Other Modules – Activities

Building Blocks to Peer Success

This section includes activities that help facilitate group interaction and learning, break up the day and bring closure to the training. The intros help to lay out the ground rules and allow participants an opportunity to get to know each other and build trust. Icebreakers help to engage in a participatory manner and energizers are a fun way to re-invigorate a group after a serious discussion or after a break in the day.It is also useful to plan in advance how each training will end, the closures allow participants to summarizekey points, review major "take home" lessons, or transition to the next topic.

Intros

Expectations-Establishing Group Rules
Five Things In Common
Ground Rules
Human Scavenger Hunt
Introduction
Line Up
M and M's
My Left Shoe
My Mother Says
Parking Lot and Group Agreements
Participant Introductions
Peer Interviews
People Hunt Bingo
Tattletales
That's Me
The Object
Trading Places
Training Overview
Truth or Fiction

Energizers

Blinking
Breath
Cush Ball Challenge
Heart
HIV Drug Competition
Meditation
Self Care Body Scan
Sing a Song
Stretch

Icebreakers

Animal Activity
Burden Basket
Conocimiento
Life Lines
Out of the Box
The Ups and Downs of Diversity
What's Your Birth Order?
Which Animal Are You?
Words of Wisdom

Closure

Closing Activity
Closing Activity Candle Ceremony
Closing Circle
Connections
Making the Most of My Strengths
Next Steps and Closing
Pat on the Back
Pulling it All Together Wrap Up

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