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This book is for anyone who has ever volunteered to lead a seminar or run a workshop, or for anyone who has ever been cajoled into chairing a meeting or leading a group. Novice facilitators may recognize the anxiety that accompanies the first encounter with an assembled group. Even seasoned veterans often wonder how to excite and engage their audience more effectively and more often. The exercises in this book will deliver these results. Designed to be used in a variety of settings, these exercises will benefit all professional and personal organizations, from business meetings to adult education seminars to therapy groups. They may also be adapted for use with various age groups, ability levels, and diverse backgrounds. In order to meet the needs of busy facilitators, the exercises are written in simple, accessible language, and delineate clear objectives, materials and time required, as well as optimal group size. Even the implementation of just 3-4 exercises will lead to improved group performance and enjoyment. An entire section is also devoted to evaluation, and how to implement creative formats for evaluating groups. Social workers, rehabilitation counselors, criminologists, psychologists, nurses, educators, human resource and business managerial staff, community leaders.

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• 1 Introduction
• Using This Book
• Purposes of Interactive Exercises
• Factors in Choosing Exercises
• Questions to Ask Yourself as You Choose an Exercise
• Role of the Facilitator
• Techniques to Accompany Interactive Exercises
• Considerations When Working with Diverse Groups
• 2 Ice Breakers
• Short Division: Managing Large Groups by Subdividing
• Introductions
• Who's Done It?
• Getting Acquainted
• The Round
• The Game of the Name
• What's in Your Name?
• The Baggage Department
• I'll Tell You if You'll Tell Me
• The First Blush
• Singing in the Rain
• 3 Enhancing Group Functioning
• Let's Get Together
• Elephant in the Meeting Room
• What's Your Screen?
• Centre Stage
• The Belt
• Fish Bowl
• 1 Fish Bowl
• 2 Solution Circle
• Dream Catcher
• 4 Middle Phase and Transitions
• Breathing Lessons
• Simple Soothers
• Relaxation Script
• Wake up! Shake up! Mysterious Happenings
• Truth and Lies
• Temperature Check
• Positive Gossiping
• Recalling the Past
• 5 Teaching Concepts and Developing Skills
• The Feelings Charade
• Pick a Word, Any Word
• Complete the Sentence
• The Launching
• Freewriting
• The Participant as Teacher
• Chinese Practice
• Mind Reading
• Dirty Words
• Simulation for Stimulation
• 6 Values
• Privacy Zone
• Miracle Workers
• Three Characters
• Catastrophe Strikes! What'sMostImportant?
• The Ideal Pie Deal
• Where Do I Stand?
• 7 Self-Enhancement
• Defining Your Space
• Boundaries
• The Collage
• Where Do I Feel?
• Off-the-Wall Solutions
• Happy Affirmation to You! Where Do I Go from Here?
• How Do I Love?
• Weeding Your Garden
• Self-Valuing
• Spider Web
• Show Me a Lifeline! Showing Your Stuff
• 8 Endings
• Types of Endings
• Self-Exploration
• Three Wishes
• Surprise Box
• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
• Self-Exploration
• Symbolic Review
• Graduation Day
• Party Time
• 9 Evaluations
• Alternative Forms of Evaluation
• Evaluative Questions
• Creative Formats for Acquiring Feedback
• Group Evaluation
• A Star Is Born!