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A. Student Aspirations, Family Expectations

A.1 Get to Know the Students of Your Group
You can begin by introducing yourself in brief, and inform them that you would be their Human Values
mentor. Get students to introduce themselves one-by-one (in a language they are comfortable with).

(i) At personal as well as family level

• Place/city where I come from (I stands for the student)

• Family & schooling background (the extent to which the student is comfortable to share)

• Hobbies & interests
(ii) At thought level

• What I wish to be? (What kind of professional career and personal goals, how I project myself, etc.)

• What I wish to do in my life? (What to do in life through career or otherwise). Thereafter, the
students may be asked the following to continue interaction:

(a) Understanding my own goals, desires, feelings

(b) Reflecting on my own actions/behaviour

Assignment-A.1

Write 1-2 pages on a person you know who has influenced you a lot. You should have sufficiently interacted
with that person. It may be a core family member / extended family member / teacher / neighbour (one may
be encouraged to write about two persons, one from family and the other from the extended circle).
Students can write in Hindi, English or their mother tongue. Encourage use of mother tongue.

A.2 My Expectations from the Family

Ask students to talk about their family. My expectations from my family members - mother, father, brother,
sister, grandfather, grandmother, chacha, chachi, etc.

• You may respond in between if the students are focussing on only material or non- material
aspects.
• We may divide the responses into two categories material requirement (tangible things) for the
body and non-material requirement (intangible things) like love, respect, care, etc. for the mind.
Having done so, the mentor may create the platform for self introspection by the students so that
they prioritise these two types of requirements in their own life.

• Conclude what we want from our family members.

Assignment-A.2

Observe people around you, observe their behaviour. Whose behaviour influences you a lot? for your self-
development, self-understanding to emulate (i.e. to try to do like this or even better than this) in your life.

B. Gratitude

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