Once the group is built, you can invite them to some relaxing activity such as massage.
This one includes some dancing also, so you will need some music and a comfortable place where the students can lie down.
Monika Frank, France, has shared some lessons plans: 1. Design Process and Elements of Permaculture Design.
A 90 minute session. Objectives: Know different steps in design cycle / process. Know why it is important to follow a design process and that it is cyclical.
Enseñando un juego llamado “Linea de recursos”. Un resumen de la micro-lección de Mirka, por Andrew Zionts La planificación de la lección es: Objetivos
Every participant takes a piece of paper on which the name of his/her secret friend is written. You keep this in secret as your secret friend does. You can use the time of the course to make nice things for this person like prepare a hand-made present, write something nice and hide it under the pillow, and so on.
Aims: To help participants know the area Conduct a treasure hunt around the town/farm/village/center where the course is held. Hide various objects in important locations such as the closest shop, post office, bank, pharmacy, toilets, showers, swimming pool… use a map of the area to plan this.
There are lots of different ways of doing this, here is one example:
Raw vegan candies race:
In this type of treasure hunt the task is to make raw vegan candies.
Aims: Getting to know each other and creating a “gallery of heads” together (for decorating the rooms) Numbers: 10-30 participants in pairs Materials: Sheets of paper, cardboard, pencils, scissors, lamps (or candles) After a short introduction, silhouettes are made in pairs; the outline of the head of each person is copied and then cut out. Possibilities for continuation:
Aims: getting to know each other from the first day and remember the names of everybody Numbers: Any Length: 10-30 minutes depending on group size/s
Outcomes
Time
5 to 10 mins per person in the group; i.e. 10 people can take between 50 mins to 1 hours 40 mins or 20 people can take between 1 hour 40 mins to 3 hours 20 mins.
Source/links
Adapted by Rakesh from British TV show of the same name, "Call my bluff."
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