The Showing Gratitude Skills Facilitator Guide is a collection of step-by-step instructions for teaching 22 social skills activities (405 minutes) to groups of youth and adults.
It is easy to be grateful when life is humming along with little or no problems. Small trials are easily handled and life joyfully goes on. When we experience severe adversity we are humbled and often times we pity ourselves. Despair can be overcome and life can be better endured in the worst of times if we have grateful hearts. Melody Beattie wrote, "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
- What is Gratitude?
- Understanding Gratitude
- Gratitude Journal
- Being Ungrateful
- Thanks Giving
- Taking Stock
- Thank You
- Saying Thank You
- Who to Thank
- 20 Ways to Say Thank You
- Proper Thank You’s
- Writing Thank You Notes
- Thank You For The…
- When It’s Hard to Say Thanks
- Hard to Do
- Poor Me
- Coveting
- I Want That Too
- When Times Get Rough
- When Adversity Strikes
- Turning Lemons Into Lemonade
- Basic to All