This document provides guidance on refusal skills, including identifying goals of refusal such as asking questions, naming potential troubles, and identifying consequences. It outlines steps for refusal, such as staying calm, making eye contact, being assertive, and repeating or walking away if needed. The document also discusses ways to handle pressure, including various activities, as well as various ways to say no when facing peer pressure. The overall message is that everyone has the power to resist peer pressure if they truly want to.

1. Refusal Skills

3. Everyone has the
power to resist, but
everyone doesn’t
sincerely want to.

4. • Keep your friends
• Have fun
• Stay out of trouble
The Goals of Refusal

5. • Ask questions
• Name the trouble
• Identify the consequences
• Suggest an alternative
• Move it, sell it, and leave the door open
Steps for Refusal

6. • Stay calm
• Make eye contact
• Be assertive
• Repeat if necessary
• Walk away
What to Do Under
Pressure

7. • “Right Choice” activity
• “Gorilla Game” activity
• “Pressure Point” activity
Various Ways to Say No

8. • Having the ability to refuse or stand out alone when peer
pressure is strong is often very difficult, but a person can
resist if he/she really wants to.
• If he/she doesn’t really want to, it is easy to give in.
• Remember, everyone has the power to resist, but
everyone doesn’t sincerely want to.
Summary