Activity 2.2.10 Discovering Preferences for Work and Life

Purpose

To find similarities between work preferences and life preferences

Materials

Handout–Interests and Strengths Worksheet

Time

3 hrs

Method

1. Ask participants to describe and talk about their previous or present employment and their work preferences. A work preference could be “to work on my own”. Facilitators will make a note of the stated work preference on a flipchart or blackboard.
2. Next, ask for words and sentences related to work skills that are used in their employment, and record these to the right of the work preferences list.
3. Ask participants to discuss their life preferences and note these to the left of the work preferences list. (Life preference words could be independence, freedom, etc.)
4. Leave these lists of words on flipchart paper or a blackboard.
5. Have participants fill out the Interests and Strengths Worksheet. Note: the bottom chart (Work skills I already have) on the worksheet can be done as a whole class discussion to help individuals gain a clearer perspective before they fill it out.
6. As a class discussion, or in small groups, have participants talk about the similarities they can see between their life preferences, interests, strengths, personality traits, and work skills.