1. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

2. What do you know?

3. Self-fulfilling prophecy
Our beliefs about what we think we can accomplish and what others tell us we can accomplish have a huge impact on how we interact with people and what we get out of those interactions.
We are more likely to become what we truly believe we are - whether it’s true or not.

4. What others believe about us
How we act
How others act toward us
What we believe about ourselves

5. Others form the belief the child is stupid
For example…
Others form the belief the child is stupid
Child doesn’t
study and
fails
A child is told
(s)he is stupid
(S)He believes it’s true

6. We are what we expect
What we believe becomes our experience, not because it is the only option, but because we choose to act in ways that affirm our beliefs
Interrupting the self-fulfilling prophecy cycle at any stage can begin to change what we believe is possible.

7. Exercise
How do self-fulfilling prophecies play out in your life?

8. Let’s hear your examples…

9. What’s the good news?
Self-fulfilling prophecies aren’t always a bad thing (they are what we make them).
The more you orient to positive beliefs, the more your brain will use them (choose those beliefs) over the negative ones.

10. Find a buddy What are you learning from this conversation?
How can you apply this to your team?
To your life goals?

11. Homework Assignment STEP ONE
Identify a self-fulfilling prophecy that you want
to begin to change to a more
positive self-fulfilling prophecy

12. Homework Assignment STEP TWO
Identify different qualities you would have
and/or things you would accomplish
if you fulfilled this new positive prophecy.

13. Homework Assignment STEP THREE
Create something that illustrates what we would see when you begin to live your positive self-fulfilling prophecy.
Include qualities and accomplishments
Create something that you can show in class and print a copy for your binder

14. Homework Assignment
STEP THREE: EXAMPLES
A Vision Board

15. Homework Assignment
STEP THREE: EXAMPLES
A Drawing or Painting

16. Homework Assignment
STEP THREE: EXAMPLES
A Poem

17. Homework Assignment
STEP THREE: EXAMPLES
A Collage

18. Homework Assignment
STEP THREE: EXAMPLES
A Song

19. A Short Comic/Graphic Strip
Homework Assignment
STEP THREE: EXAMPLES
A Short Comic/Graphic Strip

20. Homework Assignment
STEP ONE: Identify a self-fulfilling prophecy that you want to begin to change to a more positive self-fulfilling prophecy
STEP TWO: Identify different qualities you would have and/or things you would accomplish if you fulfilled this new positive prophecy.
STEP THREE: Create something that illustrates what we would see when you begin to live your positive self-fulfilling prophecy.
Examples: Vision board
Drawing/Painting with words
Poem
Collage
Song
Graphic Comic Strip