Wednesday 28 September 2016

Cohort 9's First Workshop! - by Josh Reinhart

So far as Cohort 9 we've had an orientation, volunteered together (at Federation CJA's Yom Yocheved Clothing Giveaway), and gone for ice cream as a group. This past Sunday, however was our first actual Diller workshop.


In our first actual workshop with Diller, we did an icebreaker where we told embarrassing stories about ourselves in the time it took to tie a ribbon around one of our fingers. Then we listened to a report on Israeli news by our Israeli shinshinim, Nir and Shahar, who are working in the Montreal Jewish Community this year and will be helping out at all our Diller meetings.


After that we went outside to work with a person from Dynamix to improve our teamwork and leadership skills, by playing a bunch of games that were pretty fun. The first game we played was rock, paper or scissors, and we had to all battle each other until there was one victor.The second game we played was one where we had to make two lines, one team for each line and flip a bunch of frisbees, these frisbees were numbered so we had to flip all ten frisbees in the order of the consecutive numbers, ex:1,2,3,4,5....


The third game we played was one where you had to traverse a maze created by a bunch of coloured dots that were scattered on the ground, and we had to work together to find the correct pattern to get out of the maze.



The fourth game we played was one where we had to use a bunch of open tubes to take a bunch of balls from one bucket and transport them through the use of teamwork, with the tubes into another bucket. The fifth game we played was one where we had create a human ladder, first we had two separate teams with only one person climbing the ladder, then we had one team with two people climbing the ladder. To create the ladder you had to people holding a stick together with a bunch of other people beside him doing the same thing, then the person climbing the ladder had to crawl along the sticks, held by the people. 


The final game we played was one where you had to transport a bunch of balls from one bucket to another by holding on to a board with strings that had a hole cut into it. Everybody cheated for that one it was pretty hilarious honestly. Each of the games  had us develop and use different skills necessary for teamwork, including communication (verbal and non-verbal), trust, listening, patience, and concentration.

Then after we said our goodbyes to the Dynamix person, we went back inside, had snacks, then talked about the different jobs we could be given for the next workshop, then we went on and talked about our different personal values and which ones we want our Diller  group to follow.  I think that everybody had a good time, it was lots of fun and I really enjoyed it, can't wait for the next one!


-Josh Reinhart

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