100 Conversations – Personal boundaries
Audience: Youth, Parents + Caregivers, Advocates + Educators
Topic: Boundaries + Values
Ready to jump in?
These ideas help everyone in the conversation:
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Define personal boundaries
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Talk about different kinds of boundaries
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Name three boundaries
Think about this first:
This conversation helps frame the idea of personal boundaries within different contexts and asks questions to help think about boundaries.
Having the conversation
Start here:
How would you define personal boundaries?- Sometimes I hear the word “boundaries” and think physical boundaries –what other kinds of boundaries are there?
- How do most people usually learn about boundaries?
Continue:
- How do personal boundaries change as someone gets older?
- How are personal boundaries different based on the relationship with another person? Like, would personal boundaries be different with a friend than a family member? What about a stranger?
Keep talking:
- Do you have different boundaries with a friend than with a partner?
- What are the biggest differences?
- Do you ever have to change the boundaries you have set up with someone?
- Why would you want to change your idea of boundaries with a certain person?
- What kinds of boundaries do your friends have? How do you know?
- Are your boundaries pretty similar, or different? How are they different?
- Do you think that people from other cultures have different boundaries
- How are they different? How are they similar?
- Have you ever had a conflict with someone who had very different boundaries than you? What did you do?
- I’ve experienced that a couple times before, here is what I did _____.