SAWA

SOLC RETREAT November 4th-5th

Facilitators Lauren Miller, David Keach, and Andrew Sharkey

Student Alliance for the Welfare of Africa

This group came to us requesting help with

- Team Building- Bonding- Group and self improvement - Patience- Communication- Recruitment- Advertising

Schedule for retreat

• 5:45-6 introduction, food name game• 6:45-7 energizers/review: shake eights,

screamer, name toss• 7-8:45pm initiatives: group juggling, Human

knot • 8:45-9 ships and sailors and debrief of the

night• Next day 9:945 breakfast • 9:45-10:00 energizers • 10:00- 12:00 went over mission statement and

how they could use that to their benefit

Evaluations

• Half of members checked that SOLC was extremely effective in meeting their groups needs and the other half wrote very effective

• Eleven out of the fourteen members strongly agreed that this SOLC event helped their organization to develop into a stronger team.

• Nine members strongly agreed that SOLC helped them in making progress towards their goals.

Facilitator 1: Lauren

• Eight members of the group said she completely connected with the group while six said very much

• Seven members stated that she was extremely competent during the event while six said very competent

• Eight group members said she was extremely effective on maintaining a positive learning environment

• Comments: great job, good energy, helpful, don’t be so shy, fun but serious when needed

Facilitator 3 : David

• Eight members of the group said he completely connected with the group while six said very much

• Six members stated that he was extremely competent during the event while eight said very competent

• Seven group members said he was extremely effective on maintaining a positive learning environment and seven said very effective

• Comments: good listener, very friendly, inviting, open, outgoing, great suggestions

Overall comments

• Great work!• Was a great experience• We got to know each other better and got

closer • Very fun • Loved this entire retreat • We made our goals clear and learned

solutions to our group problems

Overall success

- Goals: Team Building, Bonding, Group and self improvement, Patience, Communication, Recruitment, Advertising

- As a result of the SOLC event nine members strongly agreed that they made progress towards accomplishing their goals and five members agreed.

- The comments were all positive and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves

- Out of all the members everyone said either extremely satisfied or very satisfied with how well their expectations were met.

Things to work on in the future

• Working better together as facilitators, sometimes we were on different pages

• Working on transitions from activities to other things

• Debriefing- both as first time facilitators this aspect of the retreat was a little difficult. We used each other as resources however we need to learn more about debriefing before facilitating another retreat

Reflection

• As a first time facilitator I think overall the retreat went well.

• We arrived late and had to rearrange the schedule but this showed that we could be flexible and were able to deal with change

• Doing the actual retreat was easier than I expected especially since we had the schedule written up.

• One thing I liked about this group is that were all willing to participate and were very fun.

• They were patient and that was very helpful.

Reflection continued

• For next time I will know to write every detail even what I will be saying.

• For the debrief I was prepared but not fully. Next time I will have everything for the debrief written out and will ask for help ahead of time if I have questions

• I had a lot of fun and I am now very excited to lead other retreats!