 Hi! Today I'm going to share with you a really simple training activity that you can use either with young people as part of a lesson or with adults as part of a training session. I often get asked to share ideas for how to run kind of discussion activities, so hopefully this is an idea that you can pick up and run with. And it's called opinion corners. So the idea here is basically lots of the kinds of topics that I often will be encouraging you to talk about with your colleagues or with your students are topics where there's not an easy yes no right wrong answer but rather something where we're looking to generate discussion and opinion. So with opinion corners what we do is we take a question essentially one that is going to divide opinion and we make the four corners of the room, don't do this in a round room it would be rubbish, we make the four corners into the room the place for different opinions. So one will be strongly agree, one will be agree, one will be disagree and one will be strongly disagree and we can put a sign up in those corners if you're feeling fancy and then we just ask the question, so for example you might say I don't know, self-harm is attention seeking and then the people you're working with go to the corner that represents their view on this. Then you would go to each corner and talk to the people in that corner as part of a group discussion and ask them why they're stood in that corner and during that discussion point other people might choose to change which corner they're stood in based on what they've heard and how you can really make this activity kind of really work and really generate some great discussion is if people choose to move between corners based on something they've heard, asking the people who are moving I'd really be interested to hear why you've changed your opinion, what was it you heard that changed your mind. One thing it's really important to bear in mind with this is that sometimes you're going to be sort of talking about some quite contentious or difficult topics and some people will not want to share their opinion so when we're teaching about tricky topics whether that's with kids or with adults we always need to give people the right to pass. So those who don't want to participate who don't want to go to the corners or who don't want to share their view about why they're in a particular corner should have the right not to participate if they don't want to. So it's a super simple activity you can just keep up your sleeve I just have it kind of to bear in mind lots and lots of the stuff I do is really simple and discussion based but every now and then I find that you know things are beginning to get a little bit sleepy and I want to get people on their feet and opinion corners is a really really quick and easy way of doing that if nothing else it gets people up gets them moving gets them thinking and makes them actually actively involved with the question in hand so maybe give it a go and let me know how you find it. I'd love to know whether you find this activity helpful and also whether you would like me to create more videos like this in the future so not specifically about mental health but about how to train and teach about it with training activities and that kind of thing if you'd find it helpful please do leave a comment down below. Also if there's a training or teaching activity that you found really helpful in the past please leave that in a comment down below too because I'd love to hear about it and I know other people read the comments too. Thank you so much for watching and until next time stay safe take care and be kind to yourselves and don't forget to subscribe if you'd like to see my new videos every Tuesday and Friday. Bye.