Fall 2024/Session One: Orientation and Community Building

 Session One: Theme: “Orientation and Community Building”

 

Welcome and Introductions; (all)

 

Agenda Preview: (RGR)

 

Zoom reminders: (JA)

Tools Checkin Pre-test (JA)

 

 

Community Agreements: (RGR/JA scribe))

 

 

Guided Meditation: (JA) Link to site

 

 

Gathering: (JA) “Something I would like to learn from this workshop is…”

 

 

Rap: (RGR)  Course review focus on Transforming Power, NV Communication, Depolarization                              Conflict Resolution, Empathy

 

 

 

Exercises:  “Adjective Name Exercise’ (JA)

                      

                        

Light and Lively: (RGR)

Exercise: Affirmation: RGR

Exercise: In Common   (JA)

Closing: (JA)

 

 

 Reflections and Toolbox: RGR/JA scribe

 

Resources:

  • Video,“ When You hear the Word Violence”  Link to Video

• "5 minute meditation you can do anywhere," Goodful, Link to video

"People fail to get along because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not really communicated with each other."

                    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from p. 67,  Basic Workshop Manual,  AVP - USA, 2023