| Month |
Year
1 |
Year
2 |
Year
3 |
Year
4 |
| August |
• Orientation covering Bonner
101, community partner introductions, community/team
buildling |
• Back-to-school refresher |
• Back-to-school refresher
including look at relevant courses for juniors |
• Back-to-school refresher
including look at senior year capstone |
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| September |
• Introduction to Effective
Communication |
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• Community Asset Mapping part
1 |
• Budgeting |
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| October |
• Community Asset Mapping part
2 (involving partner) |
• Introduction to Effective
Communication: Do You Hear Me? |
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• Introduction to Spiritual
Exploration |
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• Community Asset Mapping part
3 (involving campus assessment) |
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• Get-Out-the-Vote |
• Evaluation |
| November |
• Time Management: Managing
by Calendar |
• Conflict Resolution: Steps
for Handling Interpersonal Dynamics |
• Building Coalitions |
• Tuesdays with Morrie Discussion |
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• Time Management: Managing
by Calendar Follow Up (planners) |
• Facilitation 101: Roles of
Effective Facilitators |
• Building Coalitions (part
2: application for campus project) or Grant Writing |
• Personal Vision: Creating
One |
| December |
• Setting Service Objectives |
• Group feedback session (modeling
previous trainings) |
• Vocation: “The Bridge Builder”
poem and reflective discussion |
• Personal Vision 2: Follow
up and sharing & Building Shared Vision |
| December/
January |
• Annual Retreat integrating: |
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• Community building (move
diversity workshops from other areas or add new ones) |
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• Common commitments |
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• Reflection & visioning |
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• Most recommended: Cover Story,
Four Corners (changing questions), River Stories/Introduction
to Community Building, Leadership Compass |
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| January |
• Vocation: “Dead Poet’s Society”
film clip |
• Four Corners: Building Appreciation
for Diverse Ideas and Dialogue |
• Citizenship: Rights, Responsibilities
& Struggles or Introduction to Social Justice (similar) |
• Finding Your Vocational Fit
Worksheet |
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• Service-Based Reflection:
How It Supports Making Service Meaningful |
• Lobbying 101 |
• Leadership Compass or Meyers-Briggs/Work
Style Inventory |
• Resume Writing & Interviewing
Skills |
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February |
• Fishbowl Discussion: Defining
Your Communities |
• Building a Personal Network |
• Power Mapping |
• Public Speaking |
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• Research related to First
Year Trip |
• Resume writing workshop (Career
Services) |
• Advocacy 201: Meeting with
an Elective Representative |
• Preparation for Senior Presentations
of Learning |
| March |
• Groups Within Groups: Exploring
Dimensions of Diversity |
• Facilitation 201: An Intensive
Introduction |
• Building Career Networks |
• Seeing Through Employers’
Eyes: Group Resume Game |
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• Gender 1: Building Gender
Awareness |
• Gender 2: Deepening Gender
Awareness |
• Exploring Non-Profit Careers |
• Senior Resume Review |
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April |
• Racism: Deconstructing It |
• Planning Effective Meetings |
• Vocation: The Two Choices |
• Preparing a Leadership Transition |
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• Fraying at the Edges: Stress
Management 101 |
• Ethnocentrism: Exploring
& Tackling It |
• Homophobia: Countering It |
• Want Ads: |
| May |
• Tower of “Me”sa Spiritual
& Personal Exploration |
• Vocation: Guided Reflections
for Recommitment |
• Vocation: “So What do you
do?” personal exploration exercise |
• Submission of Senior Presentations
of Learning |
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• Last Words: a Reflection
on My Life |