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Experiential Activities to Introduce Identity, Culture, Class, Gender, and Inclusion
Activity | Handout |
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Book Club | |
Popcorn and Politics | |
Food for Thought | |
Understanding Privilege | |
Cycle of Oppression | |
Triggers | |
Try a Different Tactic | |
Unpack Your Story | |
The Healing Circle | |
Pieces of Me | |
Mobile Time Lines | |
My Roots | |
Mini Me | |
Living Monologue | |
Double Take | |
Message Detective | |
Fortune Teller | |
Princess Boy | |
Gendernauts | |
Gender Studies | |
Family Flower Garden | |
That's So Gay | |
Ally Endings | |
Community Kite | |
R(E)AD THIS | |
Set the Table | |
Culture Cocoon | |
Mosaic Self-Portraits | |
Star-Bellied Sneetches | |
Money Can't Buy Me | |
Share the Wealth | |
Every Great Country | |
Cause and Effect | |
Unsung Heroes | |
Strings of Justice |

Experiential Activities to Develop Critical Thinkers
Activity | Handout |
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People Bingo | |
Girls vs. Boys | |
Star Bellied Sneetches | |
Communication Maps | |
The Trees and the Worms | |
World Changers |

Experiential Activities to Explore Values for Elementary and Middle School Participants
Activity | Handout |
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Community Values | |
Behavior Bucks | |
Responsibility Roles | |
Slam Books | |
Self Care Medallion | |
Chef Du Jour | |
Serve Me Up | |
My Eyes, Your Hands | |
Big Rocks | |
Green Team | |
Who Dunnit | |
Life Choices | |
Dream Catchers | |
Magazine Expo | |
Values Extract | |
Awareness Ribbons | |
1000 Paper Cranes |

Experiential Activities to Promote Group Development and Youth Leadership
Activity | Handout |
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Twisters and Teasers | |
The Sound of Silence | |
Partner Up | |
Animal Concert | |
Famous Pairs and Trios | |
The Missing Piece | |
Quotables | |
Postcard Parcels | |
Writings on the Wall | |
Survey Says | |
Perspective Pie | |
Fist to Five | |
My 2 Cents | |
Issue Mapping | |
YouTube It | |
Certified Friend | |
Aloha | |
Golden Globes | |
E-mail Clouds |

Creative, Resourceful & Whole Experiential Exercises to Build Awareness, Transform Perspectives, and Make Choices
Activity | Handout |
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Dinner Party | |
I'm the One Who… | |
Make a Date | |
Stepping Stones | |
My Iceberg | |
Magazine Expo! | |
Polaroids | |
Body Maps | |
My Inner Truth | |
Values Extract | |
Graduation Speech | |
Perspective Board | |
Crystal Ball | |
Email Clouds | |
Big Rocks | |
Balancing the Wheel | |
Catching Dreams | |
Let It Go | |
Bookends | |
Love Languages | |
Inside Team | |
Picture It | |
Shadowboxing | |
Peer Coaching | |
Double Emotion |

Icebreakers and Team Builders to Elicit Group Values
Activity | Handout |
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J.O.Y. | |
Life Map | |
Speed Dating | |
True for Me | |
Human Collectables | |
Head Heart Feet | |
Lunch to Go |

Activities to Teach Social Emotional Skills and Restorative Practices
Activity | Handout |
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Gateway Behaviors | |
Wanted: For Disturbing the Peace | |
Feelings Create Actions | |
Peaceometers | |
Good News! | |
Emotional Mirrors | |
HALT | |
I Just Called, to Say I'm Sorry | |
Illusions of Many | |
Trigger Happy | |
What's on your Mind? | |
Does this Band-Aid fit that wound? | |
Restoration in Action | |
Walk That Community Talk | |
Conflicting Approaches | |
Win-Win or Bust | |
Little Miss Muffet's Needs | |
Little Red Riding Hood Negotiates |

Experiential Activities to Develop Critical Thinkers: Middle and High School
Activity | Handout |
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Animal Wisdom | |
Mad Lib | |
Mosaic Self Portraits | |
Personal Histories | |
Power Shuffle | |
Power Chart | |
The Brown Bag | |
Life Happens! | |
Take a Stand | |
Beyond Black and White |

10 Step Implementation Guide to Deepen Organizational Practices
Activity | Handout |
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Step 3 | |
Step 6 | |
Step 7 | |
Step 9 | |
Step 10 | |
Quarterly | |
Overview |

A 10-Step Implementation Guide to Purposeful Program Design
Activity | Handout |
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Planning for Pitfalls | |
Step 1 | |
Step 2 | |
Step 3: Create a Mobile Classroom | |
Step 5: Interrupt Gateway Behaviors | |
Step 7 | |
Step 9 | |
Step 10 |

SEED: Supervision for Effective Employee Development in a Youth Development Context
Activity | Handout |
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Step 2: Assess Yourself | |
Step 3: Learn Your Staff's Decision-Making Styles | |
Step 4: Assess Your Staff | |
Step 5: Workplan Observation Matrix | |
Step 8: Integrate a Systems Coaching Process | |
Step 10: Conduct a 360 Degree Survey |

25 Activities to Develop a Professional Learning Community
Activity | Handout |
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Values & Agreements | |
Taking a Stand | |
Coaching Scenarios | |
Principles in Action | |
Mad Libs | |
Giving Feedback | |
Leadership Compass | |
Conocimientos | |
Staff Debates | |
Empowering vs. Enabling | |
Brag Bag | |
Jocks 'n' Geeks | |
Life Happens! |

Food is My Fuel - A Health, Nutrition and Cooking Curriculum
Activity | Handout |
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Foodie Zines | |
Who Am I? | |
Fill the Tank | |
Balloon Pop | |
Fruity Dessert | |
My Portion Plate | |
Apples or Onions | |
Culinary Teams | |
The Chef's Hats | |
Veggie Art | |
Jelly, Butter, and Peanuts | |
Project-Planning Arrow | |
Recipe for a Good Friend | |
The Learning Map |

Fair Game - A Physical Fitness Curriculum
Activity | Handout |
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Name Challenge | |
Find Me! | |
Our Values | |
Athlete Charts | |
Scoreboard | |
Team Trading Cards | |
Tournament of Champions | |
Project Planning Arrow | |
Foul or Slam Dunk | |
End of Season | |
The Learning Map |

Crossing the River: A Ten-Step Implementation Guide to Design Youth Development Programs
Activity | Handout |
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Integrate Youth Development into Program Design | |
Initiate Community Engagement |

Leaders of Today: A Ten-Step Implementation Guide to Design Youth Leadership Programs
Activity | Handout |
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Create Your Stance | |
Build Leadership Profiles | |
Avoid Common Pitfalls | |
Understand Youth Leadership | |
Integrate a Social Justice Analysis | |
Begin with the End in Mind |

Icebreakers and Team Builders To Build Community
Activity | Handout |
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Paper-Plate Hat Tricks | |
Raffle Ticket | |
Circling Up | |
Sign Up Here | |
Dare, Double Dare | |
Wear Your Attitude | |
Team Résumé | |
Affirmations | |
Off the Grid | |
New Planet | |
Let the Homies Talk | |
Letters Home | |
When You Are in My Seat |

Innovators, Inventors, and Makers: A Curriculum to Envision and Create a Better World
Activity | Handout |
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The Learning Map | |
From Scratch | |
Homemaker's Marshmallow | |
Electricity | |
Potato Power | |
Lemon Light | |
Physics | |
Balloon-Propelled Car | |
Solving Real World Problems | |
Mythological Super-Creature | |
It's Youth-Led! | |
Blue Skies Thinking | |
Project-Planning Arrow | |
Let's Celebrate | |
A "Little" Thank-You |

Take a Bow: A Theater Arts Curriculum
Activity | Handout |
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Unit 1 Building Intentional Community | |
Building Relationships | |
We "Play" Theater | |
Unit 2 Acting 101 | |
Improvisation | |
Character Development | |
Voice Projection | |
Unit 3 Telling Stories | |
Lights, Camera, Action! | |
Time For Monologues | |
Unit 4 Leaders of Today | |
It’s Youth-Led | |
Let's Celebrate |