Dying To Live - Personal Qualities for Difficult Conversations

Students explore the personal qualities and strategies that can be used when having difficult conversations. They begin by creating a mind-map of personal qualities used to improve difficult conversations and then identify some of these qualities and the strategies used to employ these qualities in a clip from the documentary Dying To Live. Students then work in groups to create a poster about personal qualities and strategies to share with the class. Finally, students are invited to imagine they are preparing to have a difficult conversation about organ and tissue donation with their families and to create a script for this conversation that incorporates personal qualities and strategies.