A workshop for the 2019 Bonner Summer Leadership Institute at Waynesburg College. The workshop was about how to lead effective meetings while keeping students engaged. It was presented by Kelly Finn (Brown University) and Joshua Rodriguez (Brown University)

1. Leading Effective Meetings: A Model
for Student Engagement

2. Hello!
I am Joshua Rodriguez
I am here because I
love to give
presentations.

3. Hello!
I am Kelly Finn
I am also here
because I love to give
presentations.

4. Today’s Agenda
❏ Introductions & Ice Breaker
❏ Effective Meeting & Facilitation
Structure
❏ Workshop Studio
❏ Leadership Structures
❏ Workshop Exit Ticket Activity

5. Let’s Check-In!

8. 1.
Process to Developing
Effective Workshops
A method to developing workshops that are
engaging and are effective in delivery

9. Start With The End In Mind
Purpose and goals are the driving force
Bonner Weekly Meeting Workshop on Voluntourism
Old Workshop Goals Purpose & Hope to Achieve New Workshop Goals
● Orient Bonners to
international service
experience requirement
● Analyze ethical dimension
of international service
● Want participants to be
able to be critical about the
ways we serve in
communities abroad, new
or in communities general
● Encourage participants to
gather different
perspectives through
service abroad
● Expose the industry that is
voluntourism and others
like it
● Learn key terms and
definitions
● Develop understanding of
pitfalls to voluntourism
● Reflect on the intent of
service vs the impacts of
them (both conscious and
unconscious)
● Reinforce positive ethical
practices to community
engagement

10. Vary Activities / Stick to Theme
Activities can be a tool to engage all types of
learning styles & add flavor to your workshop
Bonner Weekly Meeting Workshop on Voluntourism
Newly Identified Goals Activities included in Workshop
● Learn key terms and definitions
● Develop understanding of pitfalls to
voluntourism
● Reflect on the intent of service vs the
impacts of them (both conscious and
unconscious)
● Reinforce positive ethical practices to
community engagement
● Had participants divide into small
groups and conjure up definitions / uses
to key terms & then present to one
another - definitions live in meeting
● Lecture style presentation about
voluntourism industry / white savior
complex
● Visual game / activity on the intent of
service in international context vs some
of the dangerous impacts (using
white/savior barbie instagram) - in a
large group setting
● Reflective exercise. Through an end of
workshop exit ticket activity participants
are tasked with writing silently to a
prompt and then share responses with
one other peer

12. Assessing Learning & Workshop
Evaluation
Plan to check for effectiveness

14. Facilitation Tips
● There’s always time for community building!
● Set community expectations / ground rules
● Be consistent / make a tradition
● Keep track of time, but when in crunch divide & conquer

15. Workshop Studio
Goals:
◎ Outline a workshop
◎ Offer support in developing a workshop
Task:
Think of a workshop you would like to facilitate or one you
want to revitalize. Using today’s method develop a workshop,
and come-up with goals and a brief outline of activities for the
workshop.
Peer Evaluation:
Anyone who would like to work through their workshop as a
large group will have the opportunity to present, receive
feedback and make amendments.

16. Leadership Structures
● Bonner morale boosting/cohort building
● Mentorship
● More platforms for student feedback
● Facilitation experience
● Diverse and various voices at the front of the room
Pair and Share:
● Have you integrated specific ways for students to be
facilitating Bonner meetings?
● What have been some of the highlights and challenges of
utilizing students in your workshop facilitation?

17. Time to Say Goodbye

18. Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find us at:
joshua_rodriguez@brown.edu
kelly_finn@brown.edu
swearer.brown.edu