60 Minute 

Trainer Guide                         

Recommended

Stage / Audience

Action Planning

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches concrete strategy for action planning.  Students learn to identify a challenge or issue and create written plan including SMART goals. 

Action Steps for Creating a Community-based Participatory Research Project 

Bonner Curriculum workshop, great for individuals or teams who might take on CBR/CBPR, provides steps and tips for carrying out a research project as defined in dialogue with a community agency or group. Students should be introduced to this option here or earlier (during their third year).

Active Listening and Empathetic Conversation 

This exercise uses active listening techniques and photographs to facilitate empathetic discussion. In two rounds, participants will choose a photo from a provided selection that they feel reflects their interpretation of a concept and an experience in their lives, and engage in empathetic conversation.

Engaging in Active Listening and Empathetic Conversation

Photos for the Activity

Addressing Sexual Prejudice

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants through thinking about discrimination related to sexual orientation and more complex gender issues. 

Advocacy and Public Education 101: "Your Voice Counts"

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants learn the basics of public education, including how to communicate with a public official to inform him/her about community needs and issues.

Advocacy 101 Short

Updated 2017: 

Advocacy

Advocacy 201: Meeting with an Elective Representative

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants strategies for effectively meeting with an elective representative (like a Mayor or City Council member) to educate them about community issues. 

See also Lobbying

sessions below

An Introduction to Place

This workshop introduces participants to placed-based education, local resources in the community. It provides them an opportunity to reflect on their own role and their institution’s role in their respective communities, and introduces strategies for community engagement.

An Intro. to Place - Guide 

An Intro. to Place - Slides

An Upstander: What's Your Path to Becoming One?

This session provides a framework to guide individuals on their path to be an upstander. It includes opportunities for reflection and case study analysis that demonstrate the impact of individual and collective choices on shaping social norms and policies.  

BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy Audacious Goals

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to a visionary tool for goal setting, “Big Hairy Audacious Goals,” from Built to Last, documenting successful organizations.  

Black Lives Matter:

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces students to the Black Lives Matter movement, its impetus, history, and significance to civil rights.

Bridging the Divide Part 1: Political Discourse for Civic Action

Bonner Curriculum workshop engages participants in thinking about how to have civil dialogue across political and party lines and think deeper about viewpoints.

Bridging the Divide Session 1

Bridging the Divide (PPT)

Bridging the Divide Part 2: Maintaining Political Discourse on Social Media

Bonner Curriculum workshop engages participants in examining their own social media presence from the standpoint of promoting deeper civil dialogue.

Bridging the Divide Session 2

Bridging the Divide (PPT)

Bridging the Gap Between Service, Activism and Politics

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants to combine their understanding of service, activism and politics into a more comprehensive and effective worldview. 

Bridging Gap Short

Updated 2017: 

Bridging Service & Activism 2017

Budgeting & Financing Your Life After Bonner

This workshop will help students develop a realistic budget for after college. They will be guided to think about living expenses, loan repayment, and other financial obligations. Students will leave the session with skills and knowledge for managing their post-graduate finances.

Building a Personal Network

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants consider and begin to build a personal network, appreciating the relationships they are forming.  

Building Career Networks

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to build their professional relationships and career networks, important for future job seeking and post-graduate success.   

Building Coalitions for Campus & Community Change

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants ways to build coalitions around a common goal or project, a key skill set in more complex capacity building or community change.   

All Bonner Meeting or Campus-Wide Student Retreat

Building Shared Vision 

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a shared vision for a site, team, or project.  It teaches more complex collaboration and facilitation skills.

Citizenship: Rights, Responsibilities and Struggles

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to think about conceptions and rights of citizenship in the U.S. and their evolution, including through the amendments to the Constitution & Bill of Rights. It addresses civic engagement and specifically civic knowledge outcomes. 

Citizenship Long

Community Asset Mapping

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to view a community from its assets, not deficits.  Students learn how to find assets within their partner communities and incorporate them into service work. 

Asset Part 1

Asset Part 2

Asset Part 3  

Community Challenge Course

Bonner Curriculum workshop involves physical and mental team-building activities, which are led by staff and student leaders, to build trust and community. 

Conflict Resolution: Steps for Handling Interpersonal Dynamics 

Bonner Curriculum workshop supports students to understand and use teamwork and conflict resolution strategies, including a set of steps for better communication and interpersonal relationships.

Cover Story

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches a method of visioning that uses the artistic metaphor of a “cover story” on a newspaper or magazine. 

Creating a Career Vision and Statement

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a personal vision for their careers and long-term work, focusing on post-graduate pathways.

This workshop helps participants begin to develop critical thinking about service and how it and other civic approaches can identify and promote long-term systemic solutions. 

Exploring Diversity & Intersectionality

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces diversity by ability, class, ethnicity/race, gender, nationality, political parties (or views), religion, and sexual orientation, with discussion of their relevance to service.

Exploring Diversity & Intersectionality 

Diversity: Differently Abled

Bonner Curriculum workshop definitions and conceptualizations related to physical and mental abilities, to build awareness, critical thinking, and empathy.

Diversity:

Identity, Privilege, & Our Role in Communities 

Participants critically reflect on different aspects of their identity (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religious/spiritual affiliation etc.). It provides a safe space to recognize areas of vulnerability as well as privileges, and engage in collective meaning-making of these experiences. The session also includes a discussion around historical policies and social contexts, which reflect structural forms of prejudice. At the end, participants share their perspectives on being cognizant of one’s power and privileges and structural forms of prejudice, while working with communities (especially marginalized populations).  

Trainer Guide - Identity, Privilege, Communities

Presentation - Identity, Privilege

Handouts - Identity, Privilege

Activity - Identity, Privilege Print

Games & Icebreakers for Diversity Workshops

Bonner Curriculum workshop and activities involve physical and mental team-building activities that promote awareness of diversity. These are led by staff and student leaders to build trust, teamwork, inclusiveness, and community building skills. 

Education and its Influences on Class Mobility

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants navigate their own preconceived notions about the relationship education and class mobility and analyze scholarship that addresses this interaction.

Empowerment: It's Intersectional

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants think about the multiple dimensions of power and what it means to be empowered.

Empowerment: It's Intersectional

Empowerment Presentation (PPT)

Exploring Non-Profit Careers

Bonner Curriculum workshop exposes participants to facts about the non-profit sector and careers, including resources for learning more, reading profiles, and networking.

Expanding Your Sense of Purpose with Ikigai: A Reason for Being and Your Career After Bonner

This workshop will help participants reflect on the intersections of passion, mission, profession, and vocation (Ikigai in Japanese) to come to a more nuanced understanding of their steps forward post-graduation. This workshop incorporates a Bonner Alumni Profile and introduces students to the Bonner Job Sector Guides as resources, which provide inspiring examples of individuals who have found their pathways.

Faith and Me: Spiritual Exploration

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to the most common religions that are practiced around the world. Participants learn about and reflect on their traditions as a form of spiritual exploration.

Fishbowl Discussion: Defining Your Communities

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to reflect on and define the characteristics within their community, critical skills for effective service site work and for building the culture of service on campus. 

Four Corners: Building Appreciation for Diverse Ideas & Dialogue

Four Corners engages people in a semi-structured dialogue around a set of statements intended to provoke critical thinking and sharing. 

Fundamentals and Field of Community Engagement

This session provides a brief overview of the fundamentals of community engagement in higher education, including key

definitions, historical highlights, and opportunities in the field.

Fundamentals of CE - Guide

Fundamentals of CE - Slides

Fundraising Strategies: Developing and Executing a Plan

Bonner Curriculum workshop involves will enhance participants’ ability to effectively develop and execute their fundraising strategies. It focuses on understanding the role of key stakeholders and funding sources.

Fundraising on Campus: Raising Funds Through Events

Bonner Curriculum workshop provides students with knowledgeable tactics for raising funds on campus. It focuses on networking, establishing credibility, and how to navigate your campus procedures when hosting events. 

Fundraising: Mapping Out Donors Part I

Bonner Curriculum workshop focuses on guiding participants through the mapping of resources, determining where participants need to focus further effort, and exploring ways to build their funding network. This first session aims at identifying current and prospective funding resources. 

Fundraising: Mapping Out Donors Part II

Bonner Curriculum workshop focuses on guiding participants through the mapping of resources, determining where participants need to focus further effort, and exploring ways to build their funding network. This second session aims at analyzing funding and prioritizing how to pursuit donors to fund nonprofits.

Games, Games, Games: For Use in Trainings & Meetings

Bonner Curriculum workshop involves physical and mental team-building activities, which are led by staff and student leaders, to build trust and community.

Gender: Reflecting on Notions of Male & Female

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants think about gender, reflecting on the way they have come to understand what being “female” and “male” means and why. (A more updated guide can be found in Gender & Sexual Orientation).

Gender Reflection: Deepening Gender Awareness

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants through a reflection and deeper appreciation for gender and its relationship to their work and experience. 

Gender 2

Long 

Get-Out-the Vote (2020)

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to analyze current trends on youth engagement, issues of voter suppression, and organize voter registration and education efforts in a non-partisan manner, as part of civic duty and citizenship. 

Get-Out-the-Vote

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to organize voter registration and education efforts in a non-partisan manner, as part of civic duty and citizenship. 

Goal-Setting: Setting Service Goals & Objectives

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants learn how to formulate and write clear goals/objectives. It guides participants through straightforward steps of objective writing, which can be used for CLAs.  

Groups Within Groups: Exploring Dimensions of Diversity

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants into a deeper appreciation for diversity within a program and community, by having them reflect and discuss issues like class, race, gender, religion, and other aspects.   

GWG: Race

GWG: Class

GWG: Gender

GWG: All, Long

Homophobia: Countering It

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants through thinking about discrimination related to sexual orientation and more complex diversity issues. 

Homophobia

Short 

Homophobia

Long 

Identity Circles: A Foundation for Community

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants reflect on and share their identity, as an introductory community-building and diversity activity.  

Interfaith Perspectives on Service: Bridging Beliefs and Action

Bonner Curriculum workshop engages participants in learning about the different beliefs of six major world religions. It also introduces them to recognized change agents from various views whose faith motivated them, with time for reflection.

Interviewing: An Introduction to the Art of It

Bonner Curriculum designed to be an introduction to giving a more compelling and effective interview.

Introduction to Communication & Active Listening 

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants develop communication and active listening skills. 

Introduction to Community Engaged Signature Work (Capstones)

Bonner Curriculum session, targeted at juniors or seniors, introduces the concept of a civically-focused capstone project, with worksheets and questions to discuss with partner organization.

Introduction and Discussion with Community Partners 

While we do not have a training module for this, we encourage you to have a formal meeting of community partners with your first year students. Some programs involve partners in Orientation, while others engage students in shadowing or rotations. At this point, introduce students again to how they will finalize a primary placement. You may even do "speed" rounds with partners. Talk about their roles.

Introduction to Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors

This workshop offers an overview of public, private, and nonprofit sectors. It also highlights ways in which these sectors

converge in terms of operations, management practices, or organizational goals.

Intro. to Sectors - Trainer Guide 

Intro. to Sectors - Slides

Introduction to the Non-Profit Sector (In preparation for summer)

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to the non-profit sector and basic information they should know about 501(c)3 organizations and governmental organizations that serve as partners.

Keeping It Classy! Discussing Class & Socioeconomic Status

Bonner Curriculum workshop engages participants in identifying and discussing stereotypes associated with class groups. It introduces concepts of social and educational capital, with reflection.

Last Words: A Reflection on My Bonner Journey

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants reflect on their four-year developmental experience & learning.

Last Words

Short

Launching a Bonner/Student Leadership Team: A Retreat to Move for Vision to Action

Bonner Curriculum workshop is geared at running a half-day retreat consisting of a visioning and planning session for a student leadership team. This builds the effectiveness of student voice and leadership within the Bonner Program.  

Recommended for longer retreat setting 

Leadership Compass

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants identify their work style and adapt to different styles, as well as develop project management skills.

Leadership Compass - Trainer Guide

Leadership Compass Handout

Ledership Compass - Slides

Leading Learning Circles:  A Train-the-Trainers Approach

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to plan and lead a learning circle reflection (from the tradition of Highlander), building their facilitation and project management skills. 

Leading Reflections: An Overview and Techniques

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to lead service-based reflection, building their facilitation and project management skills. 

Leading Service Reflections: A Train the Trainers Approach

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to lead service-based reflection, building their facilitation and project management skills.

Life After Bonner: Finding Your Pathway

This workshop guides participants through reflection on life post-graduation, provides the opportunity to hear from current alumni and read alumni profiles, and provides a framework to consider next steps for opportunities after graduation.

Lobbying 101: An Introduction, Part 1 

An introduction to lobbying as a means of affecting political change for the improvement of society. 

Lobbying 101: An Introduction, Part 2

Making a Difference: Measuring Impact 

It explores strategies for solving complex social problems by looking at how to measure the effectiveness of an intervention and examining how one might make the greatest impact.

Managing Up: Working Better with Your Boss

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants strategies to better work with their supervisors, an important skill in leadership development. 

Personal Vision

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a personal vision for their life and work, including through reflection and writing.   

Planning Effective Meetings

Bonner Curriculum workshop gives participants a set of steps and tools for planning more effective meetings with purpose, goals, and engaging agendas.

Planning a Leadership Transition

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to prepare for a leadership transition for their partner sites.

Leader Trans Part 1  

Part 2

Power Mapping

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants a strategy for understanding relationships and leveraging relational power, using power mapping, a technique for organizing and resource use.

For student leaders or teams/projects

Preparing to Transition to Leadership: Want Ads

Want ads give the outgoing leaders a good idea of what information they need to pass on to the new leaders to ensure they are prepared to take on new roles and that the leadership transition is smooth. 

Professionalism & Expectations

While we do not have a training module for this, we encourage you to spend this time using your own Bonner Program's handbook and rules to revisit and discuss expectations for professionalism and the program. 

Public Speaking and Preparation for Senior Presentations of Learning

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches public speaking for a variety of speech types, building communication skills. 

Racism: Deconstructing It

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants think about their understanding of race. It helps them look at racial discrimination and racism. 

Racism Deconstructing

Short 

Racism Deconstructing Long

All Bonner Meeting (Diversity Focus)

Refugee and Immigrant Voices

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces distinctions of various [im]migrant groups and the structures and institutions that determine their status and rights. 

Replenish

Participants gain an understanding and Secondary Traumatic Stress and its potential impact on themselves and others.

Replenish: Understanding Secondary Traumatic Stress and Developing Structures for Prevention and Maintenance 

Replenish PPT

Resume Writing

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to create a resume and know how to capture their service work in ways that convey their professional experience and skills.

Resume Writing Short

Note: as this contains a guide to write a resume, students can also do on their own with review during a meeting.

River Stories

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to share the stories of their lives using the metaphor of a river, which builds trust and relationships. 

River Stories (special): Our Gender Histories & Herstories

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to reflect on and share the stories of how they developed their gender identities and perceptions.

Seeing Through Employers' Eyes: Resume Game and Revision Activity

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants improve their resumes through an interactive activity designed to generate critical thinking and feedback. 

Service-Based Reflection: How It Supports Making Service Meaningful 

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants to the elements of effective reflection, why it is important, and how it can help them find meaning in what they are learning and doing through service work.  

#Social Media for Change: Effectively Using LinkedIn in the Non-Profit Sector: Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches how to create a profile on LinkedIn for a nonprofit or organization. LinkedIn has over 332 million members, with 2 new members joining every second. It is an effective networking platform for individuals, businesses, and nonprofits and can be utilized to find employees, volunteers, and resources (as well as jobs upon graduation).

LinkedIn Training Module

#SocialChange- LinkedIn.pdf (PPT)

Twitter Training Module

#SocialChange- Twitter.pdf (PPT)

Staying Well & Engaged After Graduation 

This workshop engages students in reflecting and discussing their own wellness and self-care. It helps them identify strategies for maintaining supports after graduation. Finally, it guides them to think about how they stay connected to each other and to Bonner after graduation.

Tackling Root Causes

This workshop (drawn from SolutionsU) explores the concept of root causes, teaching students to think about the reasons that the issues and inequities they are tackling exist. It guides participants on an analytical and discussion-based journey beyond “Band-Aid” approaches to social issues and presents strategies that seek to understand root causes.

Time Management: Manage by Calendar

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants strategies for managing by calendar, a tool for sorting out competing and complex work assignments and prioritizing work.  

Tower of "Me"sa Spiritual & Personal Exploration

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants to reflect on their spiritual and core values, creating an artistic representation of them. 

Train the Trainer Guide

 This session will introduce participants to some basic thinking about adult learners and how that information might shape the way they think about training and educating college students and adults engaged in service. Then, it focuses in on how to design trainings, presenting a variety of instructional methods/ approaches and steps to put together a good plan. Most of the workshop allows for participants to work through their own content area and apply these steps and methods, so another result is that participants will have done quite a bit of design in the session.

Adult Learning & Training Guide 

Slides: Principles of Adult Learning 

True Colors

Bonner Curriculum workshop uses a popular personality and style assessment to help participants discover and share elements of their personality and approach to work, building an appreciation for diversity and reducing conflicts. 

Tuesday With Morrie Reading and Discussion 

Bonner Curriculum workshop integrates Tuesdays with Morrie to have participants consider harder questions about life.  This builds introspection and dialogue. 

Understanding Different Awareness Campaigns

Bonner Curriculum workshop examines several different awareness campaigns and leads participants in creating their own.

Understanding Campaigns Short

Unpacking the  -Ism’s: Common Terms To Talk About Social Justice and Oppression

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces racism, sexism, nationalism, heterosexism, ableism, and classism and other forms of social oppression as a foundation for diversity and intercultural competence.

Vocation: Board of Directors

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants consider mentors and their impacts, using the metaphor of a non-profit board of directors as advisors to guide them. 

Vocation: Finding Meaning in Your Life: Questions for Reflection

Bonner Curriculum workshop leads participants through a series of questions meant to inspire reflection and personal growth.

Vocation: Finding Your Vocational Fit

Bonner Curriculum workshop guides participants through questions to help them identify long-term career and vocational interests, important to maximizing their college and Bonner experience. 

Vocation: "So What Do You Do?"

Short exercise to prompt reflection about future aspirations

Vocation: "The Bridge Builder" Poem and Reflective Discussion

Bonner Curriculum workshop uses 'The Bridge Builder' activity to challenge participants to think, with intentionality, about the importance of mentorship in their lives and the lives of others. 

Vocation: The Two Choices 

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants think about their vocation and calling, developing reflection skills and critical thinking. 

Volunteer Recruitment - Session 1

Volunteer Recruitment - Session 1 (PPT)

Volunteer Recruitment for a Non-Profit Organization: Outreach Strategies (Part 2)

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to analyze resources and connections that they have in a web in order to developing a recruitment plan for a site.

Volunteer Recruitment - Session 2

Volunteer Recruitment - Session 2 (PPT)

Volunteer Recruitment for a Non-Profit Organization: Training & Managing Volunteers (Part 3)

Bonner Curriculum workshop teaches participants how to carry out volunteer outreach and to provide training and support for volunteers or students at a site.

Volunteer Recruitment - Session 3

VR Training - Session 3.pdf

Who Am I?: Unpacking Race and the Privilege and Oppression That Follows

Bonner Curriculum workshop helps participants to think critically about race and racism, especially from the lens of privilege and oppression.

Who Am I.Race & Privilege

Who Am I (PPT)

Y'all Means All: Discussing Gender and Sexual Orientation 

Bonner Curriculum workshop introduces participants into a deeper discussion of gender as well as sexual orientation (or preference), which is inclusive of LGBTQ identities.

Y'all Means All

Y'all Means All (PPT)

Your Empowered Voice Through Creative Expression

Bonner Curriculum workshop, which draws on the inspiring TED Talk of a woman from Darfur, prompts students to find their own voice about an issue they care about and share it creatively.