- 192 pages
- English
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About this book
An essential resource for all kinds of groups, these tried and tested strategies will stimulate and encourage full participation from all group members. Provides ideas for introducing group members to each other, breaking down barriers, energising people, helping people learn, moving the group on, building trust between group members, motivating people, assessing and evaluating the group, managing behaviour and personal responsibility, and ending sessions. The activities are set out in a clear, easy to follow format, with variations and guidance for adapting the activities. Will enable group leaders to promote group members' self development, meet the needs of their different learning styles, stimulate their creativity and develop their thinking skills. This toolkit is an invaluable resource for tutors, occupational therapists, nurses, care staff, probation staff, youth leaders or anyone - new or experienced - who works with groups.
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Introductions and icebreakers
Activities to help participants get to know each other, to make it easier for them to be in a group, to encourage participation and to break down barriers.
- Famous people
- Word association
- Personal possessions
- Goofy questions
- Fears and hopes
- Getting acquainted
- Things I like
- Assets I bring
- Memory game
- Animals
- Question time
- Who I relate to
- Find the person
- Preferences
- Birthplace
Famous people
AIMS
- To help participants get to know each other
- To identify influences on beliefs
- To enable people to feel at ease and start making disclosures
- To have fun
PREPARATION materials needed
None.
THE ACTIVITY
Ask the group members to think of a famous person whom they admire. What qualities does that person have that they respect? Allow a pause for thought, then ask each group member, in turn, to state his own name, the famous person he admires and the qualities he respects in this person.
VARIATION
Instead of using famous people, have group members think about a personal acquaintance who has influenced them in some way. They state who the person was and in what way they have been influenced.
COMMENT
This is a non-threatening method of introducing group members to each other and enabling them to start making disclosures. If you like, you can alternate between a round using famous people and a round using personal acquaintances.
USE ALSO FOR
Building trust, energising and motivation.
Word association
AIMS
- To help group members get to know each other better
- To begin building trust
- To encourage self-disclosure
PREPARATION materials needed
Have available a short list of words to stimulate associated memories. Examples are: spring, school, food, journey, holiday, Christmas, animals, and so on. Write the words up on a flipchart, chalkboard or whiteboard.
THE ACTIVITY
Ask the group members to choose a word that stimulates a memory for them. It might be something that happened at Christmas, a special or difficult journey they made, or an animal they became attached to. After a pause for thought, participants, in turn, state their name and the word chosen – and share the memory. If a wide choice of words is used, a second round of memories can be completed if required.
VARIATION
Instead of using words as stimulae, cut some pictures of places from magazines, for example mountains, beaches, sports scenes, and so on. Display the pictures and invite participants to choose a picture that stimulates a memory. Each participant then states his name, shows the picture and recounts the associated memory.
COMMENT
Group members will be encouraged to participate if you start by sharing one association of your own with a word or picture. Words used for association can be chosen to suit particular groups. The activity provides a light-hearted method of preparing group members to make personal disclosures in all types of settings.
USE ALSO FOR
Building trust, energising and motivation.
Personal possessions
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of resources
- The Group Leader’s Toolkit Activities listed by theme
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- THE TOOLKIT
- Bibliography