SOLC RETREAT
November 4th-5th
Facilitators Lauren Miller, David
Keach, and Andrew Sharkey

Student Alliance for the Welfare of
Africa
This group came to us requesting help with
- Team Building
- Bonding
- Group and self improvement
- Patience
- Communication
- Recruitment
- Advertising

Schedule for retreat
• 5:45-6 introduction, food name game
• 6:45-7 energizers/review: shake eights, screamer,
name toss
• 7-8:45pm initiatives: group juggling, Human knot
• 8:45-9 ships and sailors and debrief of the night
• Next day 9:945 breakfast
• 9:45-10:00 energizers
• 10:00- 12:00 went over mission statement and how
they could use that to their benefit

Evaluations
• Half of members checked that SOLC was
extremely effective in meeting their groups
needs and the other half wrote very effective
• Eleven out of the fourteen members strongly
agreed that this SOLC event helped their
organization to develop into a stronger team.
• Nine members strongly agreed that SOLC
helped them in making progress towards their
goals.

Facilitator 1: Lauren
• Eight members of the group said she completely
connected with the group while six said very much
• Seven members stated that she was extremely
competent during the event while six said very
competent
• Eight group members said she was extremely
effective on maintaining a positive learning
environment
• Comments: great job, good energy, helpful, don’t be
so shy, fun but serious when needed

Facilitator 3 : David
• Eight members of the group said he completely
connected with the group while six said very much
• Six members stated that he was extremely
competent during the event while eight said very
competent
• Seven group members said he was extremely
effective on maintaining a positive learning
environment and seven said very effective
• Comments: good listener, very friendly, inviting,
open, outgoing, great suggestions

Overall comments
• Great work!
• Was a great experience
• We got to know each other better and got closer
• Very fun
• Loved this entire retreat
• We made our goals clear and learned solutions
to our group problems

Overall success
- Goals: Team Building, Bonding, Group and self
improvement, Patience, Communication, Recruitment,
Advertising
- As a result of the SOLC event nine members strongly
agreed that they made progress towards accomplishing
their goals and five members agreed.
- The comments were all positive and everyone seemed
to enjoy themselves
- Out of all the members everyone said either extremely
satisfied or very satisfied with how well their expectations
were met.

Things to work on in the future
• Working better together as facilitators,
sometimes we were on different pages
• Working on transitions from activities to other
things
• Debriefing- both as first time facilitators this
aspect of the retreat was a little difficult. We
used each other as resources however we need
to learn more about debriefing before facilitating
another retreat

Reflection
• As a first time facilitator I think overall the retreat went
well.
• We arrived late and had to rearrange the schedule but
this showed that we could be flexible and were able to
deal with change
• Doing the actual retreat was easier than I expected
especially since we had the schedule written up.
• One thing I liked about this group is that were all willing
to participate and were very fun.
• They were patient and that was very helpful.

Reflection continued
• For next time I will know to write every detail even
what I will be saying.
• For the debrief I was prepared but not fully. Next
time I will have everything for the debrief written out
and will ask for help ahead of time if I have questions
• I had a lot of fun and I am now very excited to lead
other retreats!