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Paper Planes with Words that Fly

PAPER PLANES IN FLIGHT...READY, SET, GO! Well, I know you are probably wondering about the title of my post, but I could not come up with a better one to share with you. It was the best I could have come up with at the time. Words do fly, and let me prove it to you... The last few weeks I was in a training workshop and one of the activities I chose to do with my participants is to let them make paper planes. You know the ones we use to create when we were kids. Now, it is pretty funny and nearly impossible to convince and lead a group of grown adults in the making of a little paper plane but my class went along with me on the adventure. We folded our papers and made our wings, some more perfectly than others but they managed to get through the exercise. The next step was to write their names on one side of a wing and something positive about themselves, using adjectives that were affirming not negative. They were also told to write on the other wing a generic inspirational,