Community - How it helps us

Community - How does it help us

December's Pillar of the month

​Goal: Today, I will be able to explain why a community helps combat loneliness.

Why?: So that I can find a community in which I feel connected.

Success: I am successful when I describe my perfect community and why it fits me.

Open Ended

In your own words, explain what a community is.

Then, explain how it helps people.

Open Ended

What are some benefits of living in a community where you feel welcome, safe, and recognized?

Open Ended

What are some negatives of being rejected by your community? What happens to you?

Poll

True or False: Loneliness affects how you feel but doesn't physically hurt you.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

What were some of the tasks that communities had to do together to survive?

• Caring for offspring (children)

• Getting enough calories (food)

• Staying safe and warm

• Developing better communication skills

Open Ended

Describe how the "social pain" of rejection from your tribe would result in loneliness being written into the biology of humans.

Open Ended

The narrator mentions that many people leave their social networks behind to pursue things like jobs, adventure, and romance in our modern age.

How could this be a benefit to developing new and a different communities? Name 2 reasons it could help.

Open Ended

Name three ways you see the world differently when you are feeling lonely.

Reorder

Put in order the vicious cycle of loneliness.

• You feel isolated

• You then feel more tense and sad

• You start focusing on the negative interactions more

• Your thoughts become more negative

• You isolate further and feel even lonelier

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Open Ended

What were some of the suggestions of the narrator to break the cycle of loneliness? Name at least three.

Open Ended

What is a community you currently belong to?

Open Ended

What are the various communities to which the people in the video belong? Name at least three.

Open Ended

What would be the most fun part of belonging to the Japanese firefighter community?

Open Ended

Your turn! Describe your perfect community.

Who lives there?

What do people do?

What do you do?

What entertainment is there?

How does it support you and all of your wants and needs?