Connect well

Connect well explores the workshop topics of connecting, loneliness, assertiveness, and negotiating.

All of the content in our online resources aligns with the messages in our weekly wellbeing workshops.

• Try out the positive relationship quiz.
• Ideas for connecting with your local neighbourhood community
• Try creating your own pepeha to introduce yourself in te reo Māori.
• Read advice on How to connect with friends and how a problem shared is a problem halved.
• Lysida Denworth talks about why good friendships are crucial to survival.
• Check out these online games and activities to play with friends over Zoom:
  • Pictionary
  • Cards
  • Scattergories
  • Downtime dice generator from All Right?
  • Sleepovers and movie nights using Netflix party.

Loneliness

• Try out this worksheet on talking about your feelings and how communication is important for keeping well-connected.
• Listen to Kio Stark talk about why you should talk to strangers to create unexpected connections.
• Read about how to connect with friends, whānau, school, and nature and how connection is critical to your wellbeing.
• Watch a video about how to have a chat with someone you are worried about.
• Active listening exercises help you practise listening to people and respond in ways that make them feel understood to improve your relationships with them.

Assertiveness

• What is assertiveness, why it is important and why it is different from being aggressive.
• Read about how to be effectively assertive from Marcia Reynolds.
• Watch this video You Have the Right to Speak Up from the School of Life.
• Read about how to deal with friendship conflict and how to have hard conversations with friends and family.
• Recognise if you are experiencing bullying and tips to help.

The Student Interest and Conflict Resolution team is a central point for students to receive advice and support about responding to threatening, inappropriate, and concerning behaviour.

Negotiating

• Read about the GROW coaching model that supports solution-focussed negotiation.
• Read about how to manage the challenges of making lots of decisions as you become independent.
• Watch a video about how to have a chat with someone you are worried about.
• Try out the positive relationship quiz.
• Watch a video about the Art of Diplomacy in negotiation, friendships and relationships.
• Read about how to deal with friendship conflict and how to have hard conversations with friends and family.