Training Topic

Training Description (use in BWBRS)

• Action Planning

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

• Advocacy 201:  Meeting with an Elective Representative

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants strategies for effectively meeting with an elective representative (like a Mayor or City Council member) to educate them about community issues.

• 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.

• 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.  

• Bridging the Gap Between Service, Activism, and Politics

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants learn about and consider various forms of civic engagement that are part of active citizenship, including knowing issues, public education, and policy.

• Budgeting (involve presenter from campus/community)

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

• Building a Personal Network

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

• Building Career Networks

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to build their professional relationships and career networks, important for future job seeking and post-graduate success.  

• Building Coalitions

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants ways to build coalitions around a common goal or project, a key skill set in more complex capacity building or community change.  

• 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.

• Community Asset Mapping:  Freshman Version Parts 1, 2, 3

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to view a community from its assets, not deficits.  Students learn how to find assets within their partner communities and incorporate them into service work.

• Community Building Challenge Course

Bonner Curriculum workshop involves physical and mental team-building activities, which are led by staff and student leaders, to build trust and community.

• 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.

• Cover Story

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches a method of visioning that uses the artistic metaphor of a “cover story” on a newspaper or magazine.

• 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.

• 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.

• Exploring Non-Profit Careers

Bonner Curriculum workshop exposes participants to facts about the non-profit sector and careers, including resources for learning more, reading profiles, and networking.

• Facilitation 101: Roles of Effective Facilitators

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

• Facilitation 201: An Intensive Introduction

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

• Finalizing of Senior Presentations of Learning 

Have students do this!

• Fishbowl Discussion:  Defining Your Communities 

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to reflect on and define the characteristics within their community, critical skills for effective service site work and for building the culture of service on campus.

• Gender 1: Building
  Gender Awareness

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants think about gender, reflecting on the way they have come to understand what being “female” and “male” means and why.  This builds appreciation for issues related to gender.

• 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.

• Get-Out-the-Vote 

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to organize voter registration and education efforts in a non-partisan manner, as part of civic duty and citizenship.

• Global Poverty (lesson plan from Oxfam America)

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

• Goal-Setting: Setting Service Goals & Objectives 

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants learn how to formulate and write clear goals/objectives. It guides participants through straightforward steps of objective writing, which can be used for CLAs.

• Grant Writing or Fundraising workshop (involve staff from local agency or development office)

Bonner Curriculum workshop exposes participants to the basics of grant-writing and various forms of fundraising.  Consult a local Foundation Center or non-profit center office for grant-writing workshops. 

• Groups Within Groups: Exploring Dimensions of Diversity

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants into a deeper appreciation for diversity within a program and community, by having them reflect and discuss issues like class, race, gender, religion, and other aspects.  

• 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.

• Homophobia:  Countering It

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants through thinking about discrimination related to sexual orientation and more complex diversity issues.

• 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.

• Identity Circles: A Personal Exploration of Diversity

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants reflect on and share their identity, as an introductory community-building and diversity activity.  

• Introduction to Effective Communication: Do You Hear Me?

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

• Introduction to the Non-Profit Sector (in preparation for summer)

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to the non-profit sector and basic information they should know about 501(c)3 organizations and governmental organizations that serve as partners.

• Last Words: a Reflection on My Bonner Journey

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

• Leadership Compass

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to reflect on their spiritual and core values, creating an artistic representation of them.

• Leading Learning Circles:  A Train-the-Trainers Approach 

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to plan and lead a learning circle reflection (from the tradition of Highlander), building their facilitation and project management skills.

• Personal Vision 

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a personal vision for their life and work, including through reflection and writing.  

• Planning and Running a Community Issue Forum

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants strategies for planning and organizing a community issue forum, like a town hall meeting, and shares relevant organizations and resources.

• 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.

• Power Mapping

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants a strategy for understanding relationships and leveraging relational power, using power mapping, a technique for organizing and resource use.

• Preparing a Leadership Transition Part 1, 2

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

• Professionalism and Expectations

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to develop professionalism (being on time, dress) and clarify how to best meet partner and program expectations.

• Public Speaking and preparation for Senior Presentations of Learning

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

• Racism: Deconstructing It

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants think about their understanding of race.  It helps them look at racial discrimination and racism.

• 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.

• 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.

• River Stories

Bonner Curriculum workshop builds communication, community building, and diversity skills by having individuals share their stories, using metaphor of river.

• 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.

• Service-Based Reflection: How It Supports Making Service Meaningful

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to the elements of effective reflection, why it is important, and how it can help them find meaning in what they are learning and doing through service work.  

• 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.

• 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.

• Spiritual Exploration

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

• Time Management Follow Up (use planners & BWBRS)

Bonner Curriculum workshop will support students as they incorporate time management techniques, how to use BWBRS to log service and training, and how to balance responsibilities.

• Time Management: Managing by Calendar

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants strategies for managing by calendar, a tool for sorting out competing and complex work assignments and prioritizing work. 

• Tower of “Me”sa Spiritual & Personal Exploration

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to reflect on their spiritual and core values, creating an artistic representation of them.

• True Colors

Bonner Curriculum workshop uses a popular personality and style assessment to help participants discover and share elements of their personality and approach to work, building an appreciation for diversity and reducing conflicts.

• 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.

• 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.

• Vocation:  The Two Choices

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants think about their vocation and calling, developing reflection skills and critical thinking.

• Vocation: “The Bridge Builder” poem and reflective discussion

Bonner Curriculum workshop uses 'The Bridge Builder' activity to challenge participants to think, with intentionality, about the importance of mentorship in their lives and the lives of others.

• 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.

• 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.