"Power Hour" Empowerment Sessions

Community On Demand Play Dates are empowerment sessions that use game-based learning tools, team-building exercises and hands-on manipulatives to help groups understand the value of their high-demand employability skills and the contributions they make to better their families, careers, teams and communities.

Play Dates consists of 1-2 hour sessions that opens with an ice-breaker that gets the entire room engaged. It is used to demonstrate the message that everyone has a talent, skill or gift that can add value to the mission of the team. Immediately following this activity, I organize the room into teams and present information to them that poses a problem they must solve only using the resources I provide to them. During this process, we go through 1-5 rounds to help teams build their resource pools, strategies and impact solutions. Game play ends when teams present their final strategies and determine a winner.

Game-Based Learning Tools Include (per person):
Community On Demand Card Deck - $29 ea
Community On Demand Skills Assessment Worksheets - $10 ea
Community On Demand Game Board - $10 ea
Hourly rate - $75/hr (per instructor; 1 for ever 30 ppl)

Deliverables: The audience walks away with a better perspective of the strengths, passions and capabilities of their peers, and a new way of using teamwork to develop detailed plans and calls to action.

Inspired by first responders, comic book heroes, and her military experience with the U.S. Army, Dana Jewel Harris created her "Do Better. Think Bigger!" Power of Perception motivational speaker series to bridge the communications gap between students, teachers, mentors and local nonprofits and businesses. Since 2008, she has been creating safe community engagement strategies using highly-interactive activities, games and service-learning projects that teach community stakeholders:

- How to Identify and explore local resources available within their community
- Economic and business development skills
- Project management, teamwork and job readiness skills
- Industry-recognized technical skills from a STEM++ Career Cluster
- How to create solutions and demonstrate effective leadership skills
- How to secure each badge in a digital badge collection

Our Do Better. Think Bigger! power hours are tutoring and training sessions that teach groups how to 1) identify socio-economic conditions that negatively impact their communities and 2) create innovative ideas and business solutions to address, reduce and/or eliminate them. Groups have the option to convert these sessions into service-learning projects and digital badge fundraisers to help sustain and/or rebuild their communities.

Ms. Harris has over 20 years of business development, logistics operations, and C-Level executive administration in the military, construction, entertainment, urban agriculture, non-profit management and real estate multi-housing sales industries. She was introduced to the acronym STEM while working with the GIS Emergency Preparedness Team at the Environmental Protection Agency in Atlanta, GA.

Ms. Harris has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration& Management from American Intercontinental University (Magna Cum Laude); Sigma Beta Delta International Business Honors Society

Need a microphone or lavaliere, podium and small table.
A stage would be preferred but not mandatory as long as everyone can see me.
Handouts would need to be distributed and I need the option to arrange tables in groups for project teams.
Pens or pencils for each participant