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Using Activities to Engage Participants

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the student to learn is hammering on cold iron.

——Horace Mann, “The Father of American Public Education”

Joan offered a one-day workshop on how to plan and put on a great wedding and expected to give that same workshop to new groups in the future. Participants were engaged couples who were facing the challenge of planning their own wedding. She spent the first two hours of the workshop explaining in grim detail the major and minor details that could derail the smooth functioning of the wedding plans. She designed the workshop this way to show the types of problems that participants could encounter and to explain how her services could help them avoid ...

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