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Experiential Learning – Spoons

Group Size: Any Time Needed: 15 to 20 minutes Goal: To uncover hidden issues and understand challenging behaviors Audience: Teens, Parents, Children, Couples Special Considerations: You will need to be very clear on instructions in order for this activity to work. With two facilitators, one should arrange the spoons and represent the number while the […]

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Experiential Learning – Stop and Smell the Flowers

Group Size: 1 to 50+ Time Needed: 20 minutes Goal: To see if what participants say their values are match up with how they actually spend their time Audience: Couples, Parents, Singles, Teens Special Considerations: This can be an emotional experience if people discover that their lives are out of balance. This can be a […]

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Marriage, Relationships and Health

The aims of this broad collection are to help readers understand the findings of soundly conducted research about what is currently known about this subject, to stimulate additional high quality research to fill in the gaps, and to encourage the design and testing of innovative interventions in health care. We wish to thank the participants […]

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Experiential Learning – The Most Important Thing

Group Size: 1 to 25 Time Needed: 15 to 20 minutes Goal: To encourage participants to think about what is really important in their lives and set priorities accordingly Audience: Couples, Parents, Teens, Singles Special Considerations: This activity may force participants to become noticeably uncomfortable prioritizing elements in their life which they may have never […]

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Group Cohesion – Sugar Grams

Group Size: 11 to 50 Time Needed: 10 minutes Goal: Encouragement and fun, helps with goodbyes Audience: Couples, Children, Teens, Singles, Parents Special Considerations: Bring your ear plugs! This activity can get loud. Resources Needed: One small “post it” note per participant One large balloon per participant Step-by-Step Instructions Pass out one post it note […]

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Experiential Learning – Hands Of Hope

Group Size: Any Time Needed: 15 to 20 minutes Goal: To build group cohesion by sharing common hopes and dreams in relation to children or marriage and help participants focus on what they really want in the long term Audience: Couples, Parents, Teens Special Considerations: This completed exercise can be referred to frequently throughout the […]

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Experiential Learning – A Different Place

Group Size: 11 to 25 Time Needed: 20 minutes or more Goal: Gain understanding of individual differences and the unique challenges that each person faces in life. Audience: Couples, Teens, Parents, Children, Singles Special Considerations: May need to assist some participants inflate a balloon Resources Needed: One balloon per person, different sizes of balloons, masking […]

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Experiential Learning – Label Game

Group Size: Any (no more than 15 volunteers) Time Needed: 20 minutes Goal: To create awareness of how labels affect people, to understand self-fulfilling prophecy, and to grasp how self esteem is built and destroyed Audience: Couples, Parents, Singles, Teens, Children Special Considerations: Wait until the group has met several times before you complete this […]

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Experiential Learning – All By Myself Balloon Game

Group Size: 11 to 25 Time Needed: 1 to 10 minutes Goal: Explore how it feels to handle problems on your own Audience: Couples, Teens, Parents, Children, Singles Special Considerations: May need to assist some participants inflate their balloons Resources Needed: One balloon per person Step-by-Step Instructions Ask participants to divide into pairs. Give each […]

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