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    Let the Games Begin: A Guide to Self-Exploration and Team Building Activities
    Let the Games Begin: A Guide to Self-Exploration and Team Building Activities
    Let the Games Begin: A Guide to Self-Exploration and Team Building Activities
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    Let the Games Begin: A Guide to Self-Exploration and Team Building Activities

    By Ruth Frisz, Joe Bertolino and Ugo Eze

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    Have you ever led a group or taught, facilitated a workshop or taught a class and needed the perfect, interactive ice breaker or thought provoking exercise? This manuel provides just that! As facilitators, speakers and professors, we found we were always looking for interactive exercises that allow students and participants to reflect, think and learn. As a result, this first collection of exercises from the Queens College Student Personnel Departments Peer and Leadership Program was created. The majority of these exercises have been created by students, for students.



    These activities can be used by many different types of organizations including, but not limited to educational institutions, businesses, non-profit organizations, and religious institutions. The activities lend themselves to adjustments and revisions depending on the goals of the workshop, conference, retreat or in-service meetings. This manual is designed to offer ideas and suggestions to those who want to provide this kind of opportunity to their employees, students, administrators, management teams or others.



    Fun, interactive and thought provoking, these exercises are the perfect solution to creating a dynamic learning environment.



    Let The Games Begin!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 18, 2012
    ISBN9781475935202
    Let the Games Begin: A Guide to Self-Exploration and Team Building Activities
    Author

    Ruth Frisz

    Ruth Frisz, Ph.D is an Associate Professor Emeritas of Student Personnel at Queens College of the City University of New York. Joe Bertolino, Ed.D is the President of Lyndon State College in Vermont and past Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at Queens College of the City University of New York. Ugo Eze is a graduate student in the Department of Urban Affairs at Queens College of the City University of New York, and currently conducts leadership and self-exploration sessions within church organizations around NYC.

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      Book preview

      Let the Games Begin - Ruth Frisz

      LET 

      THE 

      GAMES 

      BEGIN

      A Guide to Self-Exploration 

      and Team Building Activities

      RUTH FRISZ PH.D 

      JOE BERTOLINO ED.D 

      UGO EZE

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      Let The Games Begin

      A Guide to Self-Exploration and Team Building Activities

      Copyright © 2012 by Ruth Frisz, Ph.D, Joe Bertolino, Ed.D, and Ugo Eze.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-3519-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-3520-2 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012912074

      iUniverse rev. date:   07/11/2012

      Contents

      Introduction

      Opening Activities

      Facts That Click

      If You Were

      Name Game

      Public Announcement

      Representations

      Rollin’ on a Fortune

      Sentences and Stories

      Slices of Life

      That Thing About You

      The Unexplored

      This Is Who We Are

      Time Periods

      What’s Your Sign?

      When You Wish Upon a Star

      Self Exploration Activities

      A Face in the Crowd

      All Alone

      Alternate Ending

      Book of Life

      Card of Memories

      Changes Within

      Coat of Arms

      Cycles of Life

      The Genie & Me

      Great Escape

      Guess Who

      Guided Imagery

      Headband Exercise

      Hot Seat

      I Want to. I Wouldn’t Dare.

      If I Had a Million Dollars

      Inside Out

      Jekyll & Hyde

      Last Chance

      Life’s Successes

      Mirror and Me

      My New Neighbor

      Past Experience

      Personal Ads

      Personal Pyramid

      Pictures and Goals

      Pieces of Me

      Rituals

      Rolling on a Fear

      Spin the Bottle

      Taking Sides

      Things We’ve Lost

      Wall Around Our Heart

      War

      Wheel of Reflections

      Where Do I Belong?

      Team Building

      Balloon Toss

      Building a Utopia

      Changing the Game

      Dream World

      Egg Drop

      Group Introduction

      Marshmallow Tower w/ Roles

      Our Time Together

      Skits

      Stranded With Strangers

      Survival Scramble

      Whatever Floats Your Boat

      Relaxation Activities

      Bed Time Story

      Embarrassing Revelations

      Musical Chairs

      Speedy Squirrel

      Twilight Zone

      Words From the Wise

      Closing Activities

      Discovery

      Graveyard

      Hard Letting Go

      Into Reality

      Life Saver

      Medal of Honor

      Our Avatars

      Conclusion

      INTRODUCTION

      Whatever you are, be a good one.—Abraham Lincoln

      Quick Tips from the Authors

      Dr. Ruth says:

      The activities found in this manual were developed over thirty years in the context of a service learning educational experience, which was part of the Peer Program at Queens College. The Program consists of three credit-bearing courses: Introduction to Counseling and Advisement, Practicum in Counseling and Advisement, and Advanced Practicum in Counseling and Advising The first course is an educational training course where the students who are selected to become Peer Counselors are trained in counseling techniques and skills as well as communication and interviewing techniques. During the second semester course, the students actually do peer counseling and this is one of their practicum experiences. The emphasis in this course is supervision by licensed staff psychologists and counselors, and topic-related discussions on such issues as stress, depression, suicide, culture, and adolescence to name a few. The third and final semester of the program involves continued development of counseling skills, learning how to supervise and teach, the center piece of this course is the semi-annual retreat which is a requirement for all the students in the program.

      The third semester students create, plan, organize, implement and evaluate the weekend under the supervision of the professor who teaches the course and is also the program coordinator. The Director of Counseling assists with this project and also trains the small group facilitators. The weekend is the term project for the third semester students. Approximately 60 students and 4 staff attend this weekend every semester.

      The weekends focus on leadership development, interpersonal communication and team building. The Peer Counselors, throughout the years, have participated in a series of activities designed around a specific theme. These are conducted in large and small groups and each are processed by group facilitators who are students and are trained in group facilitation prior to the weekend.

      The weekends allow the participants to come together for an opportunity to learn about and participate in an educational activity that encourages collaboration and involvement between and among the students, the faculty coordinator and the professional counselors.

      This model and these activities can be used by many different types of organizations including, but not limited to educational institutions, businesses, non-profit organizations, and religious institutions.

      The activities lend themselves to adjustments and revisions depending on the goals of the workshop, conference, weekends or in-service meetings. This manual is designed to offer ideas and suggestions to those who want to provide this kind of opportunity to their employees, students, administrators, management teams or others.

      Dr. Joe says:

      If there is any advice I can give a program organizer, facilitator or participant when approaching any of these activities is to HAVE FUN! Assembling a program and participating in it shouldn’t feel like a chore. Regard it as an opportunity. In a fast paced society where our technology is only hurtling us faster into a realm of impersonal cyber communication, sitting down with several other people and expressing thoughts and emotions, revealing aspirations and fears, and coming to terms with victories and losses, are a rarity. So cherish this opportunity.

      Ugo says:

      During my tenure at Queens College, I was presented with the opportunity to become involved in various programs that facilitated leadership training and self-exploration. My long-term participation with these programs has equipped me with direct knowledge of the student/participant point of view. While assembling this book, I was able to operate from a facilitator point of view. I am now able to speak candidly from both standpoints. Through this, I have come across a few simple ideas that will aid in the creation of a successful program. Now let’s get this party started!

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