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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