Week

Training Topic

Training Description (use in BWBRS)

Meeting 1

• Setting Service Objectives (at higher level; tied to CLA)

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants learn how to formulate and write clear goals/objectives. It guides participants through straightforward steps of objective writing, tied CLAs; revisit this from first year to improve them.

Meeting 2

• Citizenship:  Rights, Responsibilities and Struggles

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to think about conceptions and rights of citizenship in the U.S. and their evolution, including through the amendments to the Constitution & Bill of Rights.  It addresses civic engagement.

Meeting 3

• Developing an Action Plan

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches concrete strategy for action planning.  Students learn to identify a challenge or issue and create written plan including SMART goals.

Meeting 4

• Budgeting (involve presenter from campus/community)

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to create a budget and think about managing financial resources.

Meeting 5

• Introduction to Effective Communication: Do You Hear Me?

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants develop communication and conflict resolution skills.

Meeting 6

• Advocacy and Public Education 101: Tools for Political Engagement

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants learn the basics of public education, including how to communicate with a public official to inform him/her about community needs and issues.

Meeting 7

• Conflict Resolution: Steps for Handling Interpersonal Dynamics

Bonner Curriculum workshop supports students to understand and use teamwork and conflict resolution strategies, including a set of steps for better communication and interpersonal relationships.

Meeting 8 

• Facilitation 101: Roles of Effective Facilitators

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to facilitation skills, useful for service work, planning and running meetings, and training.

Mid-Year Retreat

• Community Building, Diversity, Reflection, Visioning

Use resources on Bonner YouTube Channel!  Recommended trainings include:  Cover Story, Four Corners, Leadership Compass, True Colors, Public Speaking.

Meeting 9

• Building a Personal Network

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants consider and begin to build a personal network, appreciating the relationships they are forming.  

Meeting 10

• Global Poverty (lesson plan from Oxfam America)

Bonner Curriculum workshop builds participants’ understanding and perspective about poverty in U.S. and global contexts.

Meeting 11

• Resume Writing (integrate staff from Career Services)

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a resume and know how to capture their service work in ways that convey their professional experience and skills.

Meeting 12

• Facilitation 201: An Intensive Introduction

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants through more complex facilitation and communication skills, useful for project planning and service work.

Meeting 13

• Gender 2: Deepening Gender Awareness

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants through a reflect on and deeper appreciation for gender and its relationship to their work and experience.

Meeting 14

• Planning Effective Meetings

Bonner Curriculum workshop gives participants a set of steps and tools for planning more effective meetings with purpose, goals, and engaging agendas.

Meeting 15

• Ethnocentrism:  Exploring & Tackling It 

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to ethnocentrism or cultural discrimination and how to be more aware of its effects in their service experiences.

Meeting 16

• Vocation: Guided Reflections for the Sophomore Recommitment

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to reflect on their service work and articulate their own learning and commitments for the future.