Passions through Generations!

Human being is a multi-dimensional being. He has a physical, mental, spiritual, emotional sphere. At the social level, he takes on a variety of roles. He is a father/mother, daughter/son, sister/brother, grandmother/grandfather, worker, voter, citizen, taxpayer. A doctor, teacher, priest, politician, salesman, businessman, CEO, board member… Human identity is built on a number of things, and there is one especially beautiful element between them. These are passions.

Join #2h4family: it’s very easy!

Print form “A”, attach to it 3 photos and shoe sizes of all employed, bring to window “C”… STOP 😉 Joining the #2h4family campaign is, fortunately, very easy 😊

Join us!

• FIRST –Inform the Board of Directors, Departments: HR, CSR, ESG and register your company by May 15, by completing out this form.

• SECOND – On May 15, encourage Employees to spend time together with their families..Inspire them: take ready-to-use materials from our website, you can find them here.

• THIRD – give the people in your Team two hours offto spend time with their families. This is not obligatory, but more than 90% of participating companies do it. We suggest doing it around May 15 on International Day of Families. While the choice is yours, equally good dates are “Children’s Day”, the First Day of School. You can also arrange with each person separately when they will receive their #2h4family.

• FOURTH – Celebrate around May 15! Create rituals of closeness to be closer at home and at work! Prepare team-building activities for your Team, design them to be inclusive for Employee Families as well. You can find inspiration and ready-made ideas here and here.And that’s the END!

The rest of the program points are optional, though highly encouraged!

• PO FIFTH – encourage your Team to participate in our competitions with prizes. Information about them coming soon here and here.

• SIXTH – give us a report on how your Company celebrated 2h4family. We will award the most interesting realizations! See last year’s winners of the competition for the implementation of the Two Hours for Family | for Human campaign: here.

• SEVENTH – invite partners, contractors foreign branches of the company to join the campaign. In this way you will become an Ambassador of #2h4family!

How to celebrate

As individuals who make up society, we are finding ourselves further and further from each other. The pandemic has widened the distance between people, the prevalence of remote work has meant that some of us don’t need to meet colleagues on a daily basis. Some time ago, researchers at the University of Chicago conducted a study showing that people who have a high subjective sense of loneliness sit and stand a little further away from their family and friends than people who don’t feel lonely.

If we keep going like this, we’ll get further and further away from each other. It is worth taking remedial steps – let’s try to get closer to our loved ones. Here we want to inspire you on how to do it.

Passions through Generations!
How about painting? Draw together with your Children. Draw the Ideal World – in the process you will learn how they imagine it.

How about cooking? Folk wisdom says that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach – eating meals prepared together is a great bonding experience.

Passions can range from conquering eight-thousand-meter peaks to collecting mugs with kittens. if you include your loved ones or join in their passions yourself, you will discover a whole new dimension of being with each other.
Be with each other at least on International Day of Families, May 15. And best of all – be with each other regularly. You will see for yourself how great it is for the quality of life.

We will be asking this year’s Ambassadors of the campaign about their passions, who will it be? That’s a surprise for now!

Reach for art, visit a museum! See a movie together!

There are different definitions of artistic activity, but most people are more likely to agree with the statement that when we interact with art, we get to know the world through the prism of the artist’s sensibility. Why not do it with the people who are closest to us?
Go to the cinema or theater, visit a museum, listen to music together. Even a series on Netflix would be a good choice. The most important thing is that you experience it TOGETHER. Exchange your experiences later.

Maybe your Dad will identify with one of the TV series characters, Mom has never heard a better rendition of Chopin’s mazurkas and Grandma will discover that she is a fan of Tamara Lempicka’s paintings? Check it out! If you are running out of ideas, use our recommendations: here.

How to start a good conversation? 

Talk about your dreams and passions: what will you ask a fairy to do? How about your mother? What superpower would you like to wake up with tomorrow? Do you have a common family passion? Has it been in your family for generations? Do you know your grandfather’s childhood passion? What did your grandmother collect when she was in elementary school? Ask them about it!

Nothing connects like memories! Reminisce together: what did you most enjoy playing with your parents or grandparents when you were little? What was an unforgettable childhood treat – what was it? And for your parents/grandparents?

Much has already been said about the positive effect of laughter on health and psyche, so use the shared moments for laughter. Tell each other what was the best prank you did to someone? Ask family members about the strangest thing they’ve ever eaten, or the funniest blunder they’ve faced. Talk about what reliably makes you smile?

Recommended collaborative games:

DIXIT – this beautiful and simple card game was created by Jean Louis Roubir, a French doctor working with young people experiencing difficulties in a school environment. It turned out that by having beautiful cards with fairy-tale images and coming up with associations to them, they were able to get to know each other better and learn non-violent communication. What is sitting in the unconscious of your Parents, Friends, Colleagues? Play with them and find out.

TABU – is also a game of associations. You get a word that you have to present to the rest of the team (e.g. “cat”) and a set of words that you can’t use with it (e.g. “animal”, “dog”, “milk”, “meow”, “mouse”). If the team guesses, and you don’t make a mistake and break any taboos, you gain points. It is not unlikely that during the game you will hear the thunderous laughter of the most gloomy member of your Family😊

ASK ME – created by the Humanites Institute, this game contains cards with sets of questions that will help you get to know your family or group of friends better. Do you think you know everything about them? And do you know what cartoon character is the most inspiring to your Mom, what it means to your Dad to be a happy and fulfilled person, what life failure turned out well for your Grandmother? Reach for the ASK ME cards and discover the secrets of the people you think you know very well!!

These are our suggestions, but as long as there are good intentions, all you have to do is dig out of the attic an old ludo board, or take out the cards and play the well-known thousand or Macau. Have fun!

Inspirations

Your Team already knows that it will celebrate #2h4family this year. You’ve registered using our form and are starting to think about what activities you want to implement as part of the campaign. Are you looking for hints? You’ve come to the right place – here they are!!

How do others do it? Does Humanites provide materials for you to use? What additional activities await teams that have joined the program?

This year’s motto: “Passions through Generations”

gives a lot of room for creative minds. We encourage your Team to come up with its own individual way to participate in the action, for example:

• Contest – present “your passions”?
• Picnic?
• A family outdoor game?
• A company fundraiser for an animal shelter? A
• series of webinars on parenting for employees?
• The sky is the limit! And budget😉

You can find more examples of the implementation of the campaign by small and large companies from different sectors HERE

The sky is the limit, so others are doing it like THIS:

The most common activity of choice are contests for employees. Mostly they start from the motto accompanying the year. Here are examples:

• “Small and big family trips?” – Those who designed their own postcards of their favorite places in Poland were rewarded.
• “Generational movie club?” – Employees competed on dishes inspired by their favorite movies!

Prizes included company gadgets, and if the budget allowed – gifts that prompted joint family activities – tickets to an aqua park, a cinema, or an amusement park.

Excellent prizes would also be ASK ME cards created by the Humanites Institute!

ASK ME CARDS

Every year we release a new edition of cards that will work perfectly as a tool for deepening interpersonal relationships. They can be played within the family or other people close to each other, also during team-building activities at work. They contain sets of questions, loosely inspired by this year’s theme, so that players can get to know each other’s experiences, dreams, and plans better. It’s best to collect them all! Or choose the ones that appeal to you the most – with a theme from the latest edition?
A movie theme? A travel theme? The cards are bricks with which you can support the annual organization of our action. Pack price 33/pc, see in store.

GRAPHICS – downloadable, ready-made materials for HR and marketing:

Each year we prepare them with the current motto in mind. We provide an A4 poster, graphics for use on social media and banners of various sizes. Graphics – download here. We recommend sending an email/letter with information about the campaign to the people you hire. If you are looking for inspiration, we have prepared a draft letter, you can find it here. There is nothing to prevent your Team from preparing such a letter yourself, or to have it written personally by the Team leader.

HUMANITES INSTITUTE CONTESTS

Every year we prepare a contest for your employees. You can win valuable prizes in it. Together with those who participate, we are looking for the motto of next year’s campaign. Encourage those who are employed to participate and follow our Facebook and Instagram profile – we will announce the next edition in May. In the previous edition, you could win a KROSS bicycle, a luxury family stay at the Bukovina Hotel, Storck Sweets… and much more!

Last year we also held an additional contest. We asked you what is most important in relationships. The main prize – a high-end smartphone – was sponsored by Orange. This year we will repeat this activity!

ASK ME Cards. Ask me and I’ll ask you!

These are different every year, but you can buy the ones from previous years, too. They cost PLN 33 per pack. They are created by your Employees too because every edition of #2h4family we have a competition for the motto of the next year’s campaign. The content of the next pack is inspired by this theme..