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Session 60: Closing Ceremonies

30 minutes

facilitator presentation

Purpose

Celebrate the week, answer remaining questions, and take the final survey

Objectives

  • Participants will have any final questions answered.
  • Participants understand when the next workshop is.
  • Participants will take the final survey.

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Normal Breakout room setup

Facilitator Supplies:

Participant Materials:

  • Computers
  • Journals

Agenda

Closing Ceremonies (20 minutes)

Final Survey (10 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Closing Ceremonies (20 minutes)

Teaching Tip

There are many ways to close out the workshop and acknowledge the time people have spent together. Some facilitators do a “graduation ceremony” where they build hats and give a speech of some type. Other facilitators give out “awards” to individuals and teaching groups. Feel free to solicit other ideas in Slack or the Facilitator Forum.

(5 minutes) Clean out the Question Parking Lot

  • Make sure you have addressed everything in the Question Parking Lot. If there isn’t time to address everything out loud, add some answers in the shared slides.

(8 minutes) Final reflection

  • Close out the workshop with a closing speech to thank participants for their time and energy.
  • One nice way to allow everyone share, but still keep it scoped, is to ask each person to summarize the week in three words. It can be a 3 word sentence or just 3 words in general.
  • Make sure to summarize your experience and invite your co-facilitator to participate as well in this reflection.

(5 minutes) Group Picture

Get a picture of everyone.

(2 minutes) Housekeeping

Remind participants when the next workshop is and when they will receive updates with information.

Final Survey (10 minutes)

Have participants complete the final survey.