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Help children to understand when their strengths are


       helpful and not so helpful








                                       Rigidity is helpful when:                                              Flexibility is helpful when:
                                       ▪   Staying determined to finish a job                                 ▪    Needing to think through different ways
                                       ▪   Staying loyal to a cause or person                                      to solve a problem
                                       ▪   Saying no when under pressure to do                                ▪    Thinking things through from different

                                           something unhelpful or dangerous                                        perspectives
                                       ▪   Exploring a topic in depth and with                                ▪    Compromising so all in the group feel ok
                                           passion – becoming an expert.                                      ▪    Managing a change to what was expected
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