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Experiential Activities to Develop Critical Thinkers
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This tool kit of forty-five activities is for professionals who work with elementary-aged youth and support the facilitation of structured lessons based in youth-development theory. These activities will support emerging as well as experienced facilitators in developing interactive and educational experiences for youth, and will create more time to focus on building relationships and strengthening community in programs.

  • Establishing Connections: Activities to Create a Safe and Fun Community
  • Creating Agreements: Activities to Strengthen Relationships
  • Building Community: Activities to Encourage Youth Participation
  • Deepening Skills: Activities to Build Skills and Connect to Learning
  • Practicing Core Values: Activities to Explore Community Involvement

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Experiential Activities to Promote Group Development and Youth Leadership
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Forty-eight activities to form strong intragroup connections. Build students’ abilities to take on authentic leadership roles within their classrooms and community. Learn facilitation strategies for:

  • Maintaining engagement during lining up, cleaning up, and transitions
  • Teaching brainstorming and decision-making skills
  • Evaluating choices and create action plans
  • Designing community change projects and reflect on impacts

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Experiential Activities to Explore Values for Elementary and Middle School Participants
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Fifty activities designed to explore and reinforce the application of values. These activities serve as core gateway activities to teach young people the developmental skills required for healthy, productive adulthoods:

  • The skills of productivity through Wellness and Growth
  • The skills of connectivity through Friendship and Accountability
  • The skills of navigation through Peace & Justice.

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Creative, Resourceful & Whole Experiential Exercises to Build Awareness, Transform Perspectives, and Make Choices
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Coaching is a process that empowers individuals and groups to gain greater awareness of what is happening internally, make choices, take action, and cultivate strong connections to others. This toolkit of forty-eight activities was designed by youth development specialists and professional coaches for young people striving to see themselves as Creative, Resourceful and Whole. Young people are all too often told what to do, instead of being asked a powerful question to support their own analysis, reflection and choice-making. Ultimately each of us wants to live a life that we design ourselves, grounded in our own core values, wrapped in our unique sense of identity, and fueled by our own dreams and visions. The activities in this box will support youth through transitions and build the skills of abstract thinking, situation-analysis, creative problem solving, goal setting, and intrinsic motivation for long-term sustainable change.

  • Claiming Your Essence offers activities to support participants to unleash their inner flavor, personality and core values.
  • Getting to the Core offers activities to surface values, needs and support systems.
  • Conversations with my Future Self offers activities for youth to make intentional choices about who they are becoming.
  • Goal Setting provides activities to take youth from where they are today to where they want to go, navigating obstacles and keeping motivation alive.
  • We belong Together contains activities to build relationships, stay connected, navigate conflict and create community.
  • Staying Solid in the Journey offers activities to process emotions, navigate difficult moments and make choices.

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Icebreakers and Team Builders to Elicit Group Values
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Icebreakers and team-building exercises are important tools in a facilitator’s toolbox. They allow for simple and engaging activities that provoke group members’ curiosity about who else is in the room and the multiple perspectives that participants hold. They establish an ethos of a growth mindset—the belief that the learning process is just as important as the learning outcomes. Using the activities in this box will shift the level of comfort, trust, and intimacy within your group so that simple activities can be used to make deep connections to issues of social justice and personal accountability toward making the world a better and safer place for everyone.

The fifty activities in this box offer strategies to continuously engage your participants in discovering themselves, their peers, and their worlds. In each one we pair a selection of powerful debrief questions that can be used to move the group from the direct context of the exercise to abstract thinking about community and social context.

  • Making Connections: exercises for participants to learn about each other
  • Breaking the Ice: fast-paced team-building challenges
  • Creating Trust: activities to challenge group boundaries
  • Building Community: activities to activate personal values
  • Closing the Circle: rituals to create closure

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Experiential Activities to Introduce Identity, Culture, Class, Gender, and Inclusion
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This box explores a series of topics to support young people in making sense of themselves, their peers, their communities, and the world around them. We believe that engaging youth in creating an intentional community requires an understanding of the ways our social systems have supported or disrupted the quality of relationships among diverse people. The activities in this box explore the ways our society has developed a set of conditions that have caused certain groups from select communities to feel more connected and empowered at the expense of others. For young people to make better choices about how they connect with others, they must understand subtle messages supporting an exclusive culture that are present in the media, in their family dynamics, and in social structures.

  • Facilitator Prep - Activities to Support Conscientious Facilitation
  • Identity - Activities to Explore Oneself
  • Gender/LGBTQ - Activities to Understand How Gender Shapes Us
  • Inclusion - Activities to Connect to People with Disabilities
  • Race - Activities to Understand Racial Identity
  • Class - Activities to Understand Social Groupings

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Icebreakers and Team Builders To Build Community
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Icebreakers and team-building exercises are important tools in a facilitator's toolbox. Whether participants are learning an academic subject or taking part in a fun enrichment exercise, young people need to feel a sense of ownership, connecting, and input to stay engaged in the learning process. The forty-eight activities in this box offer simple, hands-on strategies to get youth connected, into their bodies, and out of their comfort zones and to translate learning into applied action.

In each activity, we offer powerful debrief questions to help young people understand how they learn, what they care about, and how they can connect each experience to other moments in their lives. Using the activities in this box will shirt the level of comfort, trust, and intimacy within your group so that simple activities can be used to make deep connections to the social and emotional learning climate.

  • Section One: Breaking the Ice
  • Section Two: Holding Space
  • Section Three: Deepening Connection
  • Section Four: Getting Physical
  • Section Five: Solving Problems
  • Section Six: In Summary

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Icebreakers and Team Builders to Build Social Emotional Skills
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Icebreakers and team-building exercises are important tools in a facilitator's toolbox. Whether participants are learning an academic subject or taking part in a fun enrichment exercise, your people need to feel a sense of ownership, connection, and input to stay engaged in the learning process. The forty-eight activities in this box offer simple, hands-on strategies to get youth connected, into their bodies, and out of their comfort zones, translating learning into applied action.

In each activity, we offer powerful debrief questions to help young people understand how they learn, what they care about, and how they can connect each experience to other moments in their lives. Using the activities in this box will deepen the sense of connection and belonging among your people, while also providing intentional strategies to build Ubuntu, which is today referred to as social-emotional skills.

  • Section One: Breaking the Ice
  • Section Two: Building Community
  • Section Three: Conversation Starters
  • Section Four: Getting Physical
  • Section Five: Solving Problems
  • Section Six: In Summary

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Experiential Activities to Develop Critical Thinkers: Middle and High School
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This activity guide contains twenty-five easy to facilitate lessons that reinforce community values, social justice and deep democracy. While these lessons are most readily applicable to middle and high school aged youth, most can be modified for elementary aged youth as well. The activities in this guide are designated into five themes. Each theme, comprised of a sequence of 5 activities, progresses across the youth development practices of safety, relationship building, youth participation, skill building and community involvement. Each theme ends in a culminating event where youth can showcase their learning and experience success. The themes included are:

  • Color My World: An Exploration of Visual Arts
  • So You Think You Can Poem?: A Series of Writing and Spoken-word Poetry Exercises
  • Identity, Class and Power: Experiential activities and conversation tools to explore social contexts and systems
  • Leaders of Today: Dynamic and challenging exercises to support teamwork, communication skills and responsibility
  • The Great Debaters: Exercises to build the skills of logic, rational argumentation, and multi-perspective thinking

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Activities to Teach Social Emotional Skills and Restorative Practices
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Thirty-five lessons with over sixty activities introduce participants to tools, strategies, and discussions to unpack conflict and re-imagine what a peaceful community looks like.

Relationships are the most critical building block for all learning. Without strong relationships, young people struggle to gain the safety and security to raise their hands, share an idea, take a risk, or try something new. Conflict is a natural part of life, and must enter any classroom group. Equipping young people with the mindset, tools, and skills to navigate conflict is an important part of social emotional development. As young people build the skills to stay in "right relationship," restorative practices can be used to restore relationships and address harm as it arises.

We offer a three-fold approach to transforming conflict.

  • Prevention - Building the social and emotional capacity of youth to identify emotions, master their thoughts, prevention and see the complexity of perceptions in any situation.
  • Intervention - Learning skills to address conflict when it arises, and embrace it as an opportunity to learn about oneself, peers, and seek win-win solutions.
  • Restoration - Developing rituals and practices to maintain connections and relationships with others during and after conflict.

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Fair Game - A Physical Fitness Curriculum
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This curriculum is designed for facilitators who want to offer a sports program aligned to youth-development principles. It is written so you can customize each lesson to any sport, such as basketball, volleyball, soccer, etc. As you lead the class each week, you will take participants through a series of icebreakers and games as well as skill-building drills. The key idea underlying this enrichment is that participants will learn to become more than just great athletes; they will also become fun, fair, compassionate team members. Remember: There is no i in team!

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Food is My Fuel - A Health, Nutrition and Cooking Curriculum
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This Enrichment curriculum will introduce participants to a new way of connecting to the food we eat. Throughout these sixteen lessons, youth will learn about health and nutrition, be exposed to various tastes, learn how to prepare their own dishes, and participate in a series of challenges. The last unit, “Leaders of Today”, is designed to help your youth find ways to take what they have learned in the course and to give back to their communities. Offering young people opportunities to teach others deepens their own learning.

  • Unit One: Building Intentional Community
  • Unit Two: Nutrition
  • Unit Three: Culinary Champ Cook-Off
  • Unit Four: Leaders of Today

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Innovators, Inventors, and Makers: A Curriculum to Envision and Create a Better World
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According to researchers, American children are getting smarter, but they are also getting less creative. Is there anything we can do about this crisis of creativity?

We tend to think of creativity as a gift, an innate ability that the lucky few are given while the rest have to make do with logic and reason. However, creativity stems from the opportunity and space to push one's thinking out of the box, to think of a problem or a challenge and discover a way to solve it, and to experiment with innovative uses for common things.

In this enrichment, participants will make intentional connections between how things work and creative innovations that change the way they see things. We experiment with recycling, upcycling, tinkering with scientific principles, and sustainability planning. As young people are invited to rethink the ordinary, they unleash their potential to be extraordinary.

  • Building Intentional Community
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Mini Makers
  • Leaders of Today

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Take a Bow: A Theater Arts Curriculum
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Welcome to Take A Bow! This sixteen-session enrichment is designed for actors and dramatic enthusiasts to build community, engage in dramatic play, build concrete acting skills, and finally put it all together to create theater for social change. Theater has long been used as a tool to bring communities and people together. In this enrichment, participants will learn how the idea of ensemble creates strong dynamics between actors and how plays can bring together communities to engage in important issues.

  • UNITS: 1. Building Intentional Community 2. Acting 101 3. Telling Stories 4. Leaders of Today
  • SAFETY AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING: 1. Building Relationships 2. Group Agreements 3. We "Play" Theater
  • SKILL BUILDING: 4. Improvisation 5. Character Development 6. Voice Projection 7. Stage Directions
  • YOUTH PARTICIPATION: 8. Rewrite the Script 9. Time for Monologues 10. Memorize Me 11. The Director's Choice 12. Lights, Camera, Action!
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: 13. It's Youth-Led! 14. What's in the Playbill 15. Looking Back to Look Forward 16. Let's Celebrate

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10 Step Implementation Guide to Deepen Organizational Practices
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This implementation guide is designed for a team of staff to go through a ten-step process to begin to institutionalize the philosophy, strategy and tools found most useful in the 2-day Building Intentional Communities Training. Each step comes with graphic organizers and activity suggestions for you and your implementation team to successfully create the organizational climate you want.

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A 10-Step Implementation Guide to Purposeful Program Design
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Create the right environment with thoughtful practices. Ten steps of intentional program design enable your program to shape the experience of your space, in these three sections:

  • Define the space
  • Set the mood through asset-based language
  • Build behavior management system

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SEED: Supervision for Effective Employee Development in a Youth Development Context
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Learn, grow, and create a stronger organization by developing a team of staff with a cohesive vision and aligned programmatic strategies, grounded in common theory and frameworks.

On average, 80% of youth serving organizations’ budgets are allocated towards staffing. Selecting, training, and nurturing the right person are critical components to thriving climates. “Using this framework helped me cut the time I spent problem-solving with staff in half. They become more self-driven and empowered in their own learning and growth.

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Leaders of Today: A Ten-Step Implementation Guide to Design Youth Leadership Programs
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This implementation guide offers a method for integrating authentic youth leadership into your program design. By creating the right conditions for learning, we can help young people stay connect to their intrinsic motivation to learn, grow, and act as leaders in the world around them. This guide will help you structure intentional ladders that allow youth to increase the level of input, autonomy, and leadership they experience. By creating experiences that allow young people to take on meaningful roles and create powerful social change, we help youth make the connections between what they want to do and what they need to learn. When young people's curiosity motivates their desire to learn, the ways we teach can dramatically shift. This guide presents a formulaic approach to this shirt.

At times our current education system sends the message that learning first happens in the classroom and that it is only in the real world that we apply our learning. We can shift this message. Our young people can be leaders today! When young people see themselves as leaders, their desire to contribute, participate, and engage increases.

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Crossing the River: A Ten-Step Implementation Guide to Design Youth Development Programs
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This implementation guide was designed to support practitioners to connect to the research, theory, and best practices developed in the past four decades on designing a youth development program.

While most youth development practitioners are drawn to this field because they have a firm belief in the limitless potential of our youth, we need simple tools to connect our passion to precision.

Youth-development theory provides a way to evaluate program design, assess where behavior issues stem from, adjust facilitation to the developmental needs of youth, and make appropriate curriculum choices. It is a powerful lens for youth-centered design.

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25 Activities to Develop a Professional Learning Community
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This simple to use collection of professional development and reflection activities are designed to support a group of colleagues to refine their shared vision and values for the type of organization they want to create. The exercises provided will help your team establish practices and strategies that support the intentional community you want to create. Research shows that groups that learn and think together are able to make more cohesive decisions as a team, which supports intentional community buildng. These activities can be facilitated in 45-90 minutes, and are ideal tools to rotate facilitation amongst a team of facilitators.

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150 Powerful & Transformative Questions
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150 questions support facilitators in constructing meaningful debrief, reflection, and discussion with groups. each card offers three themed, thought-provoking questions paired with an inspirational quote. Draw a card or two at the end of an activity, or empower students to facilitate their own reflection sessions.

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Classroom Advisory Kit
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Tools to create classroom culture, teach social emotional learning skills and integrate restorative conversations into programming.

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Growth Mindset Kit
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An approach to elevate existing program designs with cutting edge research on growth mindset and social-emotional learning.

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Summer Program Kit
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Tools to kick-start your summer program design, enrichment offerings and staff training.

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Bully Survival Kit
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Combat cliques and bullying! Building Intentional Communities Bully Survival Kit. Kit includes:

  • One-Hour Skype Training
  • Welcome Packet
  • Dismantling Cliques Strategies
  • Tools to Build a Communication Zone
  • Talk It Out (process adapted from Barbra E. Sanderson’s work)
  • Curriculum Tools:
    • Experiential Activities to Promote Group Development & Youth Leadership
    • Experiential Activities to Create a Climate of Peace, Non-Violence, and Restorative Practices
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Building Intentional Communities Starter Kit
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Transform your school or program! Building Intentional Communities Starter Kit. Best Value! Kit includes: 

  • One-Hour Skype Training
  • One-on-One Phone Consultation
  • How to Facilitation Videos
  • Downloadable Handouts/Worksheets
  • Welcome Packet
  • Curriculum Tools:
    • Experiential Activities to Develop Critical Thinkers
    • Experiential Activities to Promote Group Development & Youth Leadership
    • Experiential Activities to Explore Values
    • Icebreakers & Team Builders to Elicit Group Values
    • 150 Powerful & Transformative Questions
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Climate Blaster Kit - Developing Leadership
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Infuse your class with a shot of character! Building Intentional Communities Climate Blaster Kits, SAVE 10% if you buy all three! Kit includes:

  • Developing Leadership: Experiential Activities to Promote Group Development & Youth Leadership
  • Icebreakers & Team Builders to Elicit Group Values
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Climate Blaster Kit - Establishing Community
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Infuse your class with a shot of character! Building Intentional Communities Climate Blaster Kits, SAVE 10% if you buy all three! Kit includes:

  • Establishing Community: Experiential Activities to Develop Critical Thinkers
  • Icebreakers & Team Builders to Elicit Group Values
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Climate Blaster Kit - Reflection and Engagement
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Infuse your class with a shot of character! Building Intentional Communities Climate Blaster Kits, SAVE 10% if you buy all three! Kit includes:

  • Reflection and Engagement: Experiential Activities to Explore Values
  • Icebreakers & Team Builders to Elicit Group Values
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Climate Blaster Kits - Three Pack
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Infuse your classrooms with a shot of character! Three Pack of Building Intentional Communities Climate Blaster Kits - 10% discount when you buy all three kits.

  • Three 30-Minute Skype Overview Sessions
  • Three Welcome Packets
  • Three Climate Blaster Calendars
  • Three Sets of Evaluation Tools
  • Icebreakers & Team Builders to Elicit Group Values (one box)
  • Establishing Community: Experiential Activities to Develop Critical Thinkers (one box)
  • Developing Leadership: Experiential Activities to Promote Group Development & Youth Leadership (one box)
  • Reflection and Engagement: Experiential Activities to Explore Values (one box)
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Deepening Organizational Practices - Staff Development Kit
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  • One-Hour Skype Overview Session
  • Curriculum Tools:
    • Supervision for Effective Employee Development in a Youth Development Context
    • 25 activities to Develop a Professional Learning Community
  • Welcome Packet
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Deepening Organizational Practices - Administrator Coaching Package
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  • Three One-on-One Phone Leadership Coaching Sessions
    • Identify Opportunities for Growth
    • Build an Implementation Strategy
    • Test drive Interventions
  • Curriculum Tools:
    • 10-Step Implementation Guide to Deepen Organizational Practices
    • 10-Step Implementation Guide to Purposeful Program Design
  • Select one of these grade level sets of curriculum tools:
    • Elementary
      • Experiential Activities to Explore Values
      • Experiential Activities to Create a Climate of Peace, Non-Violence, and Restorative Practices
    • Secondary
      • Icebreakers and Team Builders to Elicit Group Values
      • Experiential Activities to Develop Critical Thinkers
  • Welcome Packet
Grade Level:
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