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101 Ideas for Increasing Focus & Motivation

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Sue Jennings

  • 101 Ideas for Increasing Focus & Motivation

120 pages
Interest Age: 5 to 18
2015
ISBN: 9781906531454

Practical activities to enable young people to explore the issues behind lack of focus and motivation and to build self-awareness, concentration and coping skills.

Many young people struggle with motivation and an inability to focus, both at school and at home. They often lack the skills to persevere with tasks, to concentrate and to devise solutions to problems, which can in turn lead to a disproportionate reaction to failure, and to challenging behaviours. These young people may be focussing on other matters, for instance worries or anxieties; they may lack self-esteem or confidence in their abilities; or they simply may not have the language skills to understand the tasks they have been set. Some young people may struggle with focus and motivation owing to attachment issues.

The activities begin by addressing experiences that lead to lack of focus, including sensory distractions, memories, fears and anxieties and encourage an understanding of underlying feelings and giving these physical expression, before moving on to an exploration of interests and motivations and new experiences.

Activities Include:

  • Increasing attention
  • Being organised
  • Increasing calm
  • Boosting performance
  • Procrastination
  • Dealing with failure
  • Problem solving
  • Fighting boredom
  • Increasing self-esteem.

The activities progress from physical and non-verbal, to voice and sound, to art activities and then role-play, story and drama. They provide a practical means of exploring the issues behind lack of focus and motivation and will help to develop more organised, self-aware young people who are better equipped to deal with the challenges they encounter in daily life.

Each activity has a tick box to indicate if it is suitable for children, teenagers or both.

Resources include worksheets and story-sheets which, along with all of the activities, are photocopiable and can be printed from the enclosed CD Rom.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

  • Underlying Development Principles
  • How to Use this Book
  • How to Structure a Session

Part One

  • Focus Games

Part Two

  • Dice & Card Games

Part Three

  • Sensory Distractions

Part Four

  • Big Distractions

Part Five

  • Body Learning

Part Six

  • Understanding Feelings

Part Seven

  • Drumming a new Rhythm

Part Eight

  • Activities I Enjoy: Sports & Games

Part Nine

  • Activities I Enjoy: Hobbies & Interests

Part Ten

  • Using Stories

Resources

Warm Up Games

Worksheets

Story Sheets

References & Further Reading