Facilitative vs. Non-Facilitative Responses

Q: What is the one thing on which you and your best friend disagree?

• Good things!
• Business
• Activity: Four Corners
• Facilitative vs. Non-Facilitative Responses

Facilitative Responses and Decision Making

Q: What does Johnny mean when he says, "That dumb teacher always picks on me!"

• Humor!
• Listening and Facilitative Responses
• Decision Making

Developmental Stages

Q: At what age did you "grow" the most?  This doesn't necessarily refer to physical growth.

• Developmental stages
• Skit related to developmental ages
• Questions related to each stage

Understanding Behavior

Obj: To determine the behaviors and feelings manifested in various age groups.

Q: Describe the most awkward time in your early or late childhood development.

• Debrief 20 Things
• Stages of Development

Group Dynamics and Building Trust

Q: What is your immediate reaction to two friends/relatives engaged in verbal conflict?  Is there something better you could do?

•  Human knot activity (2 groups)
• Twenty things worksheet

Communication, Listening, and Facilitation Skills

Q: How is the best way to "actively listen"?

• Good things!
•  Finish up Goals of Misbehavior
• Active listening (Activity: Listen Carefully)
• Handout: Facilitative Responses/Techniques

Influences on our Behavior

Obj: To better understand the consequences of our behavior.

Q: Write down the names of two people who have most influenced your life.  One you must know personally.  Why were they so influential?

• Influences on our behavior
• Positive reinforcement (Activity: Positive Reinforcement Game)
• Handout: Encouragement
• Handout: Four Goals of Misbehavior

Emotional Trust

Q: What keeps you from trusting others?

• Activity: Emotional Trust: Sharing Your Feelings
• Handout: Productive Group Characteristics
• Looking inward: self awareness discussion

Communication

Q: What is the hardest thing for you to communicate?  Why?

• Delivering clear messages
• Reading faces

Non-verbal Communication

Q: Is it possible not to communicate?  How?

• Good things!
• Business
• Activity: 100 Wishes
• Non-verbal Communication

Communication, Listening, Facilitation Skills

Obj: To understand factors that foster open communication and to allow peer helpers to meet and talk to students they don't know.

Q: What is the most effective way to welcome a stranger?

• Humor!
• A bit more about the nature of people
• Verbal communication
• Non-verbal communication

Understanding Others

Obj: To understand the nature of people (or at least begin looking at the nature of people!)

Q: Where are you going?

• A few concepts about the peoples' nature
• Activity: Welcoming strangers