Shanée Brown '12
Home Town: Bridgeport, CT
Major: English
Tucker Program: Habitat for Humanity, SEAD
History with Tucker: "I volunteered with SEAD and started volunteering for Habitat for Humanity my sophomore year. I became a Habitat Chair junior year, and now this year I have been the student director."
What Tucker Means to Me: "Tucker is a huge resource. Without the Tucker Foundation acting as an organizational umbrella for so many service programs on campus, students would be lacking in so many important volunteer opportunities."
Conversations That Matter is new program of the Tucker Foundation that will increase the amount of meaningful reflection on campus through facilitated group reflection workshops led by Peer Reflection Facilitators (PRF).
A group on campus (a service group, a Greek House, a COSO group, an athletic team, any group) decides they would like to have a meaningful group reflective experience. They contact Conversation That Matter and schedule a reflective workshop. This reflective workshop will be facilitated by two Peer Reflection Facilitators from the corps of PRFs. Conversations That Matter will offer a set menu of themed reflective workshops. In its first term, Conversations That Matter will focus on one workshop with the theme of reflecting on community service. As the program grows, we will develop additional workshops based on current events at Dartmouth, student feedback and requests, and the interest of the PRFs.
As mentioned, these reflective workshops will be co-led by Peer Reflection Facilitators. Peer Reflection Facilitators are students just like YOU! They are sophomores or juniors who are interested in fostering more meaningful conversations on campus and want to learn how to do so! As a Peer Reflection Facilitator you will be part of an elite group of students trained to help groups reflect and deepen their understanding of themselves and each other. You will be part of a movement seeking to improve the way we engage with each other at Dartmouth. And you get a free t-shirt!
Not sure you are up to the challenge? Don't worry, we will help! Each selected Peer Reflection facilitator will participate in an initial 6 hour training and orientation retreat that will provide training on the fundamentals of group facilitation, theoretical underpinnings of reflection, facilitation of diverse groups, and the specific workshops.
Peer Reflection Facilitators should plan to facilitate about 2 reflection workshops each term. Each of these workshops will take 90 minutes for the actual workshop, and about 1 hour of preparation. This is in addition to the initial 6 hour training and orientation retreat and termly start-up/refresher meetings.
Do you have additional questions? Contact Tracy Dustin-Eichler at tracy.dustin-eichler@dartmouth.edu.
