Focus Your Locus: Activities That Focus the Power of Individuals and Groups
MIKE GESSFORD JUSTIN MCGLAMERY
ISBN: 978-1-885473-89-9 SIZE: 6 x 9 PAGE COUNT: 160
“It is our goal to provide opportunities for you to learn, relearn, or rethink some active and reflective activities that can be relevant for all types of counselors, teachers, and experiential educators. These activities illustrate the power of the focused individual and of the collective mind.“
What can we do as teachers, as group leaders and facilitators to help refocus our groups and harness the necessary energy to keep the momentum moving through the experiential learning cycle? Understanding the energy within us is important. Being able to harness and focus the collective power of the group can bring groups back to previous levels of performance and then move them far beyond.
Focus enables people to more clearly access their thoughts. Access to one’s thoughts helps individuals to evaluate previous thoughts and experiences and create new ideas. New ideas create energy. Energy stimulates awareness, which can influence where one’s locus of control resides. Awareness can fuel courage, potentially allowing one to become more individually responsible. Courage leads to an enhanced ability to make new conscious choices, which, when made within groups, lead to mutual accountability. These new choices lead to new opportunities for learning and growth. New learning and experiences provide opportunities for new thoughts, and the cycle begins anew, with focus enabling people to access their thoughts more clearly.
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Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter 1: The Genesis of Hocus Pocus, Focus Your Locus Chapter 2: Come on, Energy! (Common Energy) Activity: Energy Ball Activity: Ah! So! Zoo! Activity: Whoosh, Wham, Whoa, Wow! Activity: Zip-Zap Chapter 3: Evolution of Group Focus|Looking Back in Front of Us Chapter 4: The Mirror Neuron Party Chapter 5: Individual Focus|Nothingness is Good Activity: Washer Pendulum Chapter 6: Group Focus|That’s Ubuntu! Activity: Pringles® Stomp Activity: Laughing Symphony Activity: Bull Ring Chapter 7: Leading Versus Facilitating|A Slice of Humble Pie Chapter 8: The Collective Power of the Focused Group|Lighter Than Air Activity: Levitation Chapter 9: Accessing Our Thoughts|The Usefulness of Focus Chapter 10: Attention Getters|Can You Hear Me Now? Chapter 11: More Locus-Focusing Fun Activity: A Single Drop of Water Activity: The Clock Activity: The Clock (Webbing Adaptation) Activity: Deeply Rooted Activity: Helium Stick Activity: Instant Replay Activity: King Frog Activity: Micro-Macro Wave Stretch Activity: One Duck Activity: Photo Finish Activity: Pipeline Activity: Positive Isometrics Activity: Run, Shout, Knock Yourself Out Activity: Snoopy vs. The Red Baron Activity: Webbing Yurt Circle Activity: Write Together Activity: Yurt Circle Focus Your Locus Conclusion References Index
