APPENDIX III: Sample Lesson Plans

Health Unit 1, Lesson 1: Bringing the Whole Person to Learning
Written by: Anna Yangco and Char Caver

Rationale for this unit:

• We believe that self-esteem is the foundation for lifelong learning and transformation. Our working definition of self-esteem is the amount of pride we have in ourselves. It has been our experience that without unconditional positive self-regard and understanding of the value of the “whole person,” the learner is less likely to persist with their educational endeavors.

Objectives/Goals:

• Raise consciousness about the “whole person”: mind, body, spirit, and emotions.
• To encourage women to investigate new perceptions and attitudes that reflects a wholistic model of the self.

Materials:

• Journals for freewriting
• Writing prompt cards (body, mind, spirit, and emotions)
• Music (relaxing CDs for freewriting)
• Large circle divided into four equal quadrants
• First Nations medicine wheel
• Self-care bags or candles

I. Warm-up: Freewriting

• To calm them down so they can free their minds to learn.
• To focus the students on the topic.

1. Provide learners with writing prompt cards:
   1. Body
   2. Mind
   3. Spirit
   4. Emotions
2. Each woman will pick a card and write for five minute on the aspect of the person they chose.