Group Dynamics

A creative and hilarious crystallization or thematic evening game.

Working together to the best of one's ability and accepting leadership is like making music. This game is a great outlet for energy and enhances the dynamics of working together.

This is a good activity for collective effort – as well as for review - in a longer programmed.

Rules are part of everyone's life, including the group's, but everyone should be part of the process of creating them, during norming. This game helps do it for fun and allows the leader to bring non-dominant members into the process.

The goal of this Peula is to discuss some aspects of Gevura with the kids, but we are also trying to let them get to know each other, so it’ll have the characteristics of an ice breaker.

The goal:

The main communication between two people- is Hakshava- listening.

During the day, when every-one runs from one place to another, when we feel we have to do a-lot of things, we don’t listening. We are hearing, but we aren’t listening. Not to ourselves, and more then that, not to the others.

We hope, that this Peula, will open a little-bit the understanding of the Chanichim to listen more to each other, and it will bring our little neighborhood, and area, to be more patient, to hear, and to listen to the others.

To show that “Chazara b’tshuva” is not just to regret the things that you did, but it is to return to yourself and see if you are fulfilling your purpose in life.

Aleph: To Learn about the Ten Commandments To Learn more specifically about the commandment of “Do not Covet”

Bet: To learn about the traits of greed and Jealousy To learn about the Yetzer hara and its role within every Jew

Goal: to teach the chanichim a bit about the less-known kind of kavod – kavod to parents,teachers, etc. is obvious, but to your peers there’s a much deeper sense of where kavod comes from.

Goals: A peula with this theme does not present a difficult concept for chanichim to take in. But there should be more depth to it than just “being nice to each other” games. Snif should end with a feeling of caring about other people.

            But such a peula could work on several levels – dealing with the following:

i.                     Our responsibilities towards our friends

ii.                   Our responsibilities towards those people we know or know about who are less fortunate than ourselves (e.g. the elderly)

iii.                  Our responsibilities to less fortunate Jews in other parts of the world

Teach the chanichim the evils of lahson hara, the negative impact it can have on people