Find Your Secret Giant

Expected outcome

To get a sense of our own “Secret Giants”: our hidden potential
To learn to look at others and see their potential as well
To learn to speak to one another honestly and openly about what we see

Duration

30 to 45 minutes

Materials

Chairs or pillows (comfortable places to sit), pen or pencil and journal or notebook for writing it down afterwards and flip chart paper.

Origin of Tool

Creative Commons - ySI4R Content Team (Adapted from an activity by Clinton Callahan, founder of Possibility Management)

Website

For additional information
https://bridgedale360.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=205

Abstract

We all have a great potential to step into our full power and become the women and men that we imagine we can be. Each of us has a “Secret Giant” inside, just waiting to step out and be huge, to fulfill our greatest dreams. But most of us don’t know this giant, as its covered by fear, doubt, and our own feeling of normalcy. Only other people can see the giant fully, waiting inside us. It is possible to tell other people what their Giant is, so we can start to get a feel for it, and let it begin to emerge.

Content

Invite participants to form groups of three.
Each person takes it in turns to be the ‘receiver’ while the other two participants tell them what they perceive their ‘secret giant’ to be.
The secret giant represents untapped potential. Maybe they are a true leader, creative or deeply intuitive, they may feel they have the ability to be more assertive and confident. [Allow 7 minutes per turn].
After each turn, the receiver should write down what they heard.

Wrap up

Once all the participants have had their turn and written down their ‘secret giant’, invite the whole group to come together to share what they wrote down AND share based on the reflective questions below, recording key words or themes down on a flip chart so everyone can see.

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