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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Summary of 14 Nov 2008 Meeting on GL Workshop

GL Workshop on 6 Dec 2008 (Sat), 9.00am-5.00pm

Facilitators: Bro Ang Isenlim and Sis Lee Sea Ming

Personality Test (1 1/2 hrs)
Objective:
- let them know more about themselves
- let them know what to identify in their group members

Plan:
1. Do test personally (w/o raising hand)
2. Tell them that we will put their "styles" on the board (let everybody know we are which styles)
3. Analyse (more emphasis needed)
- the grid
- explain general characteristics(must relate to GL skills), strengths, weaknesses,
4. peer evaluation test (2nd part)

Disclaimer:
- there is no good or bad
- everybody should work towards the centre of the grid
- everyone could possess the four different styles
- resource is copyrighted
- there are many types of personality test

Logistics:
-slides
- projector
- photocopy the personality test notes (2 copies)
- one board to put participants' names on it
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Facilitation Skills (2 hours)

Objective:
1. Things to do during Dharma Camp
- stimulate giving ideas/opinions for Dharma Circle, Skit, Feedback session
- create ambient to bond-fun-connect with group members
2. Practice
3. Share our experience in concrete examples

Plan:
1. responsibilities of GLs [10min]
2. Practice (Facilitators observe)
3. Debrief (how they feel; what is well done/what not. Why?; how to improve)
- compare with personality test
- how to stimulate more feedbacks
- what is the group dynamics
- what are the feelings of members? how to improve?
4. Senior share experience [30min]

Ideas:
- transfer family across river
- ask difficult questions, scenario

Logistics:
patung for family

2 comments:

TRI-AN said...

I am off from work this coming Monday and can thus attend the meeting at 7pm, meeting at City Hall MRT station.

Kwek said...

we need to make a slight change to the timetable too... i'll come up with something before the meeting...