The document provides an outline of a classroom session on understanding habits. It includes the following key points: 1. The session discusses habits, how they are formed and broken, strategies for breaking bad habits and forming good ones, and creating plans. 2. Students complete workbook activities covering habits, benefits and disadvantages, and strategies for breaking and forming habits using mindfulness and visualization. 3. The session concludes with discussing homework on creating plans to break a bad habit and form a good one, and the benefits of sharing plans with others.

1. Your Substance Misuse Unit is on the desk – Please sit on
the chair where I have placed your file.
Have a look at your feedback (white sheet at the front
and marking during the unit)
If you have any questions – Please write the question
down so that we can go through it at the end
You will take this unit with you today
Before we get started…

2. Understanding Personal
& Social Wellbeing
Level 1 Award
with Michelle Walsh @ The Waterside Centre
01254 354413
mwalsh@accross.ac.uk

3. Housekeeping
 Fire evacuation
 Toilets
 Smoking – Away from the front door
 Phone calls / appointments – Outside of classroom
time
 Commitment – Always AIM for 100%
 Sessions - NO SESSION NEXT WEEK
 Absences – to be reported to tutor
mwalsh@accross.ac.uk or Waterside (01254 354413)
You are able to use ItsLearning for resources to catch
up
 Brews – 25p per session – WASH OWN CUPS
 Questions?

4. 1. Re-cap what is meant by the term ‘habit’
2. Identify a minimum of 1 personal good habit/bad habit
3. Outline how habits are formed
4. State a minimum of 1 benefit of habits/disadvantage of habits
5. Outline how personal environment can impact on forming and breaking habits
6. Discuss homework task – Outline a minimum of 2 strategies for breaking and
forming habits
7. State how mindfulness could help break and form habits
8. State how visualisation could help break and form habits
9. State why rewarding personal success when breaking and forming habits is
important
10. State why it is important to create realistic goals when attempting to break and
form habits
11. Discuss homework task - Outline a simple personal plan to: a) Break a bad habit
b) Form a good habit & state the possible benefits of telling others about a
personal plan
Session 5

5.  Key terminology = Strategies, mindfulness, visualisation,
 English = Verbally communicating effectively with others,
writing sentences to show your understanding
 British Values = Respect – Following group rules to help
form mutual respect and comfortable learning
environment for everyone
 5 ways to Wellbeing = Keep learning, Keep Active
What else can you expect..?

6. Any questions so far?

7. Let’s try the name recollection
activity again!! 
I wonder if we can do it first time
Icebreaker

8. Forming and
Breaking Habits
continued

9. Learning outcome 1 –
Know about habits

10. Discuss this in pairs and work
together to write a couple of
sentences about it – We will share
this in the group
Do you remember what the
term ‘habit’ meant?

11. Habits: things we do repeatedly, but
are hardly aware that we have them
A habit can also include the way we think
What is a habit?

12. Group task – 10 mins
Work as a table to share examples of YOUR good
habits – Nothing too personal as this is
information that will be shared within the class
Identify PERSONAL good habits –
We looked at bad habits last
week

13.  Good habits
A behaviour that benefits physical and mental health, often linked
with high levels of discipline and self-control. Examples; regular
exercise, balanced diet, monogamy, consumption of alcohol in
moderation
 Bad habits
An undesirable behaviour pattern. Examples; overspending,
fidgeting, procrastination, nail biting, smoking too much.
Some habits don’t matter – Taking showers at night, eating yoghurt
with a fork, reading the last chapter in that book
Other examples…

14. Power of habit

17. Now you have explored some ideas about habits;
 Use your notes to help you complete page 12 of
the workbook
 All answers you provide, need to be your own
thoughts and ideas
Workbook

18. Research task;
2 pairs to research - What are the benefits of habits?
1 pair to research - What are the disadvantages of habits?
If there is a person working independently please choose which
one you would like to research
Take notes – You will share your findings with the rest of the class
Benefits of habits vs
Disadvantages of habits

19. Advantages
 Habits help us for smooth functioning
 Habitual actions cost us little effort
and less strain
 Habits do not require our conscious
attention
 Habitual actions save our time
 Habits make our movements simpler,
quicker and more accurate
 Our activities do not become tiresome
(no fatigue)
 Since the activities become automatic,
we do not need our higher mental
processes like thinking, reasoning,
creativity, etc. for these activities and
such abilities can be used for other
better activities.
 Good habits provide feelings of
stableness and security.
Disadvantages
 There is danger of becoming slaves of
our habits
 There will not be any scope for
thinking or creativity
 We cannot learn new things
 Our actions become mechanical
 Habits interfere in our other activities
 We feel highly disturbed when we have
to make any adjustment or change in
our routine like eating, sleeping, etc.
 There may be negative effects both
physical and psychological. For
example, if there is any change in
timing of sleep, food, etc. we feel
highly disturbed both physically and
mentally such as sleeplessness,
indigestion, nausea, mood upset, etc.
http://www.psychologydiscussion.net/habit/major-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-habit-formation/636

20. Think about this question for a minute…
Work in pairs to discuss this and provide a short summary to the
question
You could consider the things around you, the people, lifestyle
choices, home life etc
Once you’ve done this we will share a few ideas
How does YOUR personal environment
impact on forming and breaking
habits?

21. Learning outcome 2 –
Know how to break and
form habits

22. You needed to… Outline a minimum of 2
strategies for breaking and forming habits
Research if needed;
You needed to include a little information about it
How did you get on? – Share information with your table – Take
note of other ones as you will need to be able to write about 2
different strategies!
Homework

23.  Intentionally repeat the good behaviour at least 30 times
 Improve your environment
 Set the intention and schedule your habit on your calendar
 Have a powerful why
 Make your new habit the first thing you do each day
 Get an accountability partner
More information can be found at;
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2018/06/22/15-
proven-strategies-for-building-and-dropping-habits/#1f485c558724
Examples of strategies

24. Now you have explored some more ideas about
habits;
 Use your notes to help you complete page 13 of
the workbook
 All answers you provide, need to be your own
thoughts and ideas
Workbook

25. 15 minutes = Plenty of time for
a brew, chat, drink of water,
toilet visit 
BREAK TIME

26. What is mindfulness?

29. How does mindfulness help?

30.  mindfulness
 the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.
 "their mindfulness of the wider cinematic tradition“
 a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the
present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting
one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a
therapeutic technique.
Mindfulness

31. What is visualisation?

33.  visualisation
 the representation of an object, situation, or set of information
as a chart or other image.
 "video systems allow visualisation of the entire gastrointestinal
tract"
 the formation of a mental image of something.
 "the story uses descriptive language to aid visualisation"
Viualisation

34.  Work together to create a large and colourful poster for 1 topic
 Mindfulness
 Visualisation
 You need to include what it is, appropriate drawings/pictures and
how it could help form and break habits
Each person in the pair, must contribute to the poster
Activity - Pairs

35. Now you have explored some more ideas about habits;
 Complete the AC 2.2 & 2.3 on page 14 in the workbook
 All answers you provide, need to be your own thoughts
and ideas
Workbook

36.  Remember ‘The Habit Loop’? – If you don’t, please get the
worksheet out from your portfolios
 Consider the impact that reward has on us and the habit
loop process
 Any ideas? Take notes – You will need these
Why should we reward personal
success when breaking and forming
habits?

37. Group discussion – Why is it important to
create realistic goals to help break and
form habits?
Share responses with rest of group
State why it is important to create
realistic goals when attempting to break
and form habits

38. Now you have explored some more ideas about habits;
 Complete the bottom half of page 14 in the workbook
 All answers you provide, need to be your own thoughts
and ideas
Workbook

39. This can be about your feedback from the
substance misuse unit, clarifying
homework or something you are not too
sure about
Please ask before you go
Any questions?

40. Individual task – Complete the table
on Page 15
You could use the examples from
your ‘habit loop’ activity
State the possible benefits of
telling others about a personal plan
on page 15
HOMEWORK - Outline a simple personal plan
to:
a) Break a bad habit b) Form a good habit

41. Take those home with you – Check your
feedback from previous units, complete
anything that needs amending
Workbooks

42. 1. Re-cap what is meant by the term ‘habit’
2. Identify a minimum of 1 personal good habit/bad habit
3. State a minimum of 1 benefit of habits/disadvantage of habits
4. Outline how habits are formed
5. Outline how personal environment can impact on forming and breaking habits
6. Discuss homework task – Outline a minimum of 2 strategies for breaking and
forming habits
7. State how mindfulness could help break and form habits
8. State how visualisation could help break and form habits
9. State why rewarding personal success when breaking and forming habits is
important
10. State why it is important to create realistic goals when attempting to break and
form habits
11. Discuss homework task - Outline a simple personal plan to: a) Break a bad habit b)
Form a good habit & state the possible benefits of telling others about a personal
plan
Session 5 Objectives
Did you..?

43. You will be looking into;
Personal Resilience
 Traits of personal resilience / mental toughness
 Identify traits of personal resilience / mental toughness
 Identify personal areas for improvement in personal resilience /
mental toughness
Next Session