Z e st
A Program to add spice and interest to your life
Ruah Community Services
GPO Box 2828 West Perth
PH: 9485 3939
Email: [email protected]
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Contents
How to Use This Workbook ............................................................................................................ 3
The Present ..................................................................................................................................... 4
My Current Circle ........................................................................................................................ 5
Where are you now? ................................................................................................................... 6
My Past Circles ............................................................................................................................ 7
My Future Circle .......................................................................................................................... 8
Discovery Tours ............................................................................................................................... 9
List of 20 .................................................................................................................................... 10
Memories .................................................................................................................................. 11
Imaginary lives ........................................................................................................................... 14
People you admire .................................................................................................................... 15
Buried Dreams ........................................................................................................................... 16
If I did not have to do it perfectly I would try ........................................................................... 17
Favourite things ......................................................................................................................... 18
What I enjoy checklist ............................................................................................................... 19
Favourite Skills ........................................................................................................................... 23
Sensual Awareness Inventory ................................................................................................... 24
Inspiration Collage ..................................................................................................................... 25
My Zest discoveries ................................................................................................................... 27
My Current Circle ...................................................................................................................... 31
Friendship...................................................................................................................................... 32
The Party ................................................................................................................................... 33
What I want in a friend…….. ...................................................................................................... 34
Ideal Friend - Female ................................................................................................................. 35
Ideal Friend- Male ..................................................................................................................... 36
Position Available- Friendship ................................................................................................... 37
Friendship in Bloom................................................................................................................... 38
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Growing New Friendships ......................................................................................................... 40
Snakes and Ladders- A game about friendship ......................................................................... 41
My Current Circle ...................................................................................................................... 44
Friendship Skills ............................................................................................................................. 45
Stages of a Friendship ............................................................................................................... 46
5 Stages of Friendship ............................................................................................................ 46
Boundaries................................................................................................................................. 47
Speaking with others with confidence: ..................................................................................... 49
Assertiveness ............................................................................................................................. 54
Friends don’t always agree........................................................................................................ 57
Dealing with difficult behaviour ............................................................................................ 57
Handling criticism .................................................................................................................. 58
Empathy is crucial to friendship ............................................................................................ 59
Clear communication ............................................................................................................. 59
Working for a win-win situation ............................................................................................ 59
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How to Use This Workbook
This workbook is made up of a series of activities to help you increase your zest, interest and
spice for life. There are three sections to this workbook; the first being where you are now. The
second section is a series of discovery tours. When we are in a difficult place in our lives it can
be hard to find what we enjoy doing. These activities are to help prompt you to discover and
rediscover what you enjoy doing and what you may like to try.
The last section is about friendship. Research shows that having people around us to have fun
with, talk to, do things with and confide in helps us to feel better, enjoy life more, improve our
mental health and live longer. The friendship section helps us to explore what friendship
means to us and how to develop the friendships we want in our lives.
The best way to get the most out of this workbook is to work with someone else and to explore
what you discover and how you can incorporate it into your life.
But most importantly, enjoy!
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