips to the recorder who will then shuffle them, mix them and put them face down on the floor. Randomly, participants will pull the sentences and lay them out on the newsprint in order.
Talk about the concept of “found poetry”…… all around us. Our poetry is what we see, how we feel, how we react, how we dream…..
Now that you see these 20 sentences as a poem, take 10 minutes as a group and make decisions about how to rearrange the lines in the poem. The final poem should be taped to the newsprint. When finished members should write their names on the bottom of the newsprint. And let the facilitator know when they are finished.
Have each of the five groups chose a reader. That recorder will hold the newsprint and the reader will then read the group’s “poem” out loud to the larger group.
Thank the participants.
Conclusion
Approximately 15 minutes
1. Have you ever done anything like these exercises before?
2. How do you feel differently now than when we began the exercises?
3. What is the value of doing these types of exercises?
FEEDBACK / CRITIQUE
MATERIALS
Workshop A
Question sheet
Happy Apple
Workshop B
Question Color Cards
Happy Apple
Workshop C
Colored slips of paper
Tape
Two sheets of newsprint for each group
Masking tape
Ethics Cards:
If you could wake up tomorrow having gained one ability or quality, what would it be?
For an all-expense-paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off its wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?
What is your most treasured memory?
What is the greatest accomplishment of your life? Is there anything you hope to do that is even better?
What was your best experience with drugs or alcohol? Your worst experience?
If you could choose the manner of your death, what would it be?
If you found that a good friend had AIDS, would you avoid him? What if your brother or sister had it?
You and a person you love deeply are placed in separate rooms with a button next to each of you. You know that you will both be killed unless one of you presses your button before 60 minutes pass; furthermore, the first to press the button will save the other person, but will immediately be killed. What do you think you would do?
Do you feel that advice from older people carries a special weight because of their greater experience? Give an example.
When has your life dramatically changed as the result of some seemingly random external influence? How much do you feel in control of the course of your life?
If you could have free unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, chauffeur, housekeeper, masseuse, or personal secretary, which would you choose?
After a medical examination, your doctor calls and gravely says you have a rare lymphatic cancer and only a few months to live. Five days later, she informs you that the lab tests were mislabeled; you are perfectly healthy. Forced for a moment to look death in the face, you have been allowed to turn and go on. During those difficult days you would certainly have gained some insights about yourself. Do you think they would be worth the pain?
How do you picture your funeral? Is it important for you to have people mourn your death?
An eccentric millionaire offers to donate a large sum to charity if you will step – completely naked – from a car onto a busy downtown street, walk four blocks, and climb back into the car. Knowing that there would be no danger of physical abuse, would you do it?
Given the ability to project yourself into the past but not return, would you do so? Where would you go and what would you try to accomplish if you knew you might change the course of history?
If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think you’d find leading a more satisfying life than yours?
If you began to be very attracted to someone of another ethnicity, how would your behavior differ from what it would be toward someone of your own ethnicity?
When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?
What do you value most in a relationship?
What sorts of things would you do if you could be as outgoing and uninhibited as you wished? Do you usually initiate friendships or wait to be approached?
Of all the people close to you, whose death would you find most disturbing?
Relative to the population at large, how do you rate your physical attractiveness? Your intelligence? Your personality?
What would you like to be doing five years from now? What do you think you will be doing five years from now?
If a crystal ball would tell you the truth about any one thing you wished to know concerning yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?
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