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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

They will also have people up and moving around doing thoughtful, interactive exercises, usually in small groups to facilitate discussion and collaboration. They incorporate engaging team-building exercises and icebreakers to break up the day with some laughs and to build relationships. They make the day fun.

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s when you can add a brief stretch break, energizer , or incorporate an exercise that requires getting up and moving around. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function. Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around. Movement is better than sitting.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. Repeat the exercise, this time with the goal of moving one person to the opposite side of the room.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a peer learning situation, people may make stronger connections with others and develop working relationships that may go beyond the learning experience. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

And just a couple of real quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out that recording as well as the slides later on. Well, let me take down my slides because they want to hear from you, not me. So are you ready for me to present my slides? .

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

Tom Iselin will show you how to increase your likability and “memorability” among donors that will deepen relationships, help you raise more money, and create greater donor loyalty. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding.

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