Focus Your Locus: Activities That Focus the Power of Individual and Groups

The authors have included quick attention getters and activities for leaders and facilitators that want to help their group members regain focus as individuals or as a whole group. The methods presented here can be used to frontload learning, to sustain group momentum, to energize initiatives and to provide new streams of insight during processing.

Mike and Justin work as adventure educators at the Gengras Center on the campus of St. Joseph College in West Hartford, CT. The Gengras Center is a private education facility for students ages 5 to 21. In recent years, their roles have expanded into providing quality adventure programming for the college community and a wide variety of other groups.