Chanceful Thinking

Participants / The faciliatator should ask questions such as "What kind of positive aspicts are there when your house would burn down tomorrow?" "What kind of advantages would it bring if you would lose your job tomorrow?" Then, participants should come up with all kinds of postive aspects, even if they are of minor value. It is likely to reach an atmosphere of surprise and fun within the group. Several participants should answer one question and eventually come up with another question that other participants would have to answer. The procedure can even be widened by asking e.g. "What would your aunt, your brother, your best friend find positve about it?" This way, different characters can be included in the activity. Additionally, this would clarify that people having different character traits would also find various things rather positve respectively negative. It underlines further that having a postive or negative attitude towards something is always a subjective matter, not objective.