Sometimes what we’ve learned about effective presentation in our magic shows, we fail to carry over to our magic meetings. We know that playing music at least when our audience enters and exits the performance is a good thing. However,… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Learning Teams
Learning teams involve all audience members learning in teams different parts of the content and then becoming “instant experts” – teaching the part of the content they read/explored in exchange for the other teams sharing what they learned from their… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Make It Take It Ghost Stories
Download the zip file HERE and print out the templates – watching the instructional video too. You’ll be ready for a make-it-take-it meeting or section of a meeting using the printed templates and a glue stick to make and practice… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Uniquenesses
Much like a previous activity from this blog entitled Commonalities, this activity focuses on discovering something unique about each table team member that is NOT true of anyone else on the team. Obviously each person will have to make possible… Read More ›
Governance: Managing Fear White Paper
We know that trying new projects and initiatives is one way to keep a magic club fresh. However, fear of failure or criticism may hinder us as leaders in our ability to initiate that necessary change. Now in a form… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Envelopes On The Wall
How many total years of magic experience does your club membership possess? At some point, it might be beneficial to figure that out – announcing your total to the group. We found that sharing the total helped empower our club… Read More ›
Meeting Idea: Dot Voting
After completing a brainstorming activity as described in the previous post (Multiple Scribes), you might then want to vote on the ones from the list with the most support in the group. You could have them raise their hands. However,… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Multiple Scribes
When brainstorming ideas or concepts (i.e. What are some fund raising ideas we could do for our magic club?), it’s not unusual for the audience to call out items for the list quicker than the scribe in the front of… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: The Cube Opening
Click HERE to download a handout of the above picture or draw it on a piece of paper large enough for everyone in the meeting room to see and participate. You begin saying something like: “Our brains are going to… Read More ›
Governance: A Centralized Calendar
We finally gave in. We were having the leaders of various club programs unintentionally scheduling events on top of other events … so we went to a centralized club calendar towards the bottom of our club’s website homepage. Since our… Read More ›
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