Retreat Activity

7/25/2019 Retreat Activity

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BOAT IS SINKING ACTIVITY

Materials:

Pen and Paper

Procedure:

Tell a story that they are going to have a journey in life:

Le The students make a boat out of a paper with them. If they dont know how ask

someone to teach them.

ow! write the names"#$% of your classmates that you want to be with you every

day even until college.

#. &ou observed that the boat is trying to sink so &ou need to remove ' people

from your boat to avoid sinking.

'. (ut the boat is still sinking so you need to remove again ' more people in theboat for the boat to totally )oat.

*. +o totally! the boat becomes stable but here comes the waves. ,gain you

need to remove ' more people to lighten up the boats weight and avoid from

sinking.-. ow! ' sharks try to destroy your boat but it can only be prevented by giving

' more friends to the sharks and the sharks will not bother you anymore and

go away.. ow! you successfully reached your destination but you are asked to pay for

the toll in the port but you dont have money. The coastguard said that you

can go with your friends if ever you are going to leave # friend with the

guard.ow! there are only ' people left in the boat. /hy did you choose to let him0her stay

with you1

/hat are his0her characteristics why why chose him0her1 "write it down on the boat%

Lastly! give that boat to the person you chose to be with until you graduate.

,ctivity 2'

/rite on my (ack

3aterials:

Paper and Pen

Tape


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Procedure:

#. 4n a black bond paper write your name.'. Paste0tape a bond paper at your back.*. The facilitator will say 54 then it is the signal to roam around and let

someone write on your bond paper regarding your attitude! behaviour or

anything whether positive or negative.-. ,fter minutes! stop and get the paper at your back and try to re)ect if

the characteristics are same as yours..

ACTIVITY #3

NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION LINES

I. To help participants become aware of their non6verbal communication.

II. To reali7e the importance of non6verbal communication III. To help establish a

trust relationship between participants.

P849;ve minutes

Physical +etting 6 large room

3aterials 6 blackboard and chalk

umber of Participants 6 unlimited number of groups Process

,% 5roup members are divided into three lines of e?ual numbers.

(% They are instructed that they are going to get some type of emotional message

across to the person directly behind them! passing the message through the line to

the last person in the line. The last person will then write that message on a

blackboard "or newspring% behind him. 4ne catch the message must be

communicated non6verbally! using only your eyes! face and hands. @ample: themessage is AIBm happyA . . . the action could be a broad smile. There should be no

talking whatsoever. o acknowledgements that a person has the message wrong or

correct.

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#% Cave the people who are not trying to receive the message at that time face

the blackboard and have them turn around one at a time with a tap of their

shoulder.

9% ,fter the last person in the last line to >nish completes the message on the

blackboard! each person at the start of the line begins another message until a

series of eight messages are completed.

;% The winning group will be the line with the most messages correct on the

blackboard. 34TI4,L

3++,5:Cappiness6joyDriendliness+adnesseedLoneliness

,ngerDrustrationTensionDear9ontentedness

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