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Diversity / Anti-Oppression
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Strategy
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Team-building |
Nonviolent Action for Social Change
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Third-party Nonviolent Intervention
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Making Better Trainings
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Meeting and Dialogue Facilitation
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Other...
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Team-building |
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Ankle Walk
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| | A simple group challenge: get across the room as one line together -- with a twist -- keep your ankles together. This adventure-based learning activity can surface group issues around leadership, decision-making, and group conflict.
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I am the center...
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| | Whenever a new group forms people are always curious: Who else is in the room? This kinesthetic exercise allows peoples curiousity to show up and to learn about who is in the room. And, does it in a way that gets people working together.
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Task and Maintenance: What makes groups work?
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| | This tool is a quick, easy tool that is effective at helping groups understand the different roles in making groups work: different leadership skills. Its based on a piece of feminist theory that understands different leadership skills: Task and Maintenance.
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Fishbowl: “Worst meeting ever…”
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| | Groups can love sharing stories of their worst meetings! Here participants get to act out the worst meeting ever, and then what a good meeting looks like. It's light and playful, and a great way to get into a discussion about how to make group meetings work well.
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Team Types
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| | Team types is a straightforward tool for participants to learn about themselves through identifying within four different categories, each representing different aspects of how people may operate in group settings.
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Stepping Stones
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| | This tool out of the field of "adventure-based learning" is an effective team-building exercise. We've had success with it in Thailand, Burma, Russia, Canada and more -- that's why it's one of our favorites.
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Puzzle Squares
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| | A tool from the field of adventure-based learning (ABL), puzzle squares is a group challenge that helps to look at leadership issues and communication within a team. The goal is simple enough -- create a square -- but the process elicits key conversation about how decisions get made in groups, and how to communicate effectively.
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