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Most Popular Activities

Explore Indigo Impact Initiative's most popular activities for students. Click the button below to download all of the most popular activities, or select individual activities from from the list on the right.

Strengths Wall

To let students explore their strengths, and the strengths of their classmates; to understand the diversity of skills in the classroom and how that can benefit the class/group dynamics.

Personal Style

To allow students to explore their behavior and communication style and the styles of their classmates. They will be able to explain the benefits and struggles of each component and describe how their specific combination shows up for them.

Motivator Statement

For students to understand the importance of their top two Motivators and reflect on how these show up in their own life.

Diving Deeper into the Skills Report

To help students understand their skills, how to utilize these skills, and ways to develop the skills that come less naturally by tapping into their top skills.

The Mirror

Too often, student’s minds become inundated with their deficits and they lose sight of what is amazing and unique about them. The purpose of this activity is to allow students to explore strength, style and passion statements about themselves and better understand some of their own uniqueness.

Personal Statements

To familiarize the students with their Indigo Reports, and what traits make them unique. This activity will help students think about who they are, what they stand for and what they want for themselves.

Personal Essay / Who I Am Art Piece

This activity gives students a chance to express themselves while exploring their Indigo traits. The options of either an essay or art piece allows students with different skills, Motivators, and styles to reflect themselves using their preferred method.

HARD Goals

The goal of HARD Goals is to begin an organized process towards a career goal. Sometimes it’s hard to wrap your head where to start, so this activity gives you step-by-step instructions on how to make a career goal into a career path.

Using Indigo to Write a Resume

To help students start a resume.

Mock Interview

To introduce students to what a job interview may look like and prepare responses for some questions they might be asked. To help students practice using Indigo language that describes their strengths and skills, how to describe themselves in an interview and how they can be successful in a work environment.

Group Dynamics

To help students understand their strengths and value to a team, and also understanding others’ strengths and value to a team. Help students create a cohesive, collaborative team by exploring what each member brings to the table.

Genius Hour

To give students an opportunity to pursue what they have learned about themselves from their Indigo Report and create something that is uniquely their own. This activity can also inform the school as a whole about additional programs students would like to participate in and community centered projects that could be incorporated into the school.

Using Indigo to Write a College Essay or Personal Statement (Version 1)

To give students direction when writing a college essay or personal statement.

Using Indigo to Write a College Essay or Personal Statement (Version 2)

To help students stand out in their college essays and other personal statements by using language found in their Indigo Reports. The language in their Indigo Reports can help students learn how to use accurate, personal, and positive language to advocate for themselves in writing.

The Awesome Project

All students, from the self-confident to the self-conscious, are reinforced with the idea that they are awesome, no questions asked. Students walk away with a final piece of work that they can showcase to employers and post-secondary schools when applying.

The Hot Seat: Interview Practice

So many bright, capable students are never exposed in school to what the job or college interview looks like. This exercise gives them a taste of what it’s like to be “in the hot seat” and how they can use their Indigo Reports to prep for it.

Study Your Way to Success

In almost all future paths, the ability to focus on your work is critical. This exercise is designed to help students understand that studying is less about developing the skill and more about learning the best ways for you personally to study.

21st Century Culture Fit

Students often grapple with questions such as “What is the right career for me?” “What is the right college for me?” “What is the specific thing I should be planning for when I start my career?” However, students rarely consider “What type of culture and environment would fit me?” until years after high school. This exercise is designed to get them thinking about this last question to help guide their decision making process.

Indigo a Career Field

Why find a career field when you can just Indigo it? Indigo provides more than enough information to narrow down options for the future (and if you already did the 21st Century Culture Fit exercise, then students may have already narrowed it down to a broad category such as “Non-Profit Fit” or “Corporate Fit.”) This exercise provides time for students to have some introspection on specific options that fit them.

Discover Your Dream Path - Group

Sometimes, what students need most is the time to real-talk with their peers about what the future may look like. Students work in groups to discover what type of careers or majors might be interesting to pursue and learn more about those options.

Discover Your Dream Path - Individual

It’s time to blaze a trail and take some time for introspection! Students will work individually to discover what type of careers or majors might be interesting for them to pursue and learn more about those options.

Indigo for Essay Writing 1

Where do you even begin with a college essay? What details do you pull from your life to convey what makes you unique? These are the questions students face, and this exercise is designed to tackle them directly. This exercise will help students use the Indigo Report to come up with topics and start writing about them for their college essays.

Indigo for Essay Writing 2

Admission counselors for colleges read thousands of essays. This exercise will help students weave Indigo language from their reports into their writing pieces and help them stand out.

Indigo for Resume Writing 1

The hardest part about writing one is sometimes even starting one. Even if students don’t have much work experience, they can still use Indigo Reports to craft 2 self-descriptive sentences for future resumes.

Indigo for Resume Writing 2

Crafting a top-notch resume is truly key for students looking to break into life after high school. This exercise takes students into even deeper applications about how to take language from their Indigo Report and turn it into an accurate, compelling resume.

The 15-Minute Rec Letter

Sometimes, it’s hard to write recommendation letters for 250 different students! This provides simple, quick ideas for writing recommendation letters for any student using the Indigo Report.

College & Career Activities

Explore Indigo Impact Initiative's college & career activities for students. Click the button below to download all of the college & career activities, or select individual activities from from the list on the right.

Analytical Problem Solving

When it comes to analytical problem solving, identifying the problem is only the first step. We want to create solutions! Shift the mindset away from complaining about problems to collaborating on solutions and implementing the best ones.

Conflict Management

Some of the best new ideas result from fully engaging in conflicts, yet many people avoid conflict because they have not learned the skills for creating productive conflict. This activity will give you a six-part process you can use whenever you encounter conflict: in school, in life, or in your job.

Continuous Learning

This activity is designed to provide an opportunity to define lifelong learning, explore multiple ways to pursue continuous learning, to acknowledge the ways in which one is already a lifelong learner, and to commit to always continue to learn, in school, in life, and at work.

Creativity/Innovation

Google, a company with a reputation for innovation, gives its engineers one day a week to work on a passion project. What would happen if we gave students the same flexibility? What if we gave them the time to pursue their own genius?

Decision Making

Learn to use a Decision Matrix Tool. Often we need to make decisions that involve choosing from two or more options. A Decision Matrix is a tool that can be used by individuals or teams to clarify the process of deciding among options and to help assure the best decision is made.

Diplomacy/Tact

Diplomacy and tact are approaches to communication that impacts our relationships and the environments in which we live, learn, and work. The goal of this exercise is to deepen one’s knowledge, abilities, and inclinations in the areas of diplomacy and tact by using a “Three Levels of Text” protocol to reflect on the content of an article and its implications for life, learning, and work.

Empathy

Empathy means identifying and caring about others. To do this successfully, we need to be tuned into our own emotions, as well. The goal of the activity below is to have an opportunity to notice your own emotions. Most people rarely stop to consider the emotions they are experiencing, except when those emotions become intense. This is a self-empathy check-in.

Flexibility

It is important to monitor your own responses to change, because as you gain understanding about how you react to change, you will develop flexibility skills.

Futuristic Thinking

Futurists imagine, envision, or predict what has not yet been realized. They work to develop their brains to envision possibilities that others may not and to champion progressive ideas. Those who devote their careers to futures thinking work in the context of core principles for futures thinking.

Goal Orientation

Goal setting is one of the most powerful but underutilized tools at our disposal. Did you know that people with written goals are 50% more likely to achieve them than people without goals? This lesson is all about teaching you to spend more time thinking and writing down your goals so that you can set goals throughout your life – and achieve them.

Interpersonal Skills

If you can’t connect with the people around you, your personal, academic, and future professional life will suffer. One way to build your interpersonal skills is to carefully observe those around you whose skills you particularly admire.

Leadership

In the midst of routine activities, it’s good to remember that there is a big picture for your life you need to discover. The goal of this exercise is to expose you to high-level leadership thinking and start investigating your own leadership style.

Management

Management is one of those skills that is very difficult to improve without practice. What you might find surprising is that you might already be “managing” more people that you realize. Here are some ideas for practicing management right now.

Mentoring and Coaching

Giving and receiving feedback is an integral part of growing as an individual, developing your skills, and working with others to achieve a common goal. This two-part activity will go over how to give and receive feedback using two different methods. Part 2 focuses on how to receive constructive feedback.

Negotiation

Negotiation is the ability to bargain effectively and facilitate agreements. Successful negotiators possess a repertoire of strategies they draw upon whenever they are faced with an opportunity to negotiate.

People Advocacy

One of the best ways to learn to advocate for others is to first learn their story. When we fully hear and understand each other’s stories, we know how to better advocate from a cultural and meaningful point of view. This storytelling exercise is a valuable practice for not only people advocacy, but also empathy, interpersonal skills, decision making, and leadership.

Personal Responsibility

Someone who has a strong sense of Personal Responsibility will perform well even when expectations aren’t clear, resources are hard to find, and competition is tough. In building your personal accountability “muscles,” it can be useful to reflect upon and self-assess your strengths and weaknesses in this area.

Persuasion

Persuasion is the ability to convince others to change the way they think, believe, or act. Learning to use the skill of persuasion will allow you to influence others now and in the future.

Planning/Organizing

Create your own unique organization system that is uniquely tailored to you, which will organize your time, priorities, and workload into the perfect planning system.

Presenting

Great presentations require planning, and experienced presenters know how to structure the presentation.

Teamwork

People who have well developed Teamwork skills understand the strengths and weaknesses of others and place a high priority on the success of their department and/or organization. People with strong skills in Teamwork support team decisions and share responsibility with team members for successes and failures.

Time and Priority Management

It’s easy to get overwhelmed as a student with all the things that can attract your attention (everything from homework and clubs to Internet videos about cats and Corgis). This exercise will give you a tangible tool to help you articulate your priorities.

Written Communication

The best way to get better at written communication is to write!

Skills Activities

Explore Indigo Impact Initiative's skills activities for students. Click the button below to download all of the skills activities, or select individual activities from from the list on the right.

Introductions

The purposes of this exercise is to kick off the group, get to know the students, and set the tone of the meetings.

Art Project

The idea behind this exercise is to spark creativity in the students. The other purpose to this exercise is to give the students an opportunity to express themselves freely.

Highs and Lows

The purpose of this exercise is to remind students that all of life contains both positives and negatives; life is never “all good” or “all bad.” This exercise is a good icebreaker for the first few sessions, when students are still getting a feel for the group.

Use Your Unique Strengths

This exercise helps students understand their strengths, how to articulate them, and explore how to use them.

Voicing Your Personal Needs

This exercise will help students understand what their unique combination of needs is and how to express them to others.

Ideal Work Environment

This exercise helps students understand they need to find and create environments that fit who they naturally are.

Positive Self Talk

The purpose of this exercise is to teach students to control their thinking patterns and view themselves in a positive light.

Support System

This exercise will help students understand the qualities that make up “safe” people so that they can build a better support system.

Letter to Yourself

The goal of this exercise is to have students become more self-loving and self-empowered by making them take the time to give good advice to themselves.

How to Communicate with Others

The objective is to explain to students how people are different, and how they can use their unique communication style to connect with students who are not like them.

Talent Show

This exercise is designed to boost the self-esteem of the students—it also shows them that there are many ways for them to use their talents in life. Reminding students that there are plenty of options in the future is important to keep them inspired to move forward.

Understanding Your Behavior

This exercise not only reinforces self-awareness of unique strengths and skills, but how to listen and understand the strengths, skills, and styles of others.

Practicing Resiliency

This exercise is designed to remind students that “failure” is not a bad thing—our mistakes are usually the best learning experiences in our lives!

Conquering Fear of the Future

The goal of this exercise is to build students’ confidence about the future by remembering their past successes.

Listening

Students will learn the value and validation that active listening provides, and they will practice providing it to others.

5-4-3-2-1 Game

The point of this exercise is to teach a coping mechanism to students to help handle stress, panic attacks, or emotional overload.

Asking Why

This exercise helps students take a deeper look into their insecurities to find ways to overcome them.

Guest Speaker

A guest can bring an outside perspective on the problems that can help students see issues from a new light—it equips students with new ways to approach the thing with which they are struggling.

The Wrap-Up

The goal of this exercise is to talk about what students learned from these sessions and what they see as practical lessons they can use in their lives.

SEL Activities

Explore Indigo Impact Initiative's SEL activities for students. Click the button below to download all of the SEL activities, or select individual activities from from the list on the right.

3 Doors

To think about how some things that once felt challenging can become less difficult as we age and learn, and to apply this awareness when facing new challenges.

Adding Gratitude to Your Day

To encourage gratitude amidst stressful situations.

Becoming

To reflect on change and managing change.

Bridge the Gap

To acknowledge that the space between you and your goal isn’t a measure of whether or not you will succeed.

Building Confidence

Explore confidence through your strengths.

Building Trust

To build trust within yourself.

Character -istics

To explore self-confidence through the use of the story element of “characters.”

Choose a Character

To think about going through the motions of a familiar situation through the lens of a character that inspires you in order to see it from a new perspective.

Confident Moments

Build resiliency and explore the term itself.

Conversation with Older Self

To think of the future in a safe environment through an envisioning activity.

Conversation with Younger Self

To gain understanding of yourself.

Envisioning Desired Outcomes

To envision the desired outcome of a situation causing you stress and move forward in a way that supports that outcome.

Favorite Role

To think about the current roles in your life and explore your sense of belonging.

Get Back Up

To build resiliency and explore the term itself.

Hero's Journey

To think about life with less boundaries and more solutions.

Many Paths

To think about all of the possible ways you can reach your goals.

Most Confident You

To explore their self-confidence by imagining the most confident version of you. By doing this, you can align your current actions with your desired outcome.

Our Own Supporters

To explore self-esteem.

Reframing Roadblocks

To explore the idea that setbacks are simply ways to practice being resilient.

Simple Resilience

To explore the concept of resilience and how you can bring this into your everyday life.

Strengths List

To think deeper about all possibilities and the many ways to get there.

The Collage

To explore self-esteem through the things that make you feel the most like you.

Unfiltered

To release the tension surrounding a stressful situation and approach it with a clearer mind — without worrying about having a filter, explaining, or saying things “the right way.”

What's Your Role?

To think critically about the roles you play in your own life by using narrative and story elements.

Short SEL Activities

Explore Indigo Impact Initiative's self-guided SEL activities for students. Click the button below to download all of the short SEL activities, or select individual activities from from the list on the right.

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