Hello, COA LeaD 2014 Faci Volunteers! First and foremost, we would like to thank you again for participating in this event. Having you guys around will definitely make this years COA LeaD all the more successful! What you are holding right now is the official Facilitators Manual. This will be your guide throughout the event as you help the participants through the different activities, from ice breakers to team challenges and to the final culminating activity.

Each activity for the day is described in full detail with the materials needed, number of participants, rules and goals of the game, and sample processing questions. The processing questions serve as a guide only, which means you may add to it or edit it a bit to suit your facilitation style and audience. At the end of the manual, there are a couple of facilitation tips that you could use to help you out in assisting the participants. If you have any questions about the content, make sure to ask any member of the faci core team for clarifications before the event proceedings.

Despite not being the participants for this event, as facilitators, please do not forget to also have fun and enjoy this COA LeaD experience. Once again, thank you for joining us and may we all work together to make this event the best that it can be!

To jumpstart your LeaD experience, here are the activities lined up for our participants, and for you guys:

Icebreaker Mechanics Materials Needed: Sheets of Tissue Paper

Each column of students will be given plies of tissue. The goal of the activity is to blow all the tissues given towards the back of the line without touching them. The participants at the very front will blow and pass the tissue to the next person behind them and so in until it reaches the back. Once the tissues reach the participants at back, participants must bring these back to the front, again by the same mechanic of blowing. The goal of the activity is to reach 20 points. 1 point per tissue. If a tissue falls and/or a participant is caught passing the tissues using other means apart from blowing, the tissues must be brought to the front of the line.

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SCHEDULECALL TIME for core, facilitators, hosts (Venue: TBA)

Registration of Participants

National Anthem and Opening Remarks

Ice Breaker: Tissue Game

Speaker #1 and Q&A

Activity: Hole in the Wall

Speaker #2 and Q&A

Talk Show: Departmental Talks

LUNCH (Venue: Gonzaga Cafeteria)

Departmental Talks (Venue: Breakout Rooms)

Culminating Activity (Venue: SEC Field)

Processing of Culminating Activity

Closing Remarks

Closing Prayer

Hole in the Wall Mechanics Materials Needed: 12 boxes, blindfolds, scotch tape

Participants are to form groups of 6 and elect a leader. Blindfolds are to be handed out to all team members except the leader. All team members other than the leader are instructed to put on their blindfolds. The team leaders must take their seat somewhere close to their respective teams and must to sit on their hands or put their hands behind their back. For each team, position boxes and scotch tape in various locations around the room. As much as possible keep these items at a reasonable distance from each other. The team leaders may not move from their position and may not use their hands; they may only instruct their blind teammates. Objective: stack boxes to form a hole-in-the-wall type of structure. No team member may complete more than one task. After completing his/her respective task, he/she may remove the blindfold. Tasks: 1. Find three boxes, line them up horizontally 2. Find two boxes, stack on top of the end-boxes from

the first task. 3. Find two boxes, stack both on top of the leftmost

stack of boxes. 4. Find two boxes, stack both on top of the rightmost

stack of boxes. 5. Find three boxes, line them up horizontally at the

topmost of the structure. 6. (For team leader) Pass through the hole in the wall

without letting the boxes fall. If the structure collapses, team members must build the structure again following the order and respective tasks.

FACILITATORS MANUAL

Spaghetti & Marshmallows Materials Needed: 30 uncooked spaghetti sticks, 1 marshmallow, and one year of masking tape

Participants are to form groups of 5 members. Each group will be given a set of spaghetti sticks, one yard of masking tape, and one marshmallow, which must be placed at the very top of the structure. Task: Create the tallest and sturdiest tower/structure in 15 minutes using only the materials given. After the allotted time, participants will be asked to let go of all materials and their created structure for judging. All structures must be able to stand for 30 seconds, otherwise they will be disqualified.

Culminating Activity Mechanics (Spaghetti & Marshmallows, Patience, The Ice Bucket Challenge)

Patience Materials Needed: Needles and thread, hula hoops, baby bottles, stacks of paper, peanuts, chopsticks, math problem solving sheets

Participants are to form groups of ten. Members of each group will be given tasks to accomplish: 1. 2 members will thread 5 needles 2. 2 members will feed a teammate using a baby bottle while

making a hula hoop rotate on his other hand while the drinking partner drinks and rotates a hula hoop on his other hand.

3. 2 members will count all the pieces of paper from a large stack.

4. 2 members will transfer peanuts using chopsticks from point A to point B (Must be far from each other)

5. 2 members must solve a very long and difficult math problem (must only use PEMDAS method)

Participants who are finished with their tasks may opt to help others their other teammates. The team that accomplishes all the tasks the fastest, wins!

The Ice Bucket Challenge Materials Needed: Small buckets, large buckets, eggs, ice water, water balloons, strings

Participants will be divided into groups of 5-6 members. Each group will be given a small bucket filled with ice water with strings attached to them. Each member of every group is to hold on to one string attached to the bucket. Together, each member of the entire group must make their way towards the big bucket, where they must transfer the contents of their small buckets. Members are not allowed to hold/carry/touch their buckets directly; they may only move their buckets and transfer the contents using their respective strings. Scattered around the area are water balloons and eggs. Participants may use these to slow down other teams. The team that finishes first, wins!

PROCESSING QUESTIONS (for activities)

Hole in the Wall 1. How did you select a leader? What are your

bases? What do you think were the essential qualities of a leader?

2. (For leader) What did you feel as a leader? 3. To the team, how did you feel about depending

solely on the instructions of your leader? 4. What difficulties did you encounter in this

activity? 5. What do you think was the goal of the activity?

Spaghetti & Marshmallows 1. What was the groups building strategy? 2. How did this strategy lead to the groups

success/failure? 3. (For groups whose structures failed) What

happened? What went wrong? How could your group have bettered your chosen strategy?

4. (For groups whose structures passed the requirements) What key element/s in your strategy enabled your team to make a sturdy structure?

5. What important traits/characteristics did you see in your teammates that enabled the group to accomplish the tasks?

Patience 1. How did you feel about the activity? Describe

what you felt about the different tasks/challenges. What difficulties did you encounter?

2. What was your strategy to accomplish everything?

3. How did you designate roles? 4. Did you do your part/task well? Could you have

done better? 5. Were there times when you wanted to quit?

Why or why not? 6. What made you push through despite the

difficulties? 7. What do you think was the goal of the activity?

What lessons can you learn from it? 8. How else can you apply what youve learned

from this activity?

DEPARTMENTAL TALKS Questions to help initiate open discussion/sharing

Presidents 1. What do you think is a presidents role in an

organization? What makes him/her different from other leaders in the organization?

2. What traits, attitudes, and/or disposition makes an effective president?

3. How do you think a president should address his fellow leaders and members? How should he communicate with them?

Secretary General 1. What is the current state of your organizations

information processing? 2. As a potential Secretary General, how can you

effectively take note and disseminate information to all members of the organization?

3. What do you think is the most difficult task as a Secretary General, and how will you overcome this?

Finance & Marketing 1. Assess the needs of your organization: how is

financial management and marketing relevant to your organization right now?

2. What do you think is the importance of the having good marketing and financial management for your organization?

3. How do you think you can step up as a financial officer or marketing head?

Human Resources 1. How is a good human resources department

relevant to your organization right now? 2. Assess the HR department of your organization at

present: how may you step up in this department? Project Management 1. What made you want to start heading projects for

your organization? 2. What qualities and traits must good project

managers possess? What personal characteristics do you possess that would make you a good project manager?

3. What project/s are you eyeing to head in your

FACILITATORhow to be a goodContent-wise 1. Know completely the context you are processing

(i.e. the activity that just happened). Your participants will know if you havent a clue as to what is going on.

2. Make sure youre not teaching them the right answers. Let the answers come from them; you are here to facilitate the drawing out of these responses/revelations from them.

3. Remember that the manual is only a guide. You dont have to stick to it word per word. Use your own facilitation style to keep your participants more engaged in the activities.

4. Be flexible. Be aware of contingencies. Things dont always go according to plan so you must be ready for such times.

Verbal 1. Speak to your participants with a clear voice. Sure

that all are within voices reach so as to better facilitate processing.

2. Be conscious of your audience and their basic language backgrounds. Speaking in straight Tagalog when addressing straight English-speaking participants may not be the best choice to make.

3. Avoid lulls in conversation (i.e. awkward silence). Know the content of your activities and processing beforehand so as to ensure its smooth, productive, and effective flow.

4. Be conscious of the time frame of all activities. Speed up or slow down when necessary. Ask more leading questions if the main point needs to be raised quicker, also to better aid the flow of discussion.

Non-verbal/Visual 1. If processing in a room full with other groups, find a

quiet area where your group could process and synthesise with ease.

2. When speaking with your audience, maintain eye contact. Mimic facial reactions and dispositions (i.e smiling when theyre sharing a light-hearted experience) so as to make participants more comfortable and at ease.

3. Maintain a disposition/attitude conducive to the activity at hand. If the activity calls for you to be lively, be as energetic as you can! Your liveliness will rub off on your participants. A somber mood will reflect on your participants in the same manner.

4. Avoid carrying notes and/or your manual with you. Study the content of all activities before the event itself. Your participants will sense your unpreparedness.

PROCESSING TIPS & TRICKS FINAL REMINDERSBefore the Event 1. Study the OpSched and this manual so

as to be completely prepared for all the activities and events of the day itself!

2. Go through the processing questions for the activities and departmental talks. Try to come up with your own questions given certain situations that could arise (i.e. if the participants dont seem to be getting the main point of the activity, provide leading questions).

3. Observe your facial expressions when relaxed, your resting face. As odd as it sounds, how you look when listening or giving attention to your participants has an effect on how they generally act or respond to you. Try not to look stoic or uninterested even if unintended, as this will have ill effects on how your participants will generally act.

During the Event 1. Youre not there to teach them a lesson.

Youre there to guide and help them come to certain revelations about the activities and speakers they just experienced.

2. If youre stuck with what kind of questions to ask first to get the conversation/forum started, its always good to first ask what their experience was like, what happened in the activity, and what they felt throughout the activity. Processing is always founded on the real experience of the participants.

3. Avoid asking close-ended questions (i.e what, who, when) which generally lead to one-worded answers. Ask open-ended ones (i.e. why, how) so as to generate a multitude of responses.

1. Attire: Faci shirt, jeans, closed shoes, ID

2. Bring your assigned group sign!

3. Always keep a smile on! Let the participants know that youre happy and excited for them to be here at COA LeaD!

4. Get a good nights rest the night before the event! This will help you start the day with a happy and rested disposition!

5. Know the OpSched by heart.

6. Have the best time! :)

7. In case of problems and/or concerns about the event, contact:

Faci Head: _______________________ Faci Deputies and Core: _________________________ _________________________ _________________________ _________________________