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Icebreakers: A Fun Get-to-Know-You Game
Once a month at work, we try to do “One Fun Thing.” This month was our Second Annual Popsicle Party. I was reminded of one of my favorite icebreakers. It’s so simple!
Materials
- 1-2 strips of paper per person
- writing utensils
- a bowl or mug
- an object to pass around (I almost used my son’s bunny from the photo above, but it was too smelly!)
- a dice (I think that is plural, but I don’t think it will be clear what I’m talking about it if I actually write it properly!)
Step One
Turn on music and open boxes of popsicles. There are my personal favorite flavors:
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Brene Brown’s Engaged Feedback Checklist
I haven’t really gotten into Brene Brown’s stuff yet. I haven’t read any of her books or even watched her Netflix special. However, I just came across Brene Brown’s Engaged Feedback Checklist and wanted to share it.
My work at Montessori For All involves a lot of deep, complex interpersonal work. The stakes are always so high. We are dealing with children, families, and their futures. We are dealing with the complexity of deeply emotional work. All of us bring our past trauma, our past patterns, our preferences. And we are always working with each other on a really urgent and tight timeline because there’s always so much that … Read More
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Vacation in Upstate New York: A Video
Matt finished putting together a video of our vacation in Upstate New York. A friend of ours gave us his old drone and GoPro, so that’s what Matt uses. We also used our iPhones to capture pieces of it.
I’m constantly asking parents who are older than I am, “What do you which you would have done differently to savor your children’s childhoods?” One of the answers that stuck out to me was a colleague of mine. He said, “I wish I would have captured more video.”
I’m so grateful that Matt captures a lot of our lives on video. He makes a recap each year. Here are links … Read More