Moving Beyond Icebreakers

Book Description

An Innovative Approach to Group Facilitation, Learning, and Action
 

This book captures TE’s approach to successful group facilitation, which works in many different environments with both youth and adult groups of all kinds. Contains more than 300 interactive exercises and explains how to use them within a meeting structure that’s bound to get the results your group needs!

Tools for Transforming Your Teaching and Group Facilitation

Moving Beyond Icebreakers is a groundbreaking resource for teachers, group facilitators, social workers, trainers, youth workers, community organizers, department heads, corporate managers . . . for anyone who runs meetings, large or small, with participants of any age or demographic makeup.

If you facilitate groups and your goals include

   -Team building
   -Group building
   -Creative process
   -Lively sessions
   -Productive meetings (or classes)

then Moving Beyond Icebreakers is for you.

Moving Beyond Icebreakers contains 440 pages packed with insight and ideas about building community, engaging students in learning, and making meetings work. It describes an innovative meeting format and documents over 300 interactive exercises (not just "icebreakers") that enable you to

   -Achieve group goals
   -Build relationships
   -Resolve group problems 
   -Teach, lead, motivate, and inspire

The first 130 pages describe how to use "icebreakers" and other interactive methods to help group members make decisions, create new ideas, solve problems, resolve conflicts, and understand new concepts. In these pages you will find a five-part meeting structure that you can use to become an expert facilitator, following an approach that engages both youth and adults in meeting the group’s goals. You will also find detailed agendas, lesson plans, and scenarios that show how this approach works in the real world.

Moving Beyond Icebreakers is a practical guide to group facilitation and an invaluable resource for community building in a variety of settings.

It is beautifully designed and enhanced by numerous illustrations that will make you laugh while making their point.