Student Leadership Retreats: Research-based Best Practices
Positive Leadership Development
Are budget limitations your concern when planning and scheduling student leadership retreats?
If so, you are possibly overlooking an option that can provide meaningful student leadership retreat experiences while allowing you to stay within your budget.
The good new is you don’t have to hire more people or bring in additional staff to hold a quality student leadership retreat.
Student-centered and facilitated retreats have been shown by research to help students develop as leaders.
At these retreats, students create and facilitate activities themselves and as a result come away with positive learning and leadership development experiences.
Nationally renowned authority on college student leadership experience, Darin Eich,Ph.D. gives you helpful tips, resources, and success stories for creating and facilitating a quality student leadership retreat that will be successful and budget friendly.
During this insightful, information-packed 90-minute seminar he:
- Provides you with ideas for creating a new retreat or enhancing an existing one.
- Shows you how to structure a retreat that emphasizes learning and relationships.
- Discusses how to facilitate a retreat without lectures while getting better results.
- Demonstrates how to implement successful retreat activities.
- Connects retreat practices with research on student leadership development.
- Helps you understand different characteristics of successful retreats.
- Explains how to improve retreat assessment and planning.
- Shows you how to create a variety of potential activities to use with students.
- You learn how to develop activities that you can use for a future retreat.
Who should view this seminar:
- Director of Student Affairs
- Director of Student Life
- Director of Student Organizations/Programs
- Director of Student Support Services
- Residence Hall Directors
- Student Organization/Program Advisors

Recorded: 1/29/2009
Running Time: 90 minutes
Video with PowerPoint
3 WAYS TO ORDER:
- Supplemental Materials
- PowerPoint Handouts
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