A Teachable Moment: A Facilitator's Guide to Activities for Processing, Debriefing, Reviewing and Reflection

If you need to know "what comes after the teambuilding activity?" this book is for you! 
Jim Cain, Michelle Cummings and Jennifer Stanchfield have collectively been active in adventure-based and active learning programs for almost a century. From their extensive facilitation background, here are the best of their techniques, methods and activities for engaging participants in active and meaningful processing, debriefing and program reviewing sessions.

Processing helps learners make connections between their educational experiences and real life and future learning. It helps learners realize that they can apply the lessons they learn and skills they use in a "contrived environment" such as a classroom or challenge course to real life issues such as resolving a conflict with friends, co-workers or significant others. Processing helps create purpose, meaning and focus of an activity it helps learners take advantage of teachable moments.

A Teachable Moment is packed with over 120 activities to help you, the facilitator, help your participants transfer their learning back to everyday life. A Teachable Moment is perfect for new, as well as seasoned, facilitators.

Co-Authored by Michelle Cummings, Jennifer Stanchfield and Jim Cain

About the Authors:

Jennifer Stanchfield, M.S.  is principal of Experiential Tools, a company dedicated to providing resources for the art of experiential group facilitation and teaching. In her 20 years as an experiential educator she has worked as a classroom teacher, a recreational therapist in treatment programs for children and adolescents, and as a challenge course facilitator and trainer. Through these diverse experiences she has developed a repertoire of practical activities, tools and strategies that she enthusiastically shares with other educators and group facilitators in her engaging workshop sessions and publications. She is author of Tips & Tools: The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation.

Michelle Cummings, M.S. is the Big Wheel at Training Wheels, Inc. and has created a truly unique collection of facilitation, debriefing and reviewing props that have changed the way adventure programmers work. She has facilitated a wide variety of programs from therapeutic populations, corporate and school groups, to train the trainer programs for professionals. Michelle is the author of Bouldering Games for Kids, an educational guide for traverse walls.

Jim Cain, Ph.D is the author of the adventure-based teambuilding books, Teamwork & Teamplay, The Book on Raccoon Circles, Teambuilding Puzzles and is the creative force behind Teamwork & Teamplay- The Adventure-Based Training Company. He has created a wide variety of adventure-based learning activities and has facilitated programs in 38 states and 9 countries.