Praise for this book from people who lead groups, teach classes, and facilitate meetings:
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
Senior Research Scientist
Harvard School of Public Health
Moving Beyond Icebreakers goes far beyond activities and games. Part I explores the fears, hopes, and anxieties that leaders may have about using "activities" in meetings and groups. It is the clearest, most coherent explanation of why, how, and when to use activities that I have ever read. Part II is a creative conglomeration of interactive possibilities to help group members bond in effective ways. For practitioners in teaching, social work, administrative, and community settings, this book will be a terrific addition to your personal and professional library.
- Susan Rice, DSW
Department of Social Work
California State University at Long Beach
These interactive techniques are a natural fit for the classroom. They are engaging and fun. They promote caring and lead to less isolation. A variety of behavioral issues are addressed while students build confidence and build their skills.
- Rusty Young
High School Teacher, Boston Public Schools
This book is both practical and hopeful. Everyone should read Moving Beyond Icebreakers to save us from endless meetings and dysfunctional group process!
- Gil G. Noam, Ed.D., Ph.D. (Habil)
Harvard University
Mr. Pollack has written a comprehensive manual for designing, conducting and evaluating interactive meetings, classes, and group exercises. This book is packed with ideas, examples, advice, and how-to-do-it guidelines for group facilitators. Moving Beyond Icebreakers is an invaluable resource for more participatory, spirited and productive meetings.
- Lee Staples
Clinical Professor of Social Work
Boston University
Moving Beyond Icebreakers is a splendid presentation of techniques that enhance group cohesiveness and productivity. Any agency or institution practicing the interactive group exercises outlined in this book will be enriched. I highly recommend it.
- Alvin F. Poussaint, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
and Judge Baker Children's Center, Boston MA
Moving Beyond Icebreakers presents the powerful work of Teen Empowerment and its potential to develop and nurture youth leadership. The Interactive Meeting Format as described in Moving Beyond Icebreakers is the foundation to building communities.
- Robert S. Peterkin, Director
Urban Superintendents Program
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Moving Beyond Icebreakers offers an approach to gathering information in ways that provide a variety of vantage points as a group engages in interactions that are centered on a common purpose. The approach grows out of Stanley Pollack's longstanding experience in developing city youth into masterful facilitators. The lessons from his experience with young people are definitely worth learning.
- Janice Jackson
Boston College Lynch School of Education
Former Deputy Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools
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