Youth in Action: Teambuilding Workshops!

Last week, Youth in Action teamed up with CultureLink's SWIS program in order to deliver fun teambuilding workshops to the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Classes at St.Mary's School. Each workshops consisted of a few teambuilding activities, followed by a debrief where the youth reflected on the activities and how they can be a better team member at school and in all other areas of life. 

Below: One of our first groups meet and we break the ice!

Below: One of the activities was to build the tallest tower out of limited materials. We had some very creative structures as a result!

Below: Another activity was to fill a large cup of water by passingthe water from smaller cups down the line of teammates. But there's a catch, the cups have holes in them! The youth managed to problem solve and work together to win the race.

Thank you SWIS worker, Ronald Rojas and to St Mary's School for partnering with Youth in Action to make this amazing week possible!

Sankofa Multicultural Club - Dream Team Challenge

The Multicultural Club worked together in small teams to create a floating device. The challenge: Drop in as many chocolates as you can before it sinks. The amount of chocolates you have on before it sinks is what you get to keep. Let the games begin 🙌

 From left to right : Charlie, Hanna, Bruno & Beatriz 

 From left to right: Jose, Beatriz, Cecilia & Stephanie

Yasmin (center: WNH Youth Worker) explaining the rules

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This program is in partnership with West Neighbourhood House & Bishop Marrocco Thomas Merton/CSS

Youth in Action: Leadership and Team Building Workshops!

This month, Youth in Action partnered up with the Summer settlement Program and the Toronto Catholic District School Board for some amazing workshops. The classes joined us to practice leadership skills through theatre activities and worked together to do team building exercises that helped our groups to hone their skills at problem solving as a group. 

Here are some pictures of the groups as they prepared and presented their skit of leadership styles (diplomatic, autocratic and laissez-faire). We discussed the different types of leaders and the teams acted out each style to the rest of the group. 

 Our amazing volunteers, Lander, Claude and Andrei were great at motivating the teams and helping them through the difficulties of the activities.

 Mr. Rojas checking-in with the students after the activity to discuss what they learned.

Then, we moved on to our Teambuilding workshop. Here, we broke the group into teams again and they were given challenges to complete together to see who could cooperate well enough to beat the tests!

The first activity was to see which team could build the tallest structure. They were given straws, tape and very little instruction and had to brainstorm to find the solution!

 

Here are some of the winning teams and their straw structures. Amazing work!

Another activity was when we broke off into two teams and raced to fill a bucket at the end of the line. The teams practiced patience and worked together to send the water down the line to the finishing bucket. 

And one last shot of our check-in after the activities to see what we learned!

 Such a great day and so much was learned by participants and facilitators! Thanks to everyone for coming out and see you at the next Youth in Action event!