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

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

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

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)

• 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

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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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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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-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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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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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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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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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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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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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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