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Four Tips To Boost Your Personal Resilience While Doing Nonprofit Work

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We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. You can practice these exercises alone or with your team. I also use them a lot when I doing full-day trainings.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

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One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. Say the ground rules for brainstorming.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

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He lead us on a series of improvisation exercises designed to teach important skills for networked leaders: empathy, awareness, celebrating failure, being open to change and more. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. David’s improv exercises were designed to help us stretch this muscle and apply to our social change work.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. You also need to design good openers and closers !