Week 3: Team Building

We took some time out this week to work on some team building skills. We also discussed leadership and talked about some leadership myths (like, Leaders are born, not made).

We played the game Land Mine, to see if we could navigate through a field of land mines (pieces of paper of things that stand in the way of us being a cohesive and productive team) while blindfolded! It was a fun activity, and we were able to discuss and figure out was to get past our own roadblocks.

We also took a closer look at the other youth-led service projects to see what other young minds are accomplishing all over the world for Global Youth Service Day. They were able to put the day into a context. We started to work on developing our own mission statement drawing from ideas from our own personal goals.

Finally, in groups, students worked to define TEAM. Here were their responses:

T - Teaching

E - Each Other

A - About

M - Membership

T - Together

E - Earning

A

M - Meaning

T - Teaching

E - Equally

A - Acceptance

M - Motivating

Great job!! Have a wonderful week!

Peace,

Laura