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Description

This activity puts into action the Five Ways to Wellbeing
and helps the Scouts to relate it to their own lives

Resources

Arts and crafts materials for Scouts to decorate and personalise their High Five hands

Instructions

Introduce the Five Ways to Wellbeing,
1. Connect. Talking to people, friends and family, spending time with them.
2. Be Active. Doing a sport or being physical generally.
3. Take Notice. What do you do to relax and enjoy what you’re doing at the
moment, when you might be stressed about something else?
4. Learn. Learning, either in a traditional (education) or non-traditional sense.
5. Give. How have you given your time others recently?
(further details can be found here: http://www.mind.org.uk/for-business/
mental-health-at-work/taking-care-of-yourself/five-ways-to-wellbeing).

Once the young people understand the idea, give each young person a sheet of paper and ask them to draw
around their own hands. Starting at the thumb of the hand they drew, ask them to write on the fingers how they connect, be active etc.

Once done, and time can be allowed for personalisation and decoration,
ask them to turn to the person next to them and share their High Five.

Bring the group back together and discuss:
- Were any of the five ways more difficult than others to think of in their lives?
- How did it feel talking to someone else about what they did?
- What are they going to do now – who are they going to talk to?
- How are they going to keep doing this week to week?

Explain that this is mental health and they can affect their mental health
both positively and negatively through their actions.
n If the young people are happy to, High Fives can be displayed to show the
range of activities the Scouts take part in.

Adaptations
Language should be adapted where appropriate for each of the five ways.
Younger children in particular may struggle to think about how they Take Notice .

The activity can be expanded to encourage the young people to do a group
High Five (Post it notes on a flip chart) that demonstrates how Scouting
links with the Five Ways, what they might suggest for a fellow Scout to do
if they are feeling down or just to show the range of things they do in their
lives that relate to the Five Ways.

Tags

• high Five
• mental health awareness

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