[philmont] Team building exercises for on the trail

A couple of suggestions:

We've used the Ethical Controversies (found in the Venturing Leader's
Handbook) as entertainment. You can make up your own as well. Divide
the crew into two teams and let them debate an issue and then have them
switch sides. We debated the Supreme Court case involving the high
school student with the "Bong Hits for Jesus" banner recently--and
almost couldn't get them to stop talking! We don't do this every
night, but often do one on each two night shakedown and 2-3 times on
the trail. (and if you have kids working on Venturing awards, two EC
complete one requirement for Venturing Silver).

  In 2004, our Ranger had us each tell our favorite book's title, what
it was about, and why we liked it.

I learned about some great books from the crew that I wouldn't have
otherwise read, and you would be amazed at what I learned about high
schools (our crew draws from a number of different ones in the area)
from the most recent EC we did.

Denise Vowell
VC 574

-----Original Message-----
From: keithhooks@msn.com
To: philmont@troop47.com
Sent: Tue, 8 May 2007 12:56 PM
Subject: [philmont] Team building exercises for on the trail

    One of our troop's traditions for Philmont is to do some team
building exercises around the campfire during our shakedowns and while
on the trail. One of these is a game called TTL (Two Truths and a Lie).
We go around the circle taking turns telling two interesting or unusual
things about us, or things that we have done, and one thing that is
completely made up. The object of the game is to guess which of the
three things is a lie. 
 
  There are others we do, but before I share them, does anyone else have
any? 
 
 -Fedex 
 706-T1 (2007) 
 
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