Innovative Activities

As of the past week we have been learning about innovative activities and how to facilitate them. Facilitation helps recreation participants evaluate the experience, consider the impact of their actions, anticipate consequences, understand how they have grown and how to overcome barriers. The process consists of a diagnosis of how the activity will help a client, what the design of the activity will look like, how to deliver the activity to its full potential, debrief the client on what they've learned and got from the experience, and detachment as a way to separate from the client and go your own way. In discussions creating the atmosphere is the key, make participants feel comfortable where they are and who they are doing it with. In the debrief state it easiest to use a funneling technique which starts with broad questions and focuses them into more specific questions such as summation and application.  This all leads to the full values contract. Think positive, think mutual respect, think about the context of the class, anything goes for brainstorm and clarifying to whats important.Majority rules. Leaving in the range of learning by the words of Confucius "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand."