comfort agreement is Use this feedback to referenced or at the adjust and reiterate for end. the next session. GOALS, AGENDA, & ACTIVITIES Be about what will be covered in Consider: What do you want individuals to ideas and concepts from both giving and the group. Identify the overall group get out of being in a group? What will receiving activities together. goals and objectives as well as the people learn and gain? Why does the Capturing Insights agenda for individual sessions. session take 2 or 3 or 5 hours? Why do we As soon as you complete an activity, need to write things down? Why draw Articulating a vision for why everybody is visually capture the experience. This things? How will each exercise provide present and explaining the goals of each people understand and see what they just insight, self-reflection and joy for group exercise during the workshop, can help shared. members? Etc... relieve anxiety from uncertainty. Make ideas visible, tangible, & persistent. Try to format a group session with a Although learning to accept uncertainty Words can quickly get lost so write down beginning, middle, and end. can be a key skill in recovering from or draw what people say on large sheets mental health challenges, try to limit Balance giving activities, you offer or flip chart paper. When writing down uncertainty anxiety as much as possible information or insights, with receiving people’s ideas, write what they say word during a workshop. activities, where the group provides for word or have participants write and personal insights and effort. Then follow draw then post it on the walls. This helps up with a synthesizing activity to bring the people feel validated and important.
comfort agreement is referenced or at the end. Use this feedback to adjust and reiterate for the next session. GOALS, AGENDA, & ACTIVITIES Be about what will be covered in the group. Identify the overall group goals and objectives as well as the agenda for individual sessions. Articulating a vision for why everybody is present and explaining the goals of each exercise during the workshop, can help relieve anxiety from uncertainty. Although learning to accept uncertainty can be a key skill in recovering from mental health challenges, try to limit uncertainty anxiety as much as possible during a workshop. Consider: What do you want individuals to get out of being in a group? What will people learn and gain? Why does the session take 2 or 3 or 5 hours? Why do we need to write things down? Why draw things? How will each exercise provide insight, self-reflection and joy for group members? Etc... Try to format a group session with a beginning, middle, and end. Balance giving activities, you offer information or insights, with receiving activities, where the group provides personal insights and effort. Then follow up with a synthesizing activity to bring the ideas and concepts from both giving and receiving activities together. Capturing Insights As soon as you complete an activity, visually capture the experience. This people understand and see what they just shared. Make ideas visible, tangible, & persistent. Words can quickly get lost so write down or draw what people say on large sheets or flip chart paper. When writing down people’s ideas, write what they say word for word or have participants write and draw then post it on the walls. This helps people feel validated and important.
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