Moving Beyond Icebreakers:
An Innovative Approach to Group Facilitation, Learning, and Action
If you facilitate groups (teaching, organizing, leading others towards productive goals), this book is for you. 440 pages of immediately useful information. Find out more.
Teen Empowerment DVDs
DVDs to spark discussion in classrooms, youth groups, and other settings about issues affecting urban youth. More information.
After-School Programs Report
Download Teen Empowerment's 2002 report AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS IN BOSTON: What Young People Think and Want, or contact us for a copy.
MATERIALS
Moving Beyond Icebreakers
This book captures TE's approach to successful group facilitation, which works in many different environments with both youth and adult groups of all kinds. Contains more than 300 interactive exercises and explains how to use them within a meeting structure that's bound to get the results your group needs! Find out more at MovingBeyondIcebreakers.org: See excerpts from the book, see what people have said about it, and order online.
Check out some short videos that illustrate how TE works interactively to engage groups of youth. See exercises in action from our book, Moving Beyond Icebreakers: "Bag Toss," "Zip Zap Zup with Foot-Stamp," and "Wind Blows with Words."
See the interactive exercise of the month!
Voices of Children Left Behind
TE's 2008 publication, Voices of Children Left Behind in Massachusetts Public Schools, gives voice to 31 students and 2 teachers describing the issues they have faced in several school systems, and includes an introduction that places these experiences in context. Download a copy (37 pages) or contact us for multiple copies at a nominal cost.
Teen Empowerment DVDs
Voices from Behind the Wall
In this powerful 25-minute DVD, nine inmates at the Old Colony Correctional
Facility speak about their backgrounds, their lives now, and their
messages for today's youth. Voices from Behind the Wall was produced by TE in 2008, with the cooperation of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. MORE INFORMATION
Read about the DVD in the Jamaica Plain Gazette.
"Jenny Blinger," "Studio 48," and "The War at Home"
TE offers three 20-minute DVDs that will spark discussion in classrooms, youth groups, and other settings about issues affecting urban youth. See the trailers and learn more. Can be ordered separately or as a set.
Order TE DVDs online or download an order form.
Moving Beyond Icebreakers 101
Teen Empowerment offers a workshop based on our group facilitation book Moving Beyond Icebreakers. Interactive methods are usually ignored or marginalized as "ice breakers" to be used only in the first few moments of a community meeting, or first few hours or days of a group's experience. This workshop demonstrates the depth and richness of several interactive exercises from Moving Beyond Icebreakers and how to use them to engage the hearts, minds, and energies of diverse groups of people. Whether you work with children, teens, or adults, you will leave this workshop with specific tools you can use in the next meeting you facilitate.
The workshop runs from 9:30-12:30 and is held at Teen Empowerment's Somerville office, 236A Pearl Street. Cost is $40. Contact us for upcoming workshop dates.
All workshop participants may purchase a copy of Moving Beyond Icebreakers for $20. This is 50 percent off the retail price! Please let us know when you register that you are interested in this promotion.
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