Session 5 - March 16, 2008

Leadership Institute
Agenda

1230pm - 12:45pm: Welcome, Agenda Overview

12:45 - 1:00pm: Leadership Check-in
Have all the students take a couple of minutes to journal about the answers to these two questions. Once they have finished journaling, have them share their answers with one other person. Then have everyone come back to the group and brainstorm together the answer to these two questions.

1. How can we challenge ourselves to be the type of leaders who bring different communities together?
2. What are some of the roadblocks that we face as leaders in bringing people together?

1:00pm - 1:15pm: Workshop Components Assembly Line

1. Give each student and envelope containing different components of a workshop printed on strips of paper.
2. Tell them that they must put the ten workshop components together in order from the first one they think should happen to the final one.
3. Have each person present their idea of the order of the workshop.
4. Hand out components worksheet and review with the entire group.

Component Listing

1. Set up the room
2. Greet the participants
3. Introduce yourself (facilitator)
4. Go over guidelines
5. Facilitate icebreaker
6. Facilitate main activity
7. Processing
8. Closure
9. Evaluations

1:15pm - 2:00 pm: Breaking Down Workshop Components

1. Write the first workshop component up on a sheet of newsprint. Have the group brainstorm when this would happen and what are the different tasks that need to be completed during this section of the workshop. Also have them write a couple reasons why this part of the workshop is important.
2. Follow this procedure for each component of the workshop. When you reach the sections about the icebreakers and main activity, have the participants brainstorm different icebreaker activities and topic activities that they have done before. (EG, icebreakers: name game, musical chairs; topic activities: human barometer, role plays)
3. Have each person share what aspect of the workshop they are personally most comfortable with and have them share why that is the case. Also have everyone share what component of the workshop they are most challenged by, and have them share why they think that is the case.
   

2:00pm - 2:15pm: Counting Game

1. As a quick way to get everyone re-focused and ready to plan the adult workshop have them play the counting game.
2. Tell the group that they have to count from 1 - 20 together as a group, but one person cannot say two consecutive numbers and if two people say the same number at the same time they have to start again from the beginning.
3. Give them a 1-2-3-ACTION, and time how long it takes the group to reach the number 20.

2:15pm - 3:00pm: Planning for Adult Workshop

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