If you need to know "what comes after the teambuilding activity?" this book is for you! Jim Cain, Michelle Cummings and Jennifer Stanchfield have collectively been active in adventure-based and active learning programs for almost a century. From their extensive facilitation background, here are the best of their techniques, methods and activities for engaging participants in active and meaningful processing, debriefing and program reviewing sessions.
Processing helps learners make connections between their educational experiences and real life and future learning. It helps learners realize that they can apply the lessons they learn and skills they use in a "contrived environment" such as a classroom or challenge course to real life issues such as resolving a conflict with friends, co-workers or significant others. Processing helps create purpose, meaning and focus of an activity it helps learners take advantage of teachable moments.
A Teachable Moment is packed with over 120 activities to help you, the facilitator, help your participants transfer their learning back to everyday life. A Teachable Moment is perfect for new, as well as seasoned, facilitators.

A Teachable Moment: A Facilitator's Guide to Activities for Processing, Debriefing, Reviewing and Reflection

Education & Teaching

Jennifer Stanchfield

Jim Cain

Michelle Cummings

Schools & Teaching

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

The newest book by Jim Cain is Find Something To Do - 123 powerful and practical things to do with nothing at all. This non-prop activity book is 224 pages, back pocket size (4.5" x 6"), with lots of photographs and illustrations. It covers everything from painless icebreakers to team challenges and trust building activities, to games just for fun, puzzles, reviewing and closing activities. In fact, there are more than 123 activities in this book, more than any other no prop book in the field (so far). The Easy as 1-2-3 series of books (of which, FSTD is the first) will be focused on helping teachers, trainers, facilitators and group leaders of all kinds do some amazing activities with groups.

Find Something To Do!

Teamwork & Teamplay

All together, there are more than 123 different ways in this book to create valuable experiences and powerful teachable moments with your next group. And best of all, these techniques require only a few simple pieces of rope, string, elastic shock cord, webbing and other common forms of cordage, plus a few simple props that you probably already have, and a few that require no equipment at all.

Rope Games

Here is one of the finest of team and community building activities and games in the world. In this groundbreaking book, teambuilding guru Dr. Jim Cain shares his favorite and most powerful team and community building activities from around the world and presents each activity in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Thai, Mongolian, Greek, Danish, and Portuguese.

Teamwork & Teamplay International Edition (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian and Chinese Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

A novel based on the lyrics of Canadian Folk Legend Stan Rogers epic song, the Mary Ellen Carter. Set in Atlantic Canada and filled with hardship, friendship, tragedy, triumph, music, love, and most of all ...hope! 
Author Jim Cain takes you on a journey starting in Rochester, New York and traveling eastward to the Canadian Maritimes, through Nova Scotia and onto western Newfoundland, ending up in Corner Brook and the coastal town of Cow Head, Newfoundland (just south of Three Mile Rock). After the sinking of the ship, the captain s son, several of his friends and a cadre of locals do the impossible and raise the ship again. Jim Cain was granted permission to write this tribute to Stan Rogers by Ariel Rogers and released the first printing of the book in the middle of the global Coronavirus pandemic, right when what the world needed was a little more hope.

Rise Again

This collection of icebreakers, energizers, get-acquainted games, opening and closing activities, and team challenges and games are my favorite ways to build unity, community, and connection within any group.This collection of icebreakers, energizers, get acquainted games, opening and closing activities, and team challenges and games are my favorite ways to build unity, community, and connection within any group. From the classroom to the boardroom, from summer camp to boot camp, from student leadership programs to corporate leadership programs, and from families to communities, this book will acquaint you with dozens of powerful (and painless) activities that help the members of your group connect in positive ways.In this book, you ll find one hundred ways to build unity, community, and connection, including activities that require no props, simple props, and even a few modern props (such as a smartphone).

100 Activities That Build Unity, Community, and Connection

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Healthy Learning

The Learning Curve

Extraordinary Facilitation

Reference

The Dutchman's Rope

Connection Without Contact by Dr. Jim Cain features a comprehensive collection of group activities and best practices for future real-world in-person gatherings. From summer camps to conferences, workshops, training events, and classrooms, Connection Without Contact shares some of the world’s best cutting-edge ideas, resources, activities, and recommendations for creating connection with audiences of all kinds, while minimizing risk. In addition to the activity content from teambuilding guru Dr. Jim Cain, this book includes content from camp directors, youth development specialists, medical professionals, and others working hard to serve their communities even while a global pandemic rages around them. Can you actually build unity, community, and connection with participants while maintaining appropriate physical distancing? ABSOLUTELY, and this book will show you how. A must-have collection of activities and best practices for anyone working (or playing) in groups.

Connection Without Contact

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