Supplementary Resources

[1] PRE-PLANNED CURRICULUM, TRAININGS, FORMS, & HANDOUTS

• Sample Training Calendar
• Bonner Foundation Handbook, especially sections:
  • 3: Goals and Strategies
  • 4: Campus-wide Service Organizational Structure
  • 5: Bonner Program Operations
  • 6: Student Development

[a] Civic Engagement Curriculum modules available online include:

• Action Planning: Developing a Plan
• Advocacy 101: Tools for Political Engagement
• Advocacy 201: Meeting with An Elected Representative
• BHAGS: Setting Big Hairy Audacious Goals
• Bridging the Gap Between Service, Activism, and Politics
• Building a Personal Network
• Building Career Networks
• Building Coalitions
• Citizenship: Rights, Responsibilities and Struggles
• Community Asset Mapping: A Critical Strategy for Service
• Conflict Resolution: Steps for Handling Interpersonal Dynamics
• Cover Story
• Exploring Nonprofit Careers
• Facilitation 101: Roles of Effective Facilitators
• Facilitation 201: An Intensive Introduction
• Facilitation 202: More Techniques and Strategies
• Four Corners: Building Appreciation for Diverse Ideas and Dialogue
• Games, Games, Games Galore
• Gender 1: Building Gender Awareness
• Gender 2: Deepening Gender Awareness
• Get-Out-the-Vote (with a youth focus)
• Groups Within Groups: Exploring Dimensions of Diversity
• Homophobia: Countering It
• Icebreakers for Diversity Workshops
• Identity Circles: A Personal Exploration of Diversity
• Interviewing Skills
• Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector
• Leadership Compass: Appreciating Diverse Work Styles
• Leading Inquiry: Using Learning Circles (A Train-the-Trainers Approach)
• Lobbying 101
• Personal Vision: Articulating One
• Planning a Leadership Transition
• Planning Effective Meetings
• Power Mapping
• Preparing to Transition Leadership Supplement: Want Ads
• Racism: Deconstructing It
• Recruitment
• Seeing Through Employer’s Eyes: Group Resume Game
• Setting Service Goals & Objectives
• Shared Vision
• Time Management: Managing by Calendar
• Vocation: Board of Directors Personal Mission & Mentoring Exercise
• Vocation: Finding Your Vocational Fit Worksheet
• Vocation: So What Do You Do? Personal Exploration Exercise
• Vocation: The Bridge Builder Poem and Reflective Discussion
• Vocation: The Two Choices Decision-Making Exercise
• Vocation: Tuesdays with Morrie Reading Guide & Discussion List
• Writing a Resume (Resume Guide)

[b] Modules that may be helpful for you in planning or using directly in retreats, meetings, or trips during the freshmen year include:

• Planning a multi-day event: Email Ariane Hoy (ahoy@bonner.org) for the Train-the-Trainer Session on planning a multi-day event like a retreat. This is not available in the online collection of modules but was previously used with Bonner staff in a training.

• Facilitation 101 and 201 Workshops: These may be helpful to brush up on your own facilitation techniques or to train student leaders and new staff in facilitation techniques for use during retreats.

• Games and Icebreakers: This is a comprehensive collection of games (found as a handout for the Train-the-Trainer Workshop on event planning and facilitation) which can be used for a variety of settings and purposes.

• Icebreakers: For Diversity Workshops: This module has a few additional games and is a good module for training student leaders to lead small group activities.

• Identity Circles: Developing Self-Concept and Appreciation for Diversity: Identity Circles is a good diversity and community building exercise to do at the beginning of group’s formation (such as with freshmen), since it is relatively low-risk in terms of conflict.

• Planning Effective Meetings: This is a helpful module for thinking through the kinds of programming and activities that make up a retreat. This could also be a good module for doing directly with student leaders (later, not freshmen).

• Setting Goals and Objectives: This is a good module to introduce the practice of writing goals and objectives, such as for Community Learning Agreements.

• Community Asset Mapping: This module introduces a comprehensive asset mapping process, which is a good activity for freshmen during first semester, perhaps beginning at an orientation/retreat with a lighter version, such as a scavenger hunt.

[2] LITERATURE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

• MOSAICA Training Binder

• The Corporation for National Service website has an extensive collection of online training resources. These can best be found by using the index of training resources, available at: http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/resources/tta/index_by_topic.php

• Epicenter, the Effective Practice Center, within the Corporation for National Service, is another great resource. Visit: http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/epicenter/index.php

[3] CAMPUS EXAMPLES:

Campus Examples are contained in each of the sub-sections of the Co-Curricular Resource Guide.