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Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Birthday Isen!!

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to the youngest-looking-person-here,

祝你早日成佛!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Summary of meeting 22nd October

Firstly: PHOTOS PLEASE! Those people who brought cameras on that day! If not then this place will be only about BS work stuff, and look so not-fun.

The original theme was supposed to be TEAM-BUILDING.

But we have selected one specific skill to hone in on: FACILITATION skills. The rest of the programme will be built around this.

Rough timetable:

9.00am-9.30am----Ice-breaker (Sea Ming/ Isen)
9.30am-10.00am---Video and Intro (Hidayat/ Robby)
10.00am-10.45am--Self-awareness: Personality Test (Isen/ Albert)
10.45am-11.00am--Songs and Dance I (Sea Ming /Johnathern)
11.00am-12.30pm--Workshop I: the Mafia game (Kwek)
12.30pm-1.30pm---Lunch (and sharing Past Camp Experience)
1.30pm-2.00pm----Songs and Dance II (Sea Ming /Johnathern)
2.00pm-3.30pm----Workshop II: Factilitation for Camps (Cindy)
3.30pm-5.00pm----Background of Camp and Dharma QnA (All invited)

So the different facilitators for the different segments can get together to come up with a (concrete) summary of what they will do for each segment and post it on the blog before the next meeting which is 7 Nov (Friday) evening.

ISEN is hereby ARROWED to arrange amongst us for the time and place of the next meeting!! Yeah!! Taiji!!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

GL Workshop for Dharma Camp 2008

Heyo people

I've contacted four of you (Isen, Seaming, Cindy, Albert) about this workshop thing.

Basically, it's to put together a workshop custom-made to train Group Leaders for Dharma Camps.

I've discussed with some of you and the 30th MC, and so the theme is TEAM BUILDING.

We have to fix one date (in November after Seaming hands in here thesis?? When you finish?) to meet up to settle the details and allocation. Jacinta may join us, but it's kinda near the exams then. Let's fix the date here in this blog.

Also, we can bounce ideas around in the days leading to the meeting. Use the comments section to brainstorm on what we can do.

Firstly, I was thinking that the focus of this half-day workshop should be:

10% Theoretical knowledge on team-building. A mini-lecture on group dynamics etc.
30% Practical hands-on activities learning about team building. Possibly some game or something teaching about communication or making use of people's strengths?
30% Self-discovery. The only thing I seem to remember from those GL workshops were those personality tests. In discovering their own natural roles in groups, they may be more sensitive in identifying character types in their Camp Groups.
30% Bonding among the Group Leaders themselves so that they have coordination and cohesiveness to leade the camp. This can be through games, or teaching our BS songs with actions, etc.

Hope to see an active discussion kekekekke...