Week

Training Topic

Training Description (use in BWBRS)

Meeting 1

• BHAGs:  Setting Big Hairy Audacious Goals

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to a visionary tool for goal setting, “Big Hairy Audacious Goals,” from Built to Last, documenting successful organizations.  

Meeting 2

• Hearing the Call:  Listening to Your Inner Voice

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to reflect on their journeys and its deeper impact and meaning, exploring vocation and long term aspirations.

Meeting 3

• Vocation:  Board of Directors 

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants consider mentors and their impacts, using the metaphor of a non-profit board of directors as advisors to guide them.

Meeting 4

• Spiritual Exploration

Bonner Curriculum workshop inspires participants to reflect on and share spiritual and ethical values, critical to their community engagement work.

Meeting 5

• Evaluation and Program Assessment (involve faculty or non-profit leader as presenter)

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to understand the basics of evaluation and program assessment, important to leadership roles.

Meeting 6

• Shared Visioning Activity

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a shared vision for a site, team, or project.  It teaches more complex collaboration and facilitation skills.

Meeting 7

• Tuesdays with Morrie Reading and Discussion

Bonner Curriculum workshop integrates Tuesdays with Morrie to have participants consider harder questions about life.  This builds introspection and dialogue.

Meeting 8 

• Host a retreat for Seniors to reflect and focus on their final term (capstone/senior presentation), using Creating a Career Vision

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a personal vision for their careers and long-term work, focusing on post-graduate pathways.

Mid-Year Retreat

• Community Building, Diversity, Reflection, and Visioning

Use resources on Bonner YouTube Channel!  Recommended trainings include:  Cover Story, Four Corners, Leadership Compass, True Colors, Public Speaking.  See Wiki for all Training Descriptions!

Meeting 9

• Public Speaking and preparation for Senior Presentations of Learning

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches public speaking for a variety of speech types, building communication skills.

Meeting 10

• Seeing Through Employers’ Eyes: Group Resume Game

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants improve their resumes through an interactive activity designed to generate critical thinking and feedback.

Meeting 11

• Resume Writing Higher Level (integrate staff from Career Services) and Senior Resume Review

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants strategies for documenting their service and capacity building as key professional skills.

Meeting 12

• Preparing a Leadership Transition

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to prepare for a leadership transition for their partner sites.

Meeting 13

• Want Ads:  have students write one to replace themselves 

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to envision leadership transitions by helping to create a strategy for identifying a replacement for their sites.

Meeting 14

• Last Words: a Reflection on My Bonner Journey

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants reflect on their four-year developmental experience & learning.

Meeting 15

• Finalizing of Senior Presentations of Learning 

Have students do this!

Meeting 16

• Senior Celebration!

Yay!  It’s time to celebrate!