Need vs Wants

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After our summer holiday break, it was great to be back together again!

After hearing about everyone holidays, we were very lucky to have an eye opening Peer Led session from Talia and Victoria. The cohort was confronted with a difficult idea of balancing our time each day to include all the essential activities, activities we wanted to spend our time doing, and activities we would like to spend our time doing. 

The Peer Led session began with the cohort being split into two groups. Using 24 jelly beans which represented all the hours in the day we had to divide them up into cups which were labeled with essential activities. One group divided them as an ideal day and the other as our realistic day. The discussion was based around mostly the time in a day we put towards community service. The ideal side had a substantial increase of jelly beans compared to the realistic side of our lives. We discussed the ideas regarding balancing time and we came to the conclusion that it is important to maximise our time and look at what we want and maximise our time throughout the day doing what is ideal for us.

We then looked at the idea of want and need in preparation for the upcoming Shabbaton (wooooo!!!!!) next week. Given that we are going away for a Shabbat we mainly spoke about religious values. We began by imagining we were stuck on an island. Using a list we had to pick three things we want and need on the island, we then narrowed it down in groups and made a collective list which then led into the next activity. We used the idea of wants and needs to have an open discussion based around each fellow’s individual religious beliefs and what we ideally want our Shabbaton to look like. Overall we discussed compromises were happy to have in regards to prayer services. 

Today’s session was ultimately an eye opening one which made people in our cohort share their views and belief so we can create an communal Shabbat where everyone feels comfortable. We were also faced with a visual representation of the way we spend our time each day and how we would prefer to spend our time.
-Tommy Schwartz 





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