Workshops based upon the content of Jim Cain's books
- Essential Staff Training Activities
- A valuable collection of staff training techniques, activities, suggestions and ideas that will make your next training program active, engaging, effective, memorable and fun.
- Find Something To Do!
- For those moments when you have plenty of people, plenty of space and plenty of time but absolutely no equipment, this collection of no prop group activities will show you how to take absolutely nothing and create something wonderful with it.
- It's all in the Cards
- Dozens of powerful activities that you can facilitate with just index or playing cards.
- Teambuilding Puzzles
- From the boardroom to the classroom, this workshop shares some of the more unique and useful puzzles, challenges and team activities found in Jim's book, Teambuilding Puzzles
- A Teachable Moment
- This workshop goes beyond teambuilding games to the powerful techniques of debriefing and reviewing that you can utilize to help your participants more fully understand the transference of the adventure experience. Learn how to utilize some of the 130+ activities found in Jim’s book, for processing, debriefing, reviewing and reflection.
- Raccoon Circles
- Learn how to lead over one hundred activities with a single piece of tubular climbing webbing. Great for those moments when you need to accomplish much with very little.
Jim's favorite workshops
- The Top Ten Teambuilding Activities
- Author and teambuilding guru Dr. Jim Cain shares his favorite, newest and best team and community building activities from around the world.
- Rope Games
- From the title for Jim's latest book comes his favorite collection of powerful activities that you can lead with just a few simple pieces of rope. From Raccoon Circles to the Bull Ring, to over one hundred activities with rope, string, webbing, elastic shock cord and other forms of cordage. Using a finite collection of ropes to facilitate an infinite variety of group experiences.
- Exploring Character Actively
- The goal of this workshop is to turn words (like "character") into action. Jim shares his favorite active learning strategies for bringing character to life.
- Dancing in Lines, Square and Circles
- Learn how to take the essential elements of social dancing and use them to create community with your audience. This event is ideal for an evening program session. Recommended time for this event is 60-90 minutes. As a third generation square dance caller, musician and dancer, I’ve enjoyed teaching a wide variety of rural dances, folks dances, mixers, and modern dances that truly build connection and community.
- Traveling Light
- This collection of simple and lightweight portable teambuilding props is perfect for those occasions when you have limitations on the amount and weight of teambuilding equipment you can bring to an event. Most of the gear required in this workshop fits easily into a small stuff sack and weighs less than 2 pounds (1 kilogram). Perfect for wilderness programs, backpacking trips, trekking camps and any program where traveling light is a necessity.
- Painless Openers, Icebreakers and Get Acquainted Activities
- Team and community building guru Dr. Jim Cain has a vast collection of ‘painless’ icebreakers and opening activities that are sure to start your program in style. This session will absolutely have your participants talking, interacting and connecting, even before the first meal at your next event.
- The Stages of Group Development
- Based upon the ‘forming-storming-norming-performing-transforming’ model of group development, this workshop not only explores the various stages, but also provides tools and techniques for navigating each stage, and progressing on to the next stage. Learn how to take your group past the ‘storming’ stage.
- Social Networking Without the Internet
- Invite your next audience to really connect with other members of the group. More than just icebreakers, this session is filled with team and community building activities that are specifically designed to engage your participants and help them connect with other members of your group, in a safe and active manner.
- DiSC / Myers Briggs Inventories
- Using these tools (and partnering with Jim’s expert co-facilitator, Allison Phaneuf) this workshop will help your team learn where their strengths and opportunities are, and how to work even better together.
- Make It and Take It Workshop
- In addition to writing about team and community building activities, Dr. Jim Cain is also a mechanical engineer and has learned how to make his own unique collection of teambuilding props. In this workshop, not only will you learn how to facilitate activities, but you will also be able to make (and take) some of Jim’s favorite team and community building props with you at the conclusion of the program. For those programs where the budget is limited, this ‘nuts and bolts’ workshop will show you how to truly ‘do it yourself.’ An additional charge for construction materials ($25 to $75 per participant) is required for this workshop.
- Wings, Strings & Flying Things
- One of Jim’s favorite things is playing with toys that fly. This workshop incorporates several fun and scientific activities, from boomerang making, tuning, throwing and catching to paper & foam and 2 liter soda bottle rockets. Disc golf, catapults, petecas and other playful and fun activities are included.
- * Exploring Leadership
- Based upon Jim’s extensive contribution to the leadership program of the C5 Youth Foundation (formerly known as Camp Coca Cola), this workshop explores the elements of leadership in a fun, engaging and active manner.
- Leadership on Fire
- Based upon the historically significant Mann Gulch fire of August 1949, this workshop/case study invites participants to relive the events of that eventful day, and explore the teachable moments given by that event. Learn how decisions were made ‘under fire.’ Discover how 56 minutes changed an American institution forever. How 30 seconds changed the lives of 13 brave firefighters, and how 3 seconds was all that separated life from death for 3 of these men. A dramatic, compelling and historically accurate event that is sure to stay in the hearts and minds of your leadership team.
Jim Cain, Ph.D.
Teamwork & Teamplay
468 Salmon Creek Road
Brockport, NY 14420
Phone: 585-637-0328
Email:
www.teamworkandteamplay.com
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