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Sample Bonner Program Calendar

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
Setting Service Objectives (at higher level)
Learning Circle (class based)
September
• Introduction to Effective Communication
• Community Asset Mapping part 1
• Budgeting
October
• Community Asset Mapping part 2 (involving partner)
• Introduction to Effective Communication: Do You Hear Me?
• Introduction to Spiritual Exploration
• Community Asset Mapping part 3 (involving campus assessment)
• Get-Out-the-Vote
• Evaluation
November
• Time Management: Managing by Calendar
• Conflict Resolution: Steps for Handling Interpersonal Dynamics
• Building Coalitions
• Tuesdays with Morrie Discussion
• 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:
• Community building (move diversity workshops from other areas or add new ones)
• Common commitments
• Reflection & visioning
• Most recommended: Cover Story, Four Corners (changing questions), River Stories/Introduction to Community Building, Leadership Compass
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
• Service-Based Reflection: How It Supports Making Service Meaningful
• Lobbying 101
• Leadership Compass or Meyers-Briggs/Work Style Inventory
• Resume Writing & Interviewing Skills
February
• Fishbowl Discussion: Defining Your Communities
• Building a Personal Network
• Power Mapping
• Public Speaking
• 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
• Gender 1: Building Gender Awareness
• Gender 2: Deepening Gender Awareness
• Exploring Non-Profit Careers
• Senior Resume Review
April
• Racism: Deconstructing It
• Planning Effective Meetings
• Vocation: The Two Choices
• Preparing a Leadership Transition
• 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
• Last Words: a Reflection on My Life

 
   
   

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