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I hope that everybody has had a chance to maybe go over this with a couple friends and that the explanation made sense. Once you start working through it - everything becomes quite clear. I first experienced this activity with a management team from work. We went to a day long cooperate team building session. I struggled to get much out of it beyond this activity. I think what I learned that day was that cooperate team building is a very different beast than team building with youth. Youth have a greater ability to change and adjust to their situations - which sounds a little backwards because you'd think that as adults who have developed faculties and a greater vision for their environments would be able to make the changes necessary to be more efficient and more successful. When I look at my own experiences working in and with adult teams - this is not the typical case. We're more set in our ways of doing things and we really, really don't like to be told we're wro...

Hey Peeps! Sorry for the lapse in time. I've been on the road for the last two weeks and really should have pre-posted more than I did. I've tried to resist the assumption that everywhere in this world has internet access...such was not the case this last week. Here's a new activity! It's a really fun one to play around with and works well with a number of different ages for a whole bunch of contexts. I started using it after I went to a management team building session. I always have to laugh at myself when I'm put into situations where I'm part of the team rather than the facilitator - especially now after facilitating for so many years. I don't really like being facilitated. And though I still love learning - I'm becoming less and less tolerant of being facilitated THROUGH the learning experience. I think that's something that occurs with age. We become know-it-alls or something. What about you? Do you react to facilitators the same way that...