Motivational Games and Activities for Groups by Robin Dynes
How can you encourage people to be motivated? How can you create that sense of yearning to achieve or reach a goal? How can you energise and inspire group members? The exercises and activities in this resource will help you to motivate your team or the group with which you are working. The activities are organised in sections from which you can choose to meet particular group needs. These include:
- Ice breakers and warm ups
- Trust building
- Building self-esteem
- Inspiring creativity
- Aligning values
- Creating an inspiring environment
- Becoming solution focused
- Perception
- Resilience
- Team building
- Visualising and setting goals
- Energy boosters
- Overcoming anxiety and fear
- Managing stress
- Stopping procrastination
- Using competition
Whether your group is small or large you will find something for any setting. Many of the activities can also be used on a one-to-one basis in supervision, with clients or students. The activities are interactive and fun. Trainers, youth leaders, counselors, group leaders, team managers, teachers, care workers an probation officers will find the resource one in which they constantly dip for inspiration.
About the Author:
Robin has worked for Social Services, The NHS, The Probation Service, and Adult Learning for over 30 years. Most recently he has been the Social Inclusion Officer across two authorities. His main role was to develop an innovative outreach curriculum that is accessible and meets the needs of people with disabilities, older people and others who are vulnerable. The aim being to ensure equal opportunity for people with disabilities so they have an active and fulfilling role within the community.
To do this he formed partnerships with day centres, residential homes, social work teams, primary care, special schools, probation, employment agencies, elderly clubs, churches and other providers of services within the community. He also advised and contributed to disability awareness and qualification training programmes for adult learning staff and tutors and the other agencies involved.
Previously he managed a mental health day centre and has worked in multi-purpose day centres, a number of psychiatric hospitals, probation and is a trainer and counsellor.
Author: Robin Dynes
Age Suitability: All
Extent: 256 Pages – A4 Spiral-bound
Published: Mar 2015
CODE: SM-9592