Facilitated Growth: Experiential Activities for Recovery and Wellness is designed for those facilitators and professionals who work with people in the process of recovery and wellness. It is filled with useful tools and activities that are sure to liven up your programming.
Facilitated Growth: Experiential Activities for Recovery and Wellness by Michelle Cummings, Marc Pimsler, and Diane Sherman offers:
- A new energy and excitement for your recovery and wellness work.
- Experiential activities to provide an opportunity to intentionally surface behaviors or scenarios that happen in the real world in a more controlled environment.
- A process to walk participants through what happened, why it is important, and how it impacts the future as an important part of the recovery process.
PLAY WITH PURPOSE
7 Up
As If
Body Part Check-In
Bull Ring Cup Stack
Clean and Messy
Conflict Animals
Coping with the Stuck Points
Digital Contract
Emotional Jenga
Fabric Check-In
Group Juggle
Gutterball
Have You Ever
Helium Pole
Human Camera
Human Knot
Icebreaker Thumball
Jacobson’s Progressive
Relaxation Technique
Knee Coup
Knot Exchange
Labyrinth Walk
Look Up, Look Down
Lycra Tube
Mask Making
Mousetrap Trust Sequence
Pokerface
Promenade Tag
Protector Destroyer
Serenity Prayer Shuffle
Spot It! Cards
Switch, Change, Rotate
Tell a Story Cards
Toxic Waste
Traffic Jam
Turning over a New Leaf
Two Truths and a Lie
UFO Ball, The Value of
Connection
Wizards and Gelflings
SYMBOLIC LEARNING
1st Things 1st
The Bison and the Cow
Body Part Debrief™
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
The Butterfly Story
Change Debrief
Coping Skits
Crunch Time
Feeding the Two Wolves
The Fences and Wells Analogy
The Gem Story
Grief Timeline
Group Guidelines
Growth Zone
I Am Grateful
I Am Group Affirmations
Junk to Jewels
Learner’s Permit
Me, Myself, and I
Metaphor Cards
My Coat of Arms
No Two Snowflakes
Picture This
Reel Recovery
Serenity Prayer
Deconstructed
The Starfish Story
Stigma—A Mark of Disgrace
The Dance of Surrender
The Inukshuk
The Other Side
The Voices in My Head
These Two Things
Tree of Hope
Vital Signs of Recovery
Walk the Talk
Weather Report
Who Am I?
Write My Eulogy
PHOTO CREDITS