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Second section December 28 1994
Program helps teens identify their personality
Students learn about themselves through
By Fred Groves
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EXETER - Are you a green, a
blue, a yellow or an orange?
It may sound like a rainbow but it
was more of an opportunity for
young people to come to grips with
who they really are.
Over 75 South Huron District
High School students were at a
one -day seminar on Thursday
called True Colours.
The purpose of the seminar, set
up for the co-op students, was to
help there rolearn more about them-
selves and others around them.
"It helps them identify who they
are and who other people in their
lives are," explained South Huron
teacher Janice Walker who co- ticular colour) in high school and
ordinated the event. being accepted," said Walker.
• The students were asked to de- At the seminar, held at the South
termine which color they are. Each Huron Recreation Centre, once the
colour symbol-
izing a particular
character type.
Green is people
who are curious
and investigative.
Blue is loving
and caring while
yellow is some-
one who is an or-
ganizer and predictable. Orange
stands for action, someone who is
adventurous.
"The kids love it. A lot of them
have a hard time being this (par -
"The kids love it. A lot of
themhave a hard time
being this (particular
colour) in high school and
being accepted."
students
were able to
realize what
colour they
were, they
were put
into groups.
Each
group would
have one
character type per group. They.
were given a scenario, and asked
how they would react to it.
"It's a workshop based on per-
sonality theories. It's an opportunity
True Colours program at South. Huron
to look at the different personalities
of which there are four," said Val
Millson-Jensen of the Huron
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County Board of Education who
was the instructor of True Colours
on Thursday.
"Everybody has all four of them
(colours). Their own combinations
are unique," added Millson-Jensen.
She said there are two goals of
the True Colours workshop. The
first is to understand more about
yourself and what your strengths
are. The other is how to appreciate
others which will therefore, in the
long run, strengthen relations.
Millson-Jensen said True Colours
not only works with high school co-
op students who want to better un -
Looking to find one's own True Colours
derstand their employers, but it can
also be utilized for younger stu-
dents and adults.
Walker said that once the stu-
dents knew how the seminar could
be utilized, it just didn't have to be
directed towards employers.
"After they're done they go out
and analyze their employers. They
can go and analyze their parents."
Some of Thursday's exercises
were serious, others had a little fun
involved. Asked, were what the stn
dents value and enjoy in life and
a little less serious, how they would
spend a million dollars.
"Each of the different per-
sonalities would spend it differ-
ently," said Millson-Jensen.
For some who attended the semi-
nar, it was no doubt a chance to get
out of the regular classroom and
into a setting which could help de-
termine what kind of person he or
she is.
While Millson-Jenson and Walk-
er pointed out that we may have a
little bit of all four major per-
sonalities inside of us, there is al-
ways one which dominates.
True Colours is a program de-
veloped by a man in California and
as indicated by Millson-Jenson, "he
wanted to provide a workshop that
was fun and that people would
walk away from and remember."
it
Val Millson-Jensen (right), of the Huron County Board of Education, discussess with South Huron District
High School students the "colours" of their individual personalities. The program, at the South Huron Rec-
reation Centre on December 14 was part of the True Colours program recently launched by the board.
Doing a skit as part of the True Colours program were
South Huron students Karen Lovie (left), Rob Luther, and
John Brown.
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