Games

**__Values Activity:__** Have participants find two people who are wearing the same color as them. Have them find a spot where they can talk together. Instruct them they will be talking about some issues and you will give them new topics every few minutes. Here are some samples:
 * Talk about the most important thing you learned this year.
 * What are the easiest and hardest emotions for you to express and why?
 * What is something that few people know about you?
 * What do you value in a friend?
 * What do you want to be doing in five years?
 * What is one goal you have for next year?
 * What is a motto you try to live by?
 * What is the greatest challenge you are facing?
 * What do you like most about yourself?
 * What do you value in a loving relationship?
 * What do you value most in life?

**__POSITIVE BOMBARDMENT:__** One member is selected to be the recipient of positive feedback from the rest of the group. Once everyone has had a chance to give that member the “gift” of feedback, another person is chosen and the process is repeated. This can be done in writing with members writing a positive comment to each member and putting them all in an envelope with the person’s name on it, or verbally. This also can be adapted so the members first give some constructive criticism and then some positive feedback.


 * __WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW __: ** Tape a blank piece of paper (poster board - kind of like a billboard over the person’s head) on everyone’s back. The members are to write a compliment or positive comment on everyone’s back. At the end of the session, explain that a lot of times we tend to give compliments behind someone’s back and it is not very often that we actually say these things to people’s faces. We sometimes take for granted the positive aspects of others. If you wish, you may also explain that criticisms often are given behind other’s backs as well, and that it may be more effective if they go to the person, instead of others. Have the group members pair up with someone they would like to get to know better and remove the paper from each other’s backs. They should then explain to that person why they would like to get to know him/her better.

__**PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS:**__ All participants are given a bag with pennies (each participant should have one penny for each member in the group - if there are 20 people, players each should have 20 pennies). Participants go around the room to each other and trade “a penny for a thought.” Participants trade pennies - and positive thoughts about what they think of one another. What an incredible activity and a wonderful way to end an experience! Activity continues until all participants have shared with every member of the group and have a new bag of “pennies for thoughts.”