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Choose the activity which best fits your team situation and/or give the following section to your team leader, or whomever facilitates team activities. Schedule a time for one or two of these team activities to create celebration, thanksgiving, and reconciliation amongst you.
Covid Contingency: These activities can be done via Zoom, which though not ideal, is possible. Where there are security concerns, if you can plan far enough in advance so that meeting outside is a possibility, that may be a solution.
Who we are as a Team
Who we are as a Team
Before getting together:
Record two-three things you appreciate about each of your teammates. Examples:
Affirm the spiritual gifts / talents / contributions of each of your co-workers. How did they become evident to you? (give concrete examples)
What will you miss most about each person?
Write these on paper/make these affirmations into cards for your teammates to keep
During the get-together:
Gift your individual affirmations (cards/papers) to each other, concentrating on each member of the team in turn.
Brainstorm characteristics, experiences, and aspects about your team as a unit for which you are thankful. For example, how you —
complimented each other
helped each other
challenged each other
were used in each others’ lives
Discuss some of what you have learned because of your team relationships.
Create a collage together of your thanksgivings, affirmation statements, team learnings
Encourage everyone to take a picture of the collage
Gift the collage to the departing teammate (if they want to take it with them!)
Reflection Opportunity
What are your favorite memories of team experiences?
What were some of your low points as a team?
What victories – learnings – redemption have you seen coming out of those experiences?
Use these to spur on conversation during team closure!
Team Celebration Ideas
Team Celebration Ideas
Each team member shares one or more of his or her favorite memories of team experiences
Affirmation Bombardment – shower affirmations on the people leaving (and vice-versa)
Draw your team together on a large sheet of paper! Try to capture identifying characteristics of each teammate.
Thanksgiving – each person expresses thanks to one another (be as specific in your thanks as possible)
Praise and thanks to God – have a praise and worship service together, focusing on thanking God for your time together
Reconciliation (see: Peace Pursuit, and Section2. Making Peace) – begin by addressing issues / ruptures one on one. That which has affected multiple people needs to be addressed in each relationship. If we have missed the mark publicly, we need to find ways to apologize appropriately to those who were present. Wisdom and courage are needed; get outside help if necessary to do all you can to reconcile before departure.
Remember, each one of you may have different feelings concerning someone’s departure from the team, even if you discerned the departure together.
Allow for the variety of feelings.
ONE LAST MEAL TOGETHER
ONE LAST MEAL TOGETHER
Ideas for how to make the last team meal special:
Plan a “progressive dinner”, moving from home to home for different courses. (This is an American idea, and may not work as it stands in your context. But are there any variations that would make it fun for your team?)
Have each team member bring a recollection of a memory that has gone down in team “history” because it's so funny.
Develop a scrapbook for the individual or family leaving.
Prepare a skit that celebrates the person/couple/family who is leaving.
Give each other a small gift that represents what that person was, or did, for you.
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