🤝🧠 KAWA: Responsibility – A topic that grows within us

What does responsibility mean to you?
Keeping a promise? Being a role model? Escaping your victim role?
With this KAWA on the topic of "Responsibility", you'll explore these questions creatively, personally, and in a brain-friendly way.

🧾 What's in the KAWA?

KAWA stands for:
👉 Creative
👉 Assessment of
👉 Word
👉 Associations
…and is a method by Vera F. Birkenbihl, which activates thinking, opens perspectives, and anchors content.

🌿 Why "Responsibility" in particular?

Because we often believe we have no choice – and in doing so, we overlook:
👉 Our reaction to circumstances is always in our hands.
A striking example is the story of a participant from our senior memory group who, despite being completely blind, said with full joy of life:

"Jens, did you know that rain smells different? Since I've been blind, I perceive so much more. And when I'm with you in the group, my brain tingles – new neurons are growing!" 🌧️🧠🌸

This attitude is lived responsibility – for one's own thinking, feeling, and acting.

🎙️ Tip: Podcast Episode 138

This KAWA was the basis for a moving episode in my podcast:
🎧 Episode 138: Taking responsibility instead of complaining
Definitely listen in! >>to the podcast "Light up your brain"<<

📦 What's included in the package:

✔ Colored example KAWA on the topic of "Responsibility"
✔ Black and white version for filling out or copying
✔ Empty KAWA template for your own terms & thoughts
✔ PDF format – instantly downloadable & ready to use
✔ Ideal for teaching, coaching, senior care, personal development

🧑🏫 Who is this KAWA for?

• For teachers who want to promote value education

• For coaches & consultants who work with inner attitudes

• For parents & young people to spark conversations

• For elderly people who want to stay active and aware

• For everyone who asks themselves: What can I do myself to make the world a little better?

What does KAWA actually mean?

KAWA according to Vera F. Birkenbihl is an acronym and stands for: Kreative Ausbeute von Wort-Assoziationen (Creative Exploitation of Word Associations). But KAWA is easier to remember. KAWAs can be made on all topics that interest you.

How about your own KAWA and why does this technique work?

First, you write the topic in large letters in the middle. By the way, I always use the paper horizontally for this and draw the letters so that they can be colored later. In our Mindmap template ring block, KAWAs are drawn on the left white page. Now you let your thoughts wander and consider what comes to mind about the term and what would be important enough to write down. The rule of the game is: what is written down must begin with one of the letters in the middle. The shorter the term, the fewer letters you have available and the more you have to think. The lack of letters ensures that you have to think through a topic more intensively. By the way, it is not mandatory to fill every letter. And: there is no right or wrong with KAWA. An example: Suppose you want to create a KAWA about your best friend Eva, then you only have three letters available. But you can use them multiple times. Perhaps then E stands for elegant, successful, eloquent, for V you find her trustworthy, crazy and in love and for A you have associated silly and single. If your best friend had been called Hannelore, you would of course have had more letters available.

KAWA becomes KAGA

If you also clothe the whole thing in many pictures, your KAWA becomes a KAGA and the G then stands for Graphic Design. I myself often write in KAWA form in meetings. This keeps me alert, no matter how unimportant or boring a meeting is. And I catch everything. Here's an example on the topic: Have fun Jens Voigt