Look outside your friendship group
Provocation
Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
Francis Bacon
• Who are your friends?
• How arbitrary or serendipitous might the start of a new friendship be?
• Opposites attract, so to what extent is it necessary to have things in common with people to maintain a friendship?
• How mobile are friendship groups at school? Are people open to making new friends?
• What are some of the things that make friendships work?
• Can broken friendships be repaired?
• What is a toxic friendship? Can friendships be good or bad for our self-esteem?
• Is it okay for friendships to end? How do we manage that?
• How can we monitor our friendships and check that they are healthy?
Task 1
Organise a social outing with your thumb compatible comrades from Week One.
Make a note of a couple of things you find out about them.
Task 2
Make a diary note to organise a second social outing with this same group in a month.
