Moving Beyond Icebreakers
Alan Khazei
CEO and Co-Founder, City Year
Moving Beyond Icebreakers is the encyclopedia of interactive group activities. This book raises expectations for what meetings should do and feel like, and then provides the means to fulfill them.
Charles Deutsch
Harvard School of Public Health
See Interactive Exercises in Action!
Check out some short videos that illustrate groups working with some of the exercises you'll find in Moving Beyond Icebreakers.
- The Human Knot
- Name Wave
- Warm-up Questions
- Bag Toss
- Zip Zap Zup with Foot-Stamp
- Wind Blows with Word
- Concentric Circles
- Make It Up: Paper Chase
- Wordstorm
- Evaluation
Tools for Transforming Your Teaching and Group Facilitation
Moving Beyond Icebreakers is a groundbreaking resource for teachers, group facilitators, social workers, trainers, youth workers, community organizers, department heads, corporate managers . . . for anyone who runs meetings, large or small, with participants of any age or demographic makeup.
If you facilitate groups and your goals include
- Team building
- Group building
- Creative process
- Lively sessions
- Productive meetings (or classes)
then Moving Beyond Icebreakers is for you.
Moving Beyond Icebreakers contains 440 pages packed with insight and ideas about building community, engaging students in learning, and making meetings work. It describes an innovative meeting format and documents over 300 interactive exercises (not just "icebreakers") that enable you to
- Achieve group goals
- Build relationships
- Resolve group problems
- Teach, lead, motivate, and inspire
The first 130 pages describe how to use "icebreakers" and other interactive methods to help group members make decisions, create new ideas, solve problems, resolve conflicts, and understand new concepts. In these pages you will find a five-part meeting structure that you can use to become an expert facilitator, following an approach that engages both youth and adults in meeting the group's goals. You will also find detailed agendas, lesson plans, and scenarios that show how this approach works in the real world.
Moving Beyond Icebreakers is a practical guide to group facilitation and an invaluable resource for community building in a variety of settings.
It is beautifully designed and enhanced by numerous illustrations that will make you laugh while making their point.
See the sample chapters and table of contents on this site to give you a good idea of what you'll find in Moving Beyond Icebreakers, then
place your order today!
Illustration by Nick Thorkelson
Who Is this Book for?
- Teachers and youth workers: Moving Beyond Icebreakers helps you engage hard-to-reach youth and students of all ages, giving them vehicles for participation that allow them to operate from a position of strength.
- Social workers: Moving Beyond Icebreakers provides tools for group building and individual growth -- creating bonds of trust, addressing dysfunctional group dynamics, increasing group members' level of reflection, and leading to change in the lives of the individuals you are trying to reach.
- Managers: Moving Beyond Icebreakers gives you the tools you need for genuine team building -- to inspire your staff to make difficult decisions and to invest the energy needed to implement these decisions successfully.
- Organizers: Moving Beyond Icebreakers provides an approach that can quickly build community, clarify difficult and complex issues, invest group members in the mission, and help the group make decisions and plan for effective action.
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Moving Beyond Icebreakers 101
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