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C OMPASSIONATE I NTEGRITY T RAINING
A S ECULAR E THICS A PPROACH TO C ULTIVATING P ERSONAL , S OCIAL AND E NVIRONMENTAL F LOURISHING
I NTERDEPENDENCE D RAWING *
Goal: To enable participants to recognize that we are part of a vast ecosystem dependent on other
individuals, institutions, and the environment to survive and thrive and to gain gratitude from the
awareness.
Materials: Large poster paper or large poster-sized Post-it Paper (one for each breakout group), and at least
one marker for each participant (preferably multiple colors)
Time: 20 to 30 Minutes
Instructions:
1. Split the participants into groups of three to five people.
2. Provide each group a piece of poster paper and four to five markers of various colors.
3. Instruct the group, “As a group, select an object in the room (other than a person) you may not
have paid any attention to when you came in the room, but you now realize has value to you.
Then, draw a small picture of this object in the center of the poster paper. Try not to take up too
much space on the paper; you will be writing other things around the picture.”
4.
After they have selected an object and drawn it on the poster paper, say, “Write on the poster paper
all of the things the object depended on to be in the room at this moment (e.g., raw materials,
transportation, education, manufacturing, etc.) with arrows indicating how each of these different
parts of the process are connected or related.”
5.
After approximately five minutes, suggest, “Be sure to include everything that you have already
included depend on. For example, if you have included transportation, what is required for the
truck or other vehicles to exist, the vehicle operators to be able to drive the vehicles, etc.”
6.
After another few minutes, ask each group, “Pay particular attention to all of the people who are
involved in each of the areas of your drawing. As a group try and estimate how many people are
involved in each area.”
7.
After another three to five minutes, ask, “Total up these numbers and estimate how many people it
takes to get your object into this room.”
8.
After each group has arrived at a figure, gather everyone back together as a group.
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