Module 7 Interdependence: Responsibilities Day 3

Overview	Time
Purpose	Learning Objectives
Major Sections	Equipment, Materials, and Supplies
Transparencies	Handouts
Prepared Newsprint	Trainer Resources
Room Requirements	Predelivery Preparation
Trainer Outline

Overview

Interdependence: Roles and responsibilities symbolically returning to the circle through values that guide roles and responsibilities of each member toward a collective interconnected systematic whole-to discover viable models of the future.

Time

2 1/2 hours

Purpose

An experiential focus on interdependent roles and responsibilities.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

Interpret the significance of a culturally appropriate opening and the importance of community representation.
Observe a culturally relevant performance and interpret the significance of traditional and historical teachings.
Compare traditional teachings and its applications to addressing current cultural and social issues.
Selfidentity, individual knowledge, skills, and abilities and the importance of commitment and renewal in fostering community wellness.
Observe and evaluate strategies which promote interdependence.

Major Sections

I.	Activity: Drum Call and Opening Ceremony	(10 minutes)
II.	Play: Traditional Native stories of the Northwest are consolidated
	in the play "According to Coyote"	(60 minutes)
	BREAK	(20 minutes)
III.	Exercise in Teams: Interdependence and Renewal Strategies	(45 minutes)
IV.	Lecture: Teaching Quotes slides, people from audience	(20 minutes)
	LUNCH	(120 minutes)

Equipment, Materials, and Supplies

slide projector and computer link
drum
recorder
PA system, stage lighting, backdrop curtains for play
Yarn
Newsprint
Teaching Quotes
Organizing Reference Sheets/ Transparencies
- Yarn balls for each group
- Slides for story
Yarn balls for each group
Theater setting for play or storytelling, with lighting and sound equipment

Transparencies

T-7.0:	Module 7 Purpose and Learning Objectives
T-7.1-7.3:	How the Animals Stole Fire
T-7.4:	Bear
T-7.5:	Bear Paw and Ants
T-7.6:	Ants World
T-7.7:	Everything Is Interconnected

Handouts

HO-7.1:	How Animals Stole Fire (Story)
HO-7.2:	Article - According to Coyote
HO-7.3:	Quotes from our Elders and Renewal
HO-7.4:	Article Father of Four Overcomes Barriers to Graduate

Prepared Newsprint

PN-7.1:	Renewal Strategies
PN-7.2:	Observed Teachings of Interdependence

Trainer Resources

TR-7.1:	How Animals Stole Fire (Story)
TR-7.2:	Article - According to Coyote
TR-7.3:	Quotes from our Elders and Renewal
TR-7.4:	Article - Father of Four Overcomes Barriers to Graduate
TR-7.5:	Everything is Interconnected Traditional stories from geographical region of the GONA

Room Requirements

Dimming lights
Large portion of room without chairs free for movement

Predelivery Preparation

Slides preparation
Quotes in computer Quotes for certain people
Choosing people to read quotes
Contact elder for drum call and prayer
Copy of story for all participants
Prepare clan leaders for four seasons
Staging for theatrical production should be done in consultation with the performers or production company to ensure proper lighting, sound, etc.

Trainer Outline

I. Activity: Drum Call (T-7.0: Module 7 Purpose and Learning Objectives (10 minutes))

Have musical equipment available for shy people
If person has limited movement, give them a drum or rattle

A.Instruction

1.Designated trainer or community person will lead the drum call and opening ceremony.

2.The facilitator will announce that this morning we will be seeing a play as a part of the curriculum.

Note To Trainer: If a theatrical presentation follows the opening ceremony, efforts should be made to minimize the disturbance of the staging area for the production. Perhaps using two sites, one for the opening ceremony and one for the theatrical production would ease the pressure when it is time to transition to the theatrical production.

II. Storytelling/Play: Legends (60 minutes)

TR-7.1: How Animals Stole Fire Story

HO-7.1: How Animals Stole Fire Story

A. Instruction:

1. There are two options. The facilitator can use the story "How the Animals Stole Fire," and any other collection of Native American stories, to convey our interdependence upon each other and our environment.

HO-7.2: Article According to Coyote

TR-7.2: Article According to Coyote

2. The second option is to use an existing theatrical presentation, such as "According to Coyote," as an adjunct to the GONA curriculum. This option requires contracting with a production company and required observations of copyright or royalties.

Introduction: Facilitator will introduce the theatrical production to the group.

3. In either case, adequate time after the presentation is required for participants to process their interpretations from the stories.

Read the story from Trainers Manual. Discuss how the story conveys importance of teamwork, interdependence, and responsibility

BREAK (20 minutes)

III. Exercise In Teams: Interdependence and Renewal Strategies (45 minutes)

A. Instruction

1. Each team has one facilitator.

T-7.7: Everything Is Interconnected

TR-7.5: Everything Is Interconnected

PN-7.2: Observed Teachings of Interdependence

2. The facilitator will ask the group to share what teachings they observed in the play or storytelling about our interdependence with one another and our environment. Volunteer responses from the group, as in the popcorn style. These teachings are written down on newsprint for the team (or if smaller training, in large group).

3. Yarn Toss. A ball of yarn is provided for each team. The facilitator explains that he/she will toss this ball of yarn and keep holding to the loose end of the string. As it is caught by the next person, they should hold onto the loose string and toss the ball to someone else across the room. Eventually, the yarn will be spread across everyone. After the yarn has been used up, or after everyone has had the opportunity to toss the string (make sure each person in the group is holding a piece of the string), ask the following questions:

What would happen if two people (while continuing to hold the string) tried to leave the room? Try it and see what happens.

What would happen if half the people in the room dropped their hold onto the string and chose not to participate? Try it and see what happens. How strong is the string now?

B. Discussion Points

1. We are interconnected with our environment and with each other.

2. Even if we think we can act independently, the strength of our efforts depends upon the support of others.

PN-7.1: Renewal Strategies

3. How can we acknowledge others and make them a part of the circle?

4. Using newsprint, list renewal strategies that the community team identifies and hang this by the team shield.

IV. Exercise/In Teams: Quotes from Our Elders and Renewal (20 minutes)

TR-7.3

HO-7.3: Teaching Quotes From Our Elders and Renewal

A. Instructions

1. Facilitator asks team to open Participant Manual to the Resources for Module 7, and find the Teaching Quotes from Our Elders.

2. Facilitator asks for volunteers to help read each quote aloud to the community team.

3. Facilitator asks the group to share any other teachings that they heard from their own elders.

B. Discussion Points

1. We have within our own community the strengths we need to effectively overcome alcoholism and substance abuse.

2. Within each of us we have strengths, and pools of knowledge that we tap from time to time, sometimes without even thinking about it. There are wells of strength which nourish us and keep us going. What are they? How do we each renew ourselves?

C. Exercise

1. Using newsprint, the facilitator will write down on paper all the ways the people in the group find to renew themselves.

PN-7.1: Renewal Strategies

2. Probe the group to think about the things they do when they need renewal or strength to continue, such as going to see their elders, fasting, prayer, vacation, etc.

LUNCH (90 minutes)

Continue to next module.