1. Friendship

2. Bellringer
Create your own friendship algorithm
5 minutes

3. Discussion What is your definition of a friend?
What types of qualities do you look for in a friend?
What types of qualities do you have that make you a good friend?

4. Qualities Understanding Acceptance Open and honest Feel good Trust
If you are looking for these qualities… the other person is too

5. A Friend Is.. Someone who you can talk Someone who accepts you
Someone who supports you
Someone you can trust
Someone who is open

6. Why Do We Need Friends? Take time, commitment, energy
Both people need to contribute
Offer lifetime benefits
Help you mature socially, intellectually, and emotionally

7. Understand Own Thoughts and Feelings
Learn more as you express yourself
Share ideas, dreams and future plans
Friends give feedback
Help you think through and solve problems
Intellectual growth
Interpret feelings “you seem hurt.. She really offended you, didn’t she?”

8. Accept Yourself Everyone needs to feel important
Close friends listen, accept ideas, and include you
They like you for who you are
Comfortable and relaxed
Emotional growth

9. Develop Empathy Empathy: helps you feel what another is feeling
Become more sensitive to others thoughts and feelings
Maturity
A friends grandfather just died…

10. Increase Communication Skills
You spend lots of time talking
Resolve personal differences
Social maturity

11. Work Cooperatively
Consider each other’s opinion and ideas.. Choose solution that is agreeable to all
Reach agreement is easier because similar views
Mutual acceptance and mutual respect

12. Companionship Do things together, share ideas
Need to love and be loved

13. Prepare for Future Long-Term Relationships
As you mature, you develop more caring and less selfish personal relationships
Appreciate friends for unique qualities
Close friendships will create lasting marriages