Intended for:
This energiser can be used to close a training session where you want to end the day on a high. The participants will also need to be creative and the energiser gets their ideas flowing about what they found good about the training.
Training course contents:
You can download a set of instructions for the energiser, ‘Inspirational’ from the link at the bottom of this page, or you can follow the notes below.
Resources Needed:
Post-it notes, Flipchart and Pens
Instructions:
Explain to participants that you would like them to devise an inspirational quote to sum up what they got out of the training session, meeting or event.
They should write the inspirational quotes on individual post-it notes and then stick the post it note to a flipchart at the front of the room.
Once they have completed this, the trainer can read out the inspirational quotes to the group and discuss the motives behind them.
Some quotes to get you thinking…
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. – David M. Burns
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. Gloria Steinem Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese proverb
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. – Jim Rohn
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. – Bill Vaughan
Education cost money, but then so does ignorance. – Claus Moser
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. – Peter Brougham
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. – T.S. Eliot
If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Objectives:
This energiser works well at closing a training course and provides participants with an opportunity to feedback in a creative way.
