Hi, I am looking for some ideas for deeper, more serious youth activities (for high school students) where the lesson is about helping them understand the world's influence on an individual and their identity and ideally about courage of standing up for what you believe in.
I was part of the InterVarsity in my college years and I remember them using the term "simulations" for activities that lasted about 30 minutes to an hour that put students into pretend situations where their worldview and how they would react in certain situations could be brought to the surface and challenged.
I'm looking beyond simple youth icebreaker-type games but ones that would elicit a bit more debriefing and discussion afterwards.
As an example: A single group member is taken out of the room and given a precious item and instructed that they are about to enter a culture and they must not give up that item. They also must make friends with at least one person in the group. The group members back in the room each also have an item and are operating in a culture where in order to greet each other, an item must be exchanged, and it is considered deeply disrespectful to not greet members that you meet. If someone offends too many people, the culture collectively decides to the shun the individual by all walking away. We let the student back in the room and let them play out the scenario seeing how the student responds to the pressures of an antagonistic culture.
I haven't fully fleshed out the above example but it gives you an idea of what I'm looking for.
I was part of the InterVarsity in my college years and I remember them using the term "simulations" for activities that lasted about 30 minutes to an hour that put students into pretend situations where their worldview and how they would react in certain situations could be brought to the surface and challenged.
I'm looking beyond simple youth icebreaker-type games but ones that would elicit a bit more debriefing and discussion afterwards.
As an example: A single group member is taken out of the room and given a precious item and instructed that they are about to enter a culture and they must not give up that item. They also must make friends with at least one person in the group. The group members back in the room each also have an item and are operating in a culture where in order to greet each other, an item must be exchanged, and it is considered deeply disrespectful to not greet members that you meet. If someone offends too many people, the culture collectively decides to the shun the individual by all walking away. We let the student back in the room and let them play out the scenario seeing how the student responds to the pressures of an antagonistic culture.
I haven't fully fleshed out the above example but it gives you an idea of what I'm looking for.
