IMAGINING INTO THE FUTURE:
COLLAGE, GOAL SETTING, AND CONTRACTING
ACTIVITIES

Search for Place Collage Lesson: Now and Future
In the first part of this lesson, learners are asked to use their imaginations to relate the theme of physical place or place within a group of people to their own lives.

In the second part of the lesson, learners collect, assemble, and label images (from magazines, newspapers or the Internet) into two collages one to represent their current physical and social-emotional places, the second to represent desired physical and socialemotional places in the future.

This hands on exercise will provide an experiential introduction to goal setting, and contract writing activities, which follow.

Objectives
participants learn:

• self-reflection through visual imagery
• to select images related to specific ideas/ themes and present effectively
• to share self-reflection with others in a supportive environment
• to write a list of short and long term goals for themselves
• to write a class contract and an individual contract

A) Collage Activity: Present and Future

Discussion

Review the concept of "place" as a physical place (place where we live) and a socialemotional place (where we belong) amongst other people.

Then, ask them to describe their current physical place, and how it affects their lives (such as type of house, recreational opportunities, or jobs).

Next discuss a person's place within a group of people. Examples of places among people include a person's place among peers, as a learner in school on a team, as a person in a family, or among others in a community. Lead learners in a discussion of how their places within groups of people influence their lives and choices/goals (past, present and future).