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In 16 th of July 2008 Rescue Humanitarian Foundation had a meeting having as purpose information and counseling the adolescent. The topic of this meeting was: Decision: Choice is yours
On this meeting had participated 12 adolescents from Cluj Napoca, age between 14 and 18 years.
The activities realized on this meeting were:
- watching a documentary movie named ”Choice is yours” and discussion the problems from movie.
- taking decision through role playing ”Lost on the sea”
This movie present the history of wrong decision took by series criminal before he had arrested. At the beginning, the choice he made was little different from the right one, but during time, this difference get bigger and bigger and this lead to a significant difference from the right one from the beginning.
Role playing present a person being lost on the ocean. The boat gets fire. You don’t know were you are because the navigation system was destroyed and you can’t find your exact location. The most optimistic estimation says that you are at 1000 mile from the nearest land. On the boat remain 15 objects. Your duty is to arrange these objects from the most important for you to survive to most unimportant to survive.
The purpose o these two activities were to increase the adolescent awareness about the importance of decision. We decide what to do and not to do. Nobody decide for us. We choose one or another alternative from the varieties of possible solution. There are several criteria that we consider and from the view of we evaluate all possible alternatives. We evaluate every alternative from different criteria but we overestimate one of these criteria and underestimate the other criteria.
When we decide about something we should evaluate all alternatives and decide the most important criteria for evaluation. Another important aspect in taking the decision is to be aware of consequence of your decision.
The adolescents had informed about the steps that they should follow when they have do decide something. We present them the strength of this way of thinking and we make them aware about the effect of the decision take very easily. |
